Managing+Impulsivity

So! If one asks me what my favorite experiment throughout the whole year was (although the whole isn't finished yet), my answer would be a definite calculating the calorie of foods experiment!! Science experiments might seem dull, boring. The same routine of using beakers, cylinders, and calculators. However, this experiment was different. The materials we had were marshmallows, nachos, and beans. *This experiment was done when Ms.Knowles wasn't there so a sub was in charge of watching us* We all saw the marshmallows and nachos and wanted to eat it so much! However, our group said to each other that we needed to focus focus focus. We started the experiment with the smallest food, beans. There wasn't a lot of oil coming out so nothing really amazed us. We cleaned up and got ready to do the experiment with MARSHMALLOWWS. Our eyes were all watching the marshmallows and waiting to touch it and smell it. Once we put the marshmallow on fire......a lot of oil came out. We had to fold up the corners of the aluminum foil so that the oil won't leak onto the table. So much oil came out that our group just sat there, shocked at how much oil the marshmallows contained. From that time onwards, no one said anything about how much they want to eat the marshmallows. We used nachos for the last experiment and my group wished nachos did not contain as much oil the marshmallow contained. Luckily, the nacho did NOT have the same amount of oil coming out with the marshmallow, but it was still a lot. We started our calculation and figured out the calories for the 3 food products. No one said "I want to eat 'em" again after finishing the experiment.