Science experiment report
This term our topic is food
in Upper Primary. So far we have been looking up foods from different places in
the world. We’ve also been looking at labels on food packaging and learning
about nutrition and the human body. For homework we each got given a food area
like fat and vitamins. Then we had to make a poster about it.
On Wednesday 3rd December
we went into Mrs Rose’s science lab. We were doing a science experiment on how
many calories are in the food.
Mrs Rose, who is our science
teacher, kindly let us into her science lab to burn some food for our food
topic. She told us what we needed to get and lots of other stuff. She gave us
safety instructions like how to light the Bunsen burner. We burnt 3 types of
food (e.g. spaghetti, prawn crackers etc.) to find out how much energy was in
the food. We burnt the food to see how much the temperature of the water in the
test tube rose. We recorded it on our result tables to find out what food had
the most energy.
The
burning food made a lot of smoke which set off the fire alarm twice in five
minutes. We didn’t get our final results properly because of the fire alarm
going off.
We
thought it was fun and we learned how to measure energy in calories without
using the label. We learned how to set up and use equipment safely.
We
would like to thank Mrs Rose for letting us use the science lab.
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