Abstract (use academic language)
My project is about Mentos and Coke. I want to find out what happen if you put a Mentos (candy) into the soda. The procedure is to easy, all you got to do is place a tube in the soda. Next, you make sure that there's a camera man ready to take pictures of the experiment. Last, you put the mentos inside the tube and then take a few steps back so that you won't get wet. When Mentos was added to Coke, all of the gas went up and it became a geyser height that was really high that i saw. My results that all the carbon dioxide in the soda came up as soon as the mento went in. It will go up for 2 seconds then it will stop because the mento are turning smaller and everything is turning normal and it stop because if you put 1 mento it won't last long but if you put more than one then it will go high. This experiment did work the way I expected and it came out really good because the geyser went at a right height except trial 1 of Coca Cola.
Problem
If you put more mentos into the sodas,does it make it the geyser height higher?
Hypothesis
If I put a mento (candy) into the soda, then the geyser height will be higher.
Variables Controlled Variable- The same Geyser height in each soda Dependent Variable- Geyser Height (cm) Independent Variable- (Amount of) Soda Used (Isn't it type of soda?)
Materials
Tape
1 pack of Mentos (how many packs?)
Sodas (5 Diet Coke and 5 Coca Cola)
Test Tube (how big is the tube in diameter?)
Camera man
Notebook
Procedure
Take out the bottle cap out of the Diet Coke (which one?)
Place a tube in there and make sure it's a right one (how do you make sure it doesn't fall?)
Get one mento out of the pack
Place a mento into the tube and make sure it falls in there correctly (don't you have to make sure the mentos falls in correctly? Why do you run?)
Take a picture of the geyser height and then record it on your data table. (How about the camera man? What does he do?) (What data are you recording? How do you determine how high the geyser goes?)
(Add steps to repeat for the 2nd kind of soda and for 5 trials.)
Purpose (use 3rd person)
This thing that makes soda drinks bubbly is the carbon dioxide that is pumped in when they bottle the drink at the factory. None of them doesn't get released from the liquid until he pour it into a glass and drink it, some also gets released when you open the lid it up. This means that there is a whole lot of carbon dioxide gas just waiting to escape the liquid in the form of bubbles. This is why they add mentos to soda because it's a volcano eruption and he wants to see how did the experiment work.
History (too much of this looks pasted- cite sources; do not use brackets)
It is normally socially acceptable to play with your food, but in a instance of a coke and mento eruption, the entertainment value can throw that perception out of the window ( Tyler). Despite the experiment being shown and explained on a TV chat show in 1999 by physics student (Spencer Tyler). Coke and Mentos (candy) did not take off in popular culture until 2006 when two journalists, David Kestenbaum and Michelle Norris released a blog based on it. Within months video sharing website such as Youtube were packed in new videos of people trying the creation of a carbonate beverage-based explosion for themselves (source?).
After many tried efforts with a variety of mint (or even fruit-flavored mentos) and drinks (such as lemonade) in combination, it is regarded that the combination for a big explosion is to use diet coke and original Mint-flavoured Mentos. This formula provides the quickest reaction, and therefore the highest explosion, with the Guiness World Record height for an explosion measure at over 9 meters (with the aid of a nozzle) (Spencer). A testament to the popularity of the coke and mentos explosion is that some joke shops now selling mentos with the advertised purpose of causing explosion.
Process (This should be about explaining the science concepts behind how the project works, not how to conduct the procedure. Explain Nucleation, chemical reactions, etc.)
(Explain how chemical reaction & nucleation works) Dropping something into the Diet Coke speeds up this height process by both breaking the SurfaceTension(all glossary terms should be bolded) of the liquid and also allowing bubbles to form on the surface area of the Mentos. Mentos candy pieces are covered in tiny dimples (a bit like a golf ball), which dramatically increases the surface area and allows a huge amount of bubbles to form (geyser).
Application
People will want to this project because they want to see what happened in the experiment. They would probably go on the internet to see how people do this volcano eruption with coke and mentos. Many people will use there experiment for their Science Fair project and other will for fun. Many students will choose this project because it's really good how it's a volcano eruption, and there science fair group might win for the science fair project. Other will do it so that they could show their friends and how high the geyser height it went. That geyser will go up high and people will be surprise and excited.
Reflection
I learn how all of the gas came out when you put a mento in the test tube. The geyser taught me how a soda has a lot of gas in the bottle and how mento is really strong because it has all of the mint in it. It surprise me when the mento broke into pieces and all of it went into smaller things. After when it all broke into smaller pieces, all of the carbon dioxide came out and went shooting in the air. I confirm that how this experiment work
This could improved by measuring feet and not inches. Also how you have to make Two five trials and not one. The ideas for next project is will is how fast can you close the soda with the mento in it. I want to see if it could be fast or it explode when it's in your hand. That the idea for the next project.
Analysis
In my observation, all of the trials were high except Trial 1 Coca Cola. All the trials except Trial 1 didn't go the the same (explain using numbers). Trial 1 didn't work because the coca cola wasn't strong when the Mento went in the test tube. The others Trials were the same because they have the same cm. If you look on the graph you will see that Trial 1 Coca Cola is down by a cm to Trial 1 Diet Coke.
Conclusion
My Hypothesis was correct because the geyser of the soda went in certain height. There were some errors in this project because the geyser of the height didn't go right specify and one of the trials were low by one cm.The next idea with this project is to put a mento in the soda, close the cap and slam it on the ground to see what the height.I think this was a great project for me because all I had to do is put a mento in the soda and see whats the geyser height for each trial.
Glossary (be sure to use these ALL of words in the Process section of your report OR else remove! Bold these when used in text above; add parts of speech)
Activation Energy (n)- The energy that an atomic system must aquire before a process
Aspartame (n)- A sugar substitue that is 150-200 times as sweet and used in pop, sweeterners, and other food
Carbonate(n)- A salt of the anion typically form by reaction of carbon dioxide with bases
Carbon Dioxide(n)- Is gas made by burning fossils fuels and exhaling
Carbonate Water(n)- Water change with carbon dioxide
Catalyst(n)- A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itslef undergoing any permanent chemical change
Liquid(adj)- Having a consistency like that water or oil
Nucleation(v)- Having a nucelus or occuring in the nucelus
Potassium Benzoate(adj)- A food preservative the pervents bacteria to grow in food
Surface Tension(n)- The tension of the surface film a liquid caused by the attraction of the particles in the surface layer by the bulk of liquid
Works Cited (add a period after author; Title of article goes next, then date- see 1st one for example; put in ABC order; be sure to cite all of these source in your research report)
Rubric for 2f- deadline extended to 4/30
You will get Tuesday class time (4/30) to make any additional revisions.
Must use 3rd person AND in-text citations for Purpose, History, Process, & Applications paragraphs.
Pts. Earned
Pts. Possible
Abstract (Q1-2)
3.5
5
Purpose
3.5
5
History
3
5
Process
3
5
Applications (Formerly Future)
3
5
Reflection (about research AND lab)
3
5
Glossary
3.5
5
Works Cited
3
5
Total
25.5
40
Rubric for 5-6ab- deadline 5/3
You will get class time (4/30 & 5/2) to make additional revisions to your wikispace page.
My project is about Mentos and Coke. I want to find out what happen if you put a Mentos (candy) into the soda. The procedure is to easy, all you got to do is place a tube in the soda. Next, you make sure that there's a camera man ready to take pictures of the experiment. Last, you put the mentos inside the tube and then take a few steps back so that you won't get wet. When Mentos was added to Coke, all of the gas went up and it became a geyser height that was really high that i saw. My results that all the carbon dioxide in the soda came up as soon as the mento went in. It will go up for 2 seconds then it will stop because the mento are turning smaller and everything is turning normal and it stop because if you put 1 mento it won't last long but if you put more than one then it will go high. This experiment did work the way I expected and it came out really good because the geyser went at a right height except trial 1 of Coca Cola.
Problem
If you put more mentos into the sodas,does it make it the geyser height higher?
Hypothesis
If I put a mento (candy) into the soda, then the geyser height will be higher.
Variables
Controlled Variable- The same Geyser height in each soda
Dependent Variable- Geyser Height (cm)
Independent Variable- (Amount of) Soda Used (Isn't it type of soda?)
Materials
- Tape
- 1 pack of Mentos (how many packs?)
- Sodas (5 Diet Coke and 5 Coca Cola)
- Test Tube (how big is the tube in diameter?)
- Camera man
- Notebook
ProcedurePurpose (use 3rd person)
This thing that makes soda drinks bubbly is the carbon dioxide that is pumped in when they bottle the drink at the factory. None of them doesn't get released from the liquid until he pour it into a glass and drink it, some also gets released when you open the lid it up. This means that there is a whole lot of carbon dioxide gas just waiting to escape the liquid in the form of bubbles. This is why they add mentos to soda because it's a volcano eruption and he wants to see how did the experiment work.
History (too much of this looks pasted- cite sources; do not use brackets)
It is normally socially acceptable to play with your food, but in a instance of a coke and mento eruption, the entertainment value can throw that perception out of the window ( Tyler). Despite the experiment being shown and explained on a TV chat show in 1999 by physics student (Spencer Tyler). Coke and Mentos (candy) did not take off in popular culture until 2006 when two journalists, David Kestenbaum and Michelle Norris released a blog based on it. Within months video sharing website such as Youtube were packed in new videos of people trying the creation of a carbonate beverage-based explosion for themselves (source?).
After many tried efforts with a variety of mint (or even fruit-flavored mentos) and drinks (such as lemonade) in combination, it is regarded that the combination for a big explosion is to use diet coke and original Mint-flavoured Mentos. This formula provides the quickest reaction, and therefore the highest explosion, with the Guiness World Record height for an explosion measure at over 9 meters (with the aid of a nozzle) (Spencer). A testament to the popularity of the coke and mentos explosion is that some joke shops now selling mentos with the advertised purpose of causing explosion.
Process (This should be about explaining the science concepts behind how the project works, not how to conduct the procedure. Explain Nucleation, chemical reactions, etc.)
(Explain how chemical reaction & nucleation works)
Dropping something into the Diet Coke speeds up this height process by both breaking the Surface Tension(all glossary terms should be bolded) of the liquid and also allowing bubbles to form on the surface area of the Mentos. Mentos candy pieces are covered in tiny dimples (a bit like a golf ball), which dramatically increases the surface area and allows a huge amount of bubbles to form (geyser).
Application
People will want to this project because they want to see what happened in the experiment. They would probably go on the internet to see how people do this volcano eruption with coke and mentos. Many people will use there experiment for their Science Fair project and other will for fun. Many students will choose this project because it's really good how it's a volcano eruption, and there science fair group might win for the science fair project. Other will do it so that they could show their friends and how high the geyser height it went. That geyser will go up high and people will be surprise and excited.
Reflection
I learn how all of the gas came out when you put a mento in the test tube. The geyser taught me how a soda has a lot of gas in the bottle and how mento is really strong because it has all of the mint in it. It surprise me when the mento broke into pieces and all of it went into smaller things. After when it all broke into smaller pieces, all of the carbon dioxide came out and went shooting in the air. I confirm that how this experiment work
This could improved by measuring feet and not inches. Also how you have to make Two five trials and not one. The ideas for next project is will is how fast can you close the soda with the mento in it. I want to see if it could be fast or it explode when it's in your hand. That the idea for the next project.
Analysis
In my observation, all of the trials were high except Trial 1 Coca Cola. All the trials except Trial 1 didn't go the the same (explain using numbers). Trial 1 didn't work because the coca cola wasn't strong when the Mento went in the test tube. The others Trials were the same because they have the same cm. If you look on the graph you will see that Trial 1 Coca Cola is down by a cm to Trial 1 Diet Coke.
Conclusion
My Hypothesis was correct because the geyser of the soda went in certain height. There were some errors in this project because the geyser of the height didn't go right specify and one of the trials were low by one cm.The next idea with this project is to put a mento in the soda, close the cap and slam it on the ground to see what the height.I think this was a great project for me because all I had to do is put a mento in the soda and see whats the geyser height for each trial.
Glossary (be sure to use these ALL of words in the Process section of your report OR else remove! Bold these when used in text above; add parts of speech)
Works Cited (add a period after author; Title of article goes next, then date- see 1st one for example; put in ABC order; be sure to cite all of these source in your research report)
Muir, Hazel. "Science of Mentos-Diet Coke explosions explained." 2008. New Scientist. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14114-science-of-mentosdiet-coke-explosions-explained.html
Bova, Michelle."How Things Work."2007.The Tartan.http://thetartan.org/2007/2/19/scitech/how
Anne,Marie,Helemstine"How to make a Mentos & Diet Soda Chemical Volcano Eruption."2013.Education Chemistry.http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistryhowtoguide/ht/mentos.htm
Andrew,Rader,Studios."Chem4kids."2012.Andrew Rader Studios.http://www.chem4kids.com/files/react_intro.html (Author name is at the bottom of the web page)
Steve,Spangler."Making Science Fun."2013.Steve Spangler Science.http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000109 (incompete)
Rubric for 2e.
Rubric for 2f- deadline extended to 4/30
You will get Tuesday class time (4/30) to make any additional revisions.
Must use 3rd person AND in-text citations for Purpose, History, Process, & Applications paragraphs.
Rubric for 5-6ab- deadline 5/3
You will get class time (4/30 & 5/2) to make additional revisions to your wikispace page.