Smore's no more!
Food and Nutrition
Alexander Jacobson
Arlo Merline
- Grade:
- 5
- Teacher:
- Theresa Barry
How will varied brands of marshmallows and their ingredients effect how they react to being in a microwave for a certain amount of time? Marshmallows with different ingredients did react differently than marshmallows that had mostly the same ingredients.
What a fun project! Nice job laying out all of the results and designing the experiment with repeat tests and averaging the results. I’m curious if there is anything you would do differently if you were to run this experiment again? Why do you think the Overjoyed marshmallow behaved differently? Overall, great project!
Good reference page and nice use of charts. To continue your experiments, you could find a marshmallow recipe to make your own, then increase one ingredient in increments, to see what that ingredient does for the recipe success. (some ingredients will make it stick together, others will make it loft or rise, others contribute to texture, etc.)
Cool project. You had a clear question too. I like that you tested five marshmallow brands, and did three trials so you could find an average. Your data and conclusion were easy to understand.