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What's in a Graph?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
How many yellow Skittles® come in a fun-size package? Use candy color data to construct a bar graph and a pie chart. Pupils analyze bar graphs of real-life data on the Texas and Massachusetts populations. As an assessment at the end of...
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Valentine Candy Count

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Here is an imaginative take on a classic lesson! Young scholars discover what color Valentine Candy is found more often than any other in a standard bag of Valentine Conversation Hearts. They observe, predict, sort, and classify the data...
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Rock Candy Crystals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners discover how rocks are created.  In this rock formation lesson, students investigate saturation, evaporation, and phase changes in geology.  Learners create rock candy from skewers, string, boiling water and sugar.
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Atomic Candy

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Mmmmm! Radioactive "candium!" Nuclear physics or chemistry classes use M&M'S® to demonstrate the process of radioactive decay. Individuals pour out a bag of candies and record the number that fall M-side-up to represent the number of...
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Growing Rock Candy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe the growth of rock candy. In this crystal growth lesson, students make rock candy and measure the crystal growth over five days.
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5 Sense Bear

For Teachers Pre-K
Students become familiar with their five senses through the creation of a sense bear.  In this five senses lesson, students create a bear and add cinnamon and a candy cane to the bear.  Students use their five senses with this bear...
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Kenan Fellows

Half-Life

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Scholars shake their way to understanding half-life with the help of candy. They observe and record which side candy lands on to graph the exponential decay in the fifth lesson of seven integrating chemistry and algebra. Combining...
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Areology: The Study of Mars

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use Oreo candy bars to explore how surface core samples call tell people about the history and make-up of Mars.
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Texas State Energy Conservation Office

Investigation: Building a Parabolic-Trough Collector

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Amateurs of alternative energy build a mini parabolic-trough solar energy collector and use it to heat water. Temperature is recorded over a three-minute period and the data is graphed and analyzed. Note that in order to paint aquarium...
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Mr. Funny Bones Math

For Students K - 1st
In this Mr. Funny Bones math worksheet, learners count the total number of candy bones, sort them into five categories, and graph the number of each kind. Students graph five groups of bones.
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Teach Engineering

Exploring Variables While Testing and Improving Mint-Mobiles (for High School)

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
Mint candies are good for more than just one's breath. Using basic materials such as mint candies, straws, index cards, and Popsicle sticks, scholars create race cars that meet a given budget as well as design constraints. They perform...
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Mars Landing Site

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students, through the use of candy bars at room temperature, explore the problems selecting a landing site on Mars.
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Inherited Traits

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students work with a partner to complete an inventory of their traits and compare and discuss their unique qualities. In this biology lesson, students determine percentages for the frequency of observed traits of classmates, compile the...
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A Tasty Solution

For Students 7th - 9th
In this solutions worksheet, students complete a three step procedure and record the dissolving time of candy. Using their data they create a graph and answer 4 analysis questions.
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Exponential Decay

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Young scholars study exponential decay and its application to radiocarbon dating. In this exponential decay lesson, students use candy to model the time it takes for something to decay. Young scholars also graph the data they collect and...
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Collect Data Using a Transect Line

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners learn about transect lines through a study of marine debris.  In this marine debris lesson, students calculate the items on a transect line and graph them.  Learners complete a category worksheet.
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I Can't Take the Pressure!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the concept of air pressure. Using candy or cookie wafers to model how air pressure changes with altitude, they conduct an aluminum can crushing experiment, compare the magnitude to gravitational force per unit area,...
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What's the Fizz Factor

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students as a class create a fountain using both coke soda, and mentos candy. In this science lesson, students test which combination of coke and mentos products produce the tallest fountain. Students use the scientific method to track...
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A Recipe for Air

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a pie graph using M&Ms to demonstrate the composition of air. They label each section of the graph, and list the fractions from largest to smallest.
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Virginia Department of Education

Average Atomic Masses

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Facilitate learning by using small objects to teach the principles of atomic mass in your science class. Pupils determine the average mass of varying beans as they perform a series of competitive experiments. They gather data and...
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Flying Through the Solar System

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a model of the solar system out of candy. They write a book about their travels through the Solar System, beginning at age ten and reaching Pluto at age seventy.
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Solids and Water

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate mixtures made of water and familiar solid materials. They observe and discuss the changes that occur immediately and set the mixtures aside for a day. Finally, students observe the mixtures, note changes, and graph...
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Radioactive Decay/Half Life

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students demonstrate radioactive decay using candy corns. In this Physics lesson, students make predictions, collect data and form conclusions about patterns in radioactive decay.
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Survival of the Fittest

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners explore plant needs and growth. In this plant science lesson plan, students use a cereal box to complete a plant growth graph activity.

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