Activity (Hands-On)Grades 6 - 7

Maximum Mentos Fountain

Materials List

Each group needs:

several 2-liter bottles of Diet Coke®
2 packages of Mentos® candy
1 Mentos® fountain, such as a "geyser loading tube" with multiple nozzles at http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/geyser-tube-fountain-fan-run.html
Mentos Fountain Worksheet (PDF), one per student
(optional) height-o-meter; learn about them at http://lhsgems.org/GEM306.html, including a design for a simple cardboard clinometer

For the entire class to share: