T2+Explanation

__Thursday 2nd June 2011__

__//Kitchen Chaos//__

__//Why does vinegar and baking soda react in a fizz?//__

Results:

Baking soda and vinegar are ingredients we use in a lot of ways not just for baking food but also for science experiments, kids use these useful products for lots of different reactions. One of the ways kids use it, is to make the really popular overflowing eruptive volcano.

Vinegar contains acitic acid, baking soda is a sodium bicarbonate/ alkali. When sodium bicarbonate mixes with the vinegar they react together to make sodium Acetate. The fizz is created with the formation of carbon dioxide gas. This is an acid base reaction.

**My Learning Targets!**

**My next step is: Define the topic in the introduction and write a conclusion**

**I will achieve this by: define what the topic is about use research to help me do this.** **Write a conclusion that sums up the explanation and includes technical and key words.**

**Date achieved/signed: Miss Stovold**

LI Identify key words/structure of explanatory text

SC Introduction - definition of the topic that you are writing about -describe the topic explanation - how something works or why something happens conclusion technical words key words