SCIENCE LAB REPORT

Growing Crystals

macy
01.15.2016
5TH GRADE SCIENCE

INTRODUCTION
You may know Sugar Crystals by their other name, rock candy, or perhaps by their most common

adjective, delicious! These take a little longer than the Needle Crystals to build, but they are easy
enough to do and their taste is well worth the wait! This project will let you create and grow your own
crystals. Throughout the experiment you will be responsible for taking notes and picture to track
your crystals growth.

HYPOTHESIS
I think that my rock candy will turn out good.It will take a long time for it to be done
shaping.

MATERIALS
1. Sugar
2. koolaid
3. water
4. pots and pans
5. glass containers.
6. stirring sticks
7. bamboo sticks
8. Food coloring
9. manila tag
10.

PROCEDURE
1. Make a top for your jar with a small hole in the center.
2. Place the skewer inside the hole and clip it or tape it so it can hang into your jar
without touching the bottom or sides.
3. In the pan start boiling the water.
4. Stir in the sugar one spoonful at a time. You want to make sure there is lots of the
solute (in this case sugar) in the solution, but not so much that it doesn't all dissolve into
the solution. If you have some undissolved sugar your Rock Crystals will start building
onto those molecules rather than your string.
5. Add a few drops of food coloring and flavoring to the solution.
6. Carefully pour the solution from the pan into your clean glass jar. Make sure it's
clean, otherwise crystals will build onto those molecules on the jar and not on your string.
7. Place in the skewer into the jar through the hole. Again, don't let the string hit the
sides or bottom of the jar.
8. Find a safe spot for your jar so it won't get knocked around or exposed to too
much dust and debris.
9. Check on your Rock Crystals the next day and notice how they're started to take
form on the string.
10. Whenever your Rock Crystals are the right size for your taste or when they stop

growing go ahead and take them out of the jar and let them dry.
11. Enjoy their sugary goodness!

OBSERVATIONS
DAY

PICTURE

DATA

Monday 18, Jan.

so when i made the candy i used

cherry kool aid and added blue food
coloring. saddly mine may not
work.Mr k forgot to coat the stick in
sugar.

Tuesday 19, Jan.

Saddly i can not tell that my crystals

are grown or not because i put in food
coloring.

Wednesday 20,
Jan.

Thursday 21,
Jan.

It is growing quite well.

Friday 22, Jan.

It has growing so much.I am so happy.

monday.25 jan

tuesday

It is awesome.Its growing is so well.

NOT HERE

wednesday

It has not changed at all.

thursday

My stuff has to have gotten lighter and

grew more.

wenday

So we have finished our process and

this my final realistas

RESULTS
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CONCLUSION
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REFERENCES
1. http://www.kidzworld.com/article/26598-make-your-own-crystals
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