Bendy Potatoes

In today’s experiment we have one of our volunteers, Tiffany, show us how to make some bendy potatoes to learn about the process of osmosis. Osmosis is the movement of a solvent from an area of low solute concentration to an area of high solute concentration. Since potato cells have lower solute concentrations than salted or sugared water, water from the cells leave, causing the cells to shrink and the potato to become bendy. Osmosis is also the process which plants use to gather water from the soil. For this experiment you’ll need a small or medium potato, a knife (adult supervision may be needed), a cutting board, water, salt, sugar, measuring cups and spoons, and a pen and sticky notes. You can skip ahead to 0:31 to jump straight to the experiment! Our links: ► Pueblo Science Website: https://puebloscience.org ► Donate to Pueblo Science to help make science accessible: https://puebloscience.org/donate-now/ ► Order our “Around the World Science” E-book: https://puebloscience.org/ebook/ ► Gift our E-book to a child: https://puebloscience.org/gift-an-ebook/ You can also find Pueblo Science on: ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PuebloScience ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/puebloscience/ ► Tiktok: www.tiktok.com/@puebloscience Pueblo Science is a Toronto-based charity dedicated to advancing science education and developing alternative teaching kits that are engaging and fun for children, while still being inexpensive, and can be locally reproduced by science educators in underserved communities around the world. This video was made with the support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Learn more at: https://www.otf.ca/ #charity #community #kidscience #education #science #project #DIY #stem #students #sciencevideo #experiment #scienceexperiment #scienceathome #experimentsforkids #craftsforkids #learnathome #learning #steam #scientists #handsonlearning #scienceeducation #puebloscience #chemistry #biology #physics #mathematics #psychology #scienceliteracy #accessibility #accessibleeducation #accessiblescience