Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment

Alexie has recently watched Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph. One of the scenes involves some Mentos candies dropping into a lake of diet coke resulting in a huge volcano-like explosion. It was a hilarious scene, but she wondered if it could actually happen.

So we set out to see if it was possible.

Our first attempt didn’t quite go as we planned.

But it was a great lesson in failure.

Failure can be a great lesson. This time it gave us a chance to try again, revise how we dropped the mentos in and learn from our mistakes. Don’t let failure be a stumbling block to learning. It can actually be a great teacher.