Turn a bottle, balloon, and household ingredients into a full engineering-design challenge! Students test how different amounts of baking soda affect CO₂ gas production and balloon lift. The lab emphasizes variables, fair testing, repeated trials, data collection, graphing, and CER writing—perfect for any science class or STEM design days. What Students DoIdentify independent, dependent, and controlled variables Write a testable hypothesis predicting optimal reactant ratioConduct trials at five