Week 8

26/3
This week i had to edit my method for my experiment and  carry out the experiments. After carrying out the experiments fro each flavour, quality and brand of chocolate i came up with using a results table to put my results in. It was very easy to record my results using a table because it didn't take up time to draw up and was easy to write results in.

The mind-map below is an up date of my mind-map in my earlier blogs.

Below is two results tables that I constructed for my results, one for the cooking chocolate and the other for the normal chocolate, I had two attempts to this experiment, the results we're fairly close to each other.

Results-

Cooking chocolate:

Flavour and brand of chocolate	Time (Minutes and attempt 1	Seconds) attempt 2
White chocolate (cadbury)	1min 52secs	1min 30secs
White chocolate (homebrand)	3mins 29secs	3mins 6secs
Dark chocolate (cadbury)	2mins 43secs	2mins 58secs
Dark chocolate (homebrand)	2mins 33secs	2mins 16secs
Milk chocolate (cadbury)	3mins 20secs	3mins 45secs
Milk chocolate (homebrand)	2mins 29secs	2mins 7secs

Normal chocolate:

Flavour and brand of chocolate	Time (Minutes and attempt 1	Seconds) attempt 2
White chocolate (cadbury)	2mins 38secs	2mins 26secs
White chocolate (homebrand)	3mins 11secs	3mins 29secs
Dark chocolate (cadbury)	1min 28secs	1mins 13secs
Dark chocolate (homebrand)	1min 52secs	2mins 7secs
Milk chocolate (cadbury)	2mins 51 secs	2mins 47secs
Milk chocolate (homebrand)	2mins 48secs	2mins 36secs

Week 7

20/3
This week i had to design my experiment, organise the equipment and set the controls for my experiment. I also had to identify the dependent and independent variables.
These included:
Dependent- time it takes for the chocolate to melt
independent- the quality of the chocolate (brand and flavour)
controls- amount of chocolate and temperature of the water (boiling point/100 degrees celsius)

The aim of my experiment is to find out what type (brand and flavour) of chocolate melts the fastest at boiling point.

Equipment: thermometer, tooth pick, stopwatch, Bain marie (a pot of water and bowl can be used if a Bain marie can not be used) and a stove.

I will be taking photos to show that I conducted my experiment and will being using a table to collect my results.

Some safety precautions that I had to be aware of were:

-being very carful around a hot stove and a pot of boiling water

-being carful not to burn myself when testing if the chocolate is melted using a toothpick

-being carful not to burn myself when testing the temperature of the water before putting the chocolate on 

Week 6

12/3
I had many ideas about the Science Research Project this week. I was highly interested in doing a experiments on chocolate. So i came up with doing an experiment on 'The quality of chocolate affects its melting time - comparative study of melting times of various chocolates'.

The mind map below shows a brief outline of the variables that are involved in this experiment, it also includes the various types of chocolate i will be using.

Week 5

9/3
Today I created a mind-map using Bubbl.us and also created a google account for my blogger.com. I came up with many ideas for my SRP, but i was highly interested in doing experiments on chocolate.

The mind-map below shows what i got up to.