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Investigate
1. Obtain one 50 mL beaker for your group. Make sure that it is clean and dry.
2. Obtain three chocolate chips for each person in your group from the teacher.
3. Write a complete list of the properties of the chocolate chips.
(YOU MAY EAT ONE OF THE CHOCOLATE CHIPS!) Be sure to include taste in your list.

Everyone should place their remaining chocolate chips into the 50mL beaker.

5. After this, set the beaker on the wire mesh on the ring stand. Each person in your group should have
their own wooden splint.
6. Raise your hand and have your teacher light your alcohol burner.
BE SURE THAT EVERYONE IN YOUR GROUP IS WEARING THEIR GOGGLES!!!
7. Heat the beaker just until the chocolate chips melt. You will need to stir the chocolate chips with one
of the wooden splints. As soon as the chocolate chips melt, blow out the alcohol burner and place the
cap back on it.
Be careful of the chocolateIT IS HOT!!!
8. Each person should use their craft stick to obtain some of the chocolate to observe and taste.
9. Write a complete list of the properties of the melted chocolate. Don't forget taste!

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10. Using the list of properties in the previous question, fill in Table 5. List the properties of the
chocolate that changed after melting and the properties that stayed the same.
Table 5
Properties Of The Chocolate Chips That
Changed After Melting

Properties Of The Chocolate Chips That Stayed

The Same After Melting

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Create Whats the big idea?
Write your answers in complete sentences.
Using all of the previous tables you have filled out, answer the following questions.
1. In Table 6, use the following spaces on the left to list all of the properties that changed after the
paper was torn, the sugar cube was crushed, the sugar was dissolved, and the chocolate was melted. Use
the spaces on the right to list all of the properties that stayed the same. (HINT: Try to focus on the ones
that all of the explorations had in common.)
Table 6
Properties That Changed

Properties That Stayed The Same

2. What kinds of properties changed every time? Describe them in as much detail as you can.

3. What do these properties have in common? (What do all of these properties describe?)

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4. What kind of properties are these? (What do we call these kinds of properties?)

5. So far, we have been discussing things that did change. There is one thing that did not change in any
investigation. What is that thing?

6. When describing what an object is made of, what term do we use?

7. What name is given to the types of changes that occurred in all of the explorations?

8. Using all of the information that you have obtained in this investigation, make a general statement
about the types of changes you described in the previous question. (Give examples to support your
answer by describing the types of things that did change and the types of things that did not change.)

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