Liquid #1

How do we become scientists?  This driving question has been fueling our project.  Last week I brought out an apple and asked the children to forget what they knew about it.  "Pretend you don't know what this thing is.  You're a scientist and you want to investigate.  What can we discover about it?"  We then used our 5 senses to describe it.  It was hard to forget that deep down we knew what it was.  So I figured I'd put their scientific skills to the test.

I brought out a jar of a mystery substance.  Immediately the children wanted to guess what it was.  I told them I would not be telling them the name of it, because I wanted them to come up with their own thinking.  This was the first of four jars I would be bringing in.  

What is it?

The children used their senses to understand this liquid.  

Here were some of our ideas:  

It looks like yellow, applesauce, apple juice, water, golden, and vinegar.

It sounds like nothing, a drain, zombies, and a ghost.

It smells like olive oil, plants, cinnamon, playdoh, 16 year old cake, and stinky. 

It feels like slippery, water, wet, sticky, smooth, and like a baby.

I wonder if you adults have a guess?  Don't tell!