chocolates
Activity

Different Types of Chocolate Melting

Science experiment to see what kind of chocolate melts the fastest.

This science project was done by Janice and Marta, who are students at Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI).


Question

Which Hershey’s chocolate will melt the fastest:  milk, dark, or cookies and cream?

Hypothesis

The dark chocolate will melt fastest.

Materials

Preparation

Purchase chocolates and find a lamp.

The image is of the graph made by students.
Bar graph of time for different types of chocolate to melt

Which chocolate will melt fastest?

  1. We will put 3 pieces of chocolate candy on a white paper towel.
  2. We will put chocolate pieces about 5 centimeters away from a 60 watt bulb.
  3. We will test the chocolate every 15 sec by touching it with a finger to see if it melted.
  4. We will make a tally how many seconds it will take for each one to melt.  We also make notes on how it looks as it melts.
  5. We will eat the melted chocolate!reese cup

Data and Results

Time to melt:

melting chocolate
Melting chocolate under lamp

Conclusion

Our hypothesis was not correct because the milk chocolate melted faster.

Variations

Several other variable can be tested and were considered.  These include brand of chocolate and various specialty chocolates. We didn’t test these variables for this experiment, though. 

NGSS Standards:

By Laura Hospitál

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