Monday 7 December 2015

Snack time

Year 8 are doing am experiement to see how much energy they can collect from certain snack foods like crisps, wotsits and pringles
 The amount of water was measured
 its temperature before and after were noted
Carful measuring gives accuracy 
 The burning food gives the water energy
The snack needs to be weighed 
 The burning snack raises the temperature of the water
so the temperature needs to be taken before and after the experiment 
 Reading the scale very carefully
and resetting the equipment in between 
Setting it all very carefully 
Then choose a new snack food 
 and repeat the process
 until all of them have been done
Which snack food contains the most energy 
 trying to catch all of the heat
and resetting the equipment each time
 The snack with the most energy is ...................