Essential Question: How can we calculate the number of calories in the food we eat and make better dietary decisions using this data?
Lesson Summary: In a two day lab students experimented with marshmallows, cheese doodles, goldfish, popcorn, and potato chips to find the number of calories in each food type.
To measure the number of calories students recorded the change in temperature of the water in the calorimeter and the change in mass of the burned food. Scholars then used this data to calculate an estimate of kilocalories per gram for each food.
Lesson Summary: In a two day lab students experimented with marshmallows, cheese doodles, goldfish, popcorn, and potato chips to find the number of calories in each food type.
To measure the number of calories students recorded the change in temperature of the water in the calorimeter and the change in mass of the burned food. Scholars then used this data to calculate an estimate of kilocalories per gram for each food.
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