Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Gargantuan Gummy Bears


Macy, Ginger, and Jamaine are weighing their gummy bear and seeing how much grams their gummy bear is. They want to make sure that each side is equal!
Max is also weighing his gummy bear. In the left bucket there is 3 grams in it and in the right bucket there is 1 gummy bear. It looks like it is even. Now he is ready for the next task with his buddies!
Henry is now weighing how much his gummy bear. He is almost finished weighing his bear. There is 3 grams in his bucket. Henry is ready for the next step!
Now every group fills there cups with water. 2 cups get filled with cold water and the other cup gets filled with warm water. Each group gets 3 pieces of tape and writes the label on it so they don't get mixed up. Then everyone makes their hypotheses...what they think is going to happen!
Every group gets 3 gummy bears and then they drop 1 gummy bear in each cup. What is going to happen in 4 hours?
Rhyane is making his hypotheses. He is talking to his group to see what THEY think is going to happen. After 4 hours we looked inside our cups and found out the results. Here are the observations we made:

The bear in the cold water expanded to 2 times it's normal size. It feels squishy and slimy like jello!  The bear in the warm water dissolved! A little bit of the gummy bear is left with the color fading around it. the gummy bear in the salty water got bigger than it's normal size but not as big as the bear in the cold water. Small salt crystals or bubbles were all around the bear.

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