Thanks soooo much for your question Joshua McDonald!! Josh has since moved off to school but the children's curiosity to find out continues to buzz!!
Last week Judy managed to find clips about Salt Farms on You Tube and then managed to stumble across a step-by-step movie on how to extract the salt from the water....How cool is that!!
Kylie bought in some sea water on Tuesday and posed a question..."How do you think we will get the salt out of the water?"
Matthew Mansell thought it would be really easy because we could just pick it out with our fingers, but we tried that ... didn't work.
We then referred back to the clip... We had to boil it for 1 hour!! Whoa, that was a long time!!
But, an hour went by, and nothing. We had alot less water - (and we learnt a new word, EVAPORATION) but no salt.
Kylie put it on the range and continued to cook it for another whole hour!! What we found in the bottom of the pot was amazing...lots and lots of chystalysed salt!! Wow how amazing is that!!
After scraping it onto a tray, each child had a taste test...Hmmmm, pretty good actually!!
Another question was asked..."What are we going to do with the salt?"
Caitlin was VERY quick to suggest we put it on some hot chips, because that is what she likes to do with salt at home. Great suggestion Caitlin.
Friday came along and we had potato, parsnip AND kumara chips to prepare, cook and eat. Thanks to all my wonderful helpers today...peeling and chopping all those vegetables was pretty hard work we found out!! Ryan Fitchett deserves a special mention because he persevered and managed to cut ALL the potato chips up for us!! Thanks Ryan :)
I must say, the chips were so good...and the Sea Salt made them taste delicious, what a lovely treat for a Friday and a great way to wrap up the very salty experiment...BUT, we STILL aren't sure how the salt GETS INTO the sea...Does anyone have any ideas? Leave us a comment...We would love to hear from you.
Kylie, Judy and Christina
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