Thursday, December 8, 2011

The mysteries of popcorn...


Today we will begin our investigation on popcorn and which brand produces the most popped kernels.  Hopefully we will make out better than the chef ; o )

*Update on our popcorn investigation:  We took three popular brands of microwavable popcorn and made a prediction as to which brand we thought would produce the most popped kernels.  Then we popped the corn and separated the popped kernels from the un-popped kernels.  Boy were we surprised to see which brand had almost half its contents not pop!  We learned the science behind what  makes a kernel pop as well as the two shapes of popcorn types.  Today we will continue by creating glogs (interactive on-line posters) to show what we learned.

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