TCPS Science

Mixing water and cornstarch makes the non-Newtonian substance known as oobleck.  Students in all grades loved exploring the properties of it so much that they created Odes to Oobleck.  These were read or performed for the class with a selection posted below.  Check back soon for more.

Ode to Oobleck (to the tune of Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer) by M., grade 6

You know silly putty, paint, clay, and bouncy balls

Crayons, and markers, and tinker toys, and lighters

But do you know the most fun non-Newtonian substance of all?

Oobleck the messy batter (batter), how we love you so.

We love how you smell (smell) very much like bad milk.

Almost everything about you (about you) is fun in some sort of way.

From your white color (color) to your silky texture

Your thick and thin smooth like batter, tough and also watery

But when it’s time to wash you off, we do it all over again!

Oh oobleck, we love you so!

 

Ode to Oobleck by C., grade 6

When I rub my hands through your silky, white substance I feel a batter that is wacky. You are messy and fun, and crumbly when you go from powdery to gloppy, but white and smooth.  I don’t like your texturing once you are dry and crusty, but I like how you can go thick to thin, when speeding up or slowing down the way I move my hands.  You smell like spoiled milk and look like it too, but most of all I like the way you act like goo.

 Oobleck by R., grade 6

A powder

smooth to the touch

and white

when mixed

with water

it morphs

into a

smooth

silky

mixture

and then

dies

quickly

in my hands.

 

Oobleck Oh Oobleck by C., grade 6

Just like its name,

constantly changing

never the same.

It’s silky, it’s milky, it’s smooth, and it’s hard.

It’s somewhat like a batter though not appetizing.

It could make me feel like my insides were rising.

Oobleck oh Oobleck oh

Oobleck oh Oobleck

 

Ode to Oobleck by T., grade 8

It’s ooey and gooey

It’s chunky and bunchy

Slimy and creamy

It’s hard to hold

It’s grimy and slimy

It’s icky and sticky

Oobleck, oobleck everywhere

On the table and on the chair

On my clothes and in my hair

Oobleck, oobleck everywhere

It’s fun to play with

With one or two

The only thing is

It makes a mess on you.

 

Ode to Oobleck by T., grade 8

Oobleck is chunky,

It’s white and it oozes.

It’s sticky and wet,

And hard to hold.

It’s fun when it’s wet,

While it oozes and gooses.

It gets hard when you squeeze it,

And soft when it sits.

Oobleck is slimy,

Creamy and light.

It glazes your hands,

And give you delight.

Oobleck is gooey,

And it taste kind of bad.

But I promise you this,

It’s totally rad.

Touching Oobleck is fun,

But making it is too.

‘Cus everything gets wet,

and your hands get covered in goo.

 

Oobleck by C., grade 8

Mushy gushy, chunky funky

Hard to hold and fold.

It’s sticky icky silky milky

It’s fun in the sun.

Powder just like clam chowder

Dry just like the sky

Sand but in it in my hand

It’s like bleach but at the beach

Ooze hard to choose

Hold it tight with a hint of fight

Rubbery, pretty dang flubbery

We’re writing an ode your gonna have to break the code

Goobery and oobery

Now to clean your hands and wash all away

Oobleck has to go today.

 

Oobleck Ode by E., grade 8

Quicksand upon your hand. She likes to watch the sun dry your skin. Rubbery, yet soft

He’s like a jelly raindrop-extremely hard to pin. Silky and smooth, but just when you think you’ve got him, he disappears, slips through your fingertips. Always hard to hold, it’s nothing new though.  He seems to always be so cold.  He’s like a vanishing cloud, white like liquid, always out of reach, until you squeeze his silky skin tight and for a while he stays.  Until like liquid, a white crying cloud he runs so far away.

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