Skittles Dissolving Experiment

Materials

Small clear bowl or dish
Skittles
Water

For this experiment, I first had each of the students make a prediction as to what they thought would happen to the Skittles. Next, I allowed each student to choose his or her own Skittle and asked them to drop it into the bowl at the same time. Then, they watched as the colors slowly began to dissolve off the Skittle. (I added a little more water after the Skittles were placed in to speed up the process). Finally, the students drew a picture of what they saw and wrote a few sentences to explain their drawings. 

The longer the Skittles stayed in the bowl to dissolve, the more changes occurred.

Here are some of the observations from the students at Drexel Neumann Academy: