💡Save these directions and lesson for later What you need: • 🧪beaker • 🧪Filter paper • 🧪Washable marker • 🧪Tape • 🧪Water What you do: • 🔹Cut filter paper into rectangular strips • 🔹Draw a small dot with the black marker • 🔹Tape the strip to the stir rod and set across the top of the beaker • 🔹Pour the water into the beaker until it just touches the bottom of the paper strip. • 🔹When the water nears the top of the paper, remove the strip from the beaker and let it dry lying flat. 🚀Science Lesson • As the water travels up the paper strip, it dissolves the ink and pulls it up the paper. Black ink is a mixture of several different pigments or coloring agents. Some pigments dissolve in water more easily and are pulled with the water farther up the paper. Others are