Kids Zone: Hands on Chemistry for Kids

• Hosted by ACS President Judith C. Giordan
• 10am-1pm, Children’s Creativity Museum, 221 4^th St., San Francisco, Free
• Learn more and register

ACS Kids Zones are free public events featuring facilitator-supported activities based on the theme for children and their families. ACS members, including local chemists, chemistry students, and volunteer chemists of the ACS Committee on Community Activities support interactive investigations, so children can learn with actual chemists.

ACS Fall 2023 Kids Zone

On Saturday, August 12th, ACS President Judith C. Giordan will host a free public event at San Francisco’s Children’s Creativity Museum. Participants will enjoy performing hands-on science activities, the opportunity to meet chemists, and take-home educational giveaways!

For this event, we will present the following activities:

• Cloudy with a Chance of Clear Color (PDF): Add an acid-base indicator to milk of magnesia. Then add citric acid for dramatic color changes that cycle through a few times until the cloudiness disappears!
• Make-and-Take Lotion (PDF): It’s a mixture; it’s a suspension, it’s an emulsion; it’s lotion! Science has the solution to DIY lotion.
• Connect with Slime (PDF): Your body makes a viscous liquid like slime to get the germs out of your nose. Make a model of slime to take home!
• Fruit Juice Sleuth (PDF): Add drops of juice to a solution of starch and iodine to find out which beverage contains more vitamin C.
• Secret Science of Self-Inflating Balloon (PDF): Self-inflating balloons contain the same ingredients that make fizzy medicines fizz. Feel and hear this cool chemical reaction!

If you are a chemist and will be in the San Francisco area on August 12, we invite you to join us as a volunteer demonstrator for hands-on activities.