Burning Down!

Hello readers, 

In school we have been doing science experiments to gain knowledge on science terms and to learn how to make graphs and other presentations to show our results.  In literacy we have done an experiment and written an explanation of the science behind it. 

Here's my explanation of the Tea Bag Rocket:

Tea Rocket Explanation

Launching an empty tea bag shows the power of density differences and combining gasses.  

While this experiment is cool to do it also has some amazing science behind it.

For this experiment you need a tea bag (with string), foil, and a lighter.

Cut the teabag at the top and empty the contents.

 Stand the bag up on the foil, it should look like a cylinder shape:

Carefully grab the lighter and light each side of the top of the cylinder.  The fire and the hot air will burn down the cylinder and collide with the cold air, the

different molecules hitting each other, causing it to fly up with the combining cold air going into the tube and the hot air from the flame.  The rapid speed of the molecules hitting each other causes the carbon (the burning tea bag) to fly up.

This traps the air inside the cylinder, it is now becoming lighter than the air

itself.  When the fire reaches the bottom if flies up into the air creating the magical effect of levitation.

I think that next time I would focus on the science behind it more than the method but I like the way I did the diagrams. I have learnt about the different gasses and I am very interested to learn more. Would you like to do this experiment? What do you think I could do better? Please reply in the comments