Strong Sugar Science: Developing an Experiment to Find the Relationship Among Heat, Sugar Structure, and Tensile Strength for Candy

by: Sarah Reeves Young

This experiment uses the scientific method skills in a guided inquiry of sugar structure for different classes of candy. The lab is structured to help students use their problem-solving skills to create an experiment that relates sugar structure to strength. The experiment asks students to create a hypothesis, materials list, procedure, and data table to support their inquiry. Students then run the three trials and graph their data to determine the relationship between sugar structure and strength. The conclusion asks students to focus not only on their data but also on what they would do differently next time.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 4/30/2011Stock # PB290X_15

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