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Purpose:
This activity allows students to use familiar substances to predict, record, create and interpret graphs, and draw conclusions based upon their results.
Summary:
Students will predict the number and colors of the M&M's in each bag and then record the actual numbers and colors. From that information, students will create a graph, compare information with other students, and then draw conclusions based upon all of the information they received.
Objectives Links:
1. A & B: Physical Properties
Process Skills Checklist
Materials:
For each student:
- One individually wrapped snack-size package of M&M's
- one data worksheet
- set of colored pencils or crayons
Safety Concerns:
Common sense precautions.
Revision Date:
November 2001
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