CER Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Adapted from Tracy Schloemer, Kirstin Milks, and Stephen Traphagen

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Sample Lab Conclusions are very informative of student ideas... From my data, I found that there are 1.29 Calories per gram of the potato chip; however, from the food label, there is 4.3 Calories per gram. My experimental evidence of Calories per gram was a lot less than the nutritional label. This is because I lost a lot of energy in my system to the surroundings. The hot fry has a larger amount of calories per gram than any of the other foods we tested in both my calculations and the actual amount taken from the food label. I do not believe that we transferred all of the energy from the burnt chip to the water because there were still air particles around our system and some of the energy could have been transferred to those. This means that instead of heating up the water, it heated up the air around the burning food. I think the reason that there was more energy released per gram of the potato chip as opposed to the marshmallow is because it was impossible to fully burn the marshmallow because it is really dense. We really only burned the first layer of the marshmallow as opposed to the whole thing. Some sources of error are, it wasn’t a closed system because there were still multiple surroundings the system could effect. Also, because the black stuff at the bottom of the can after burning the food is carbon lost from the food which means we lost some of the mass we needed to measure at the end, making the mass burned inaccurate. Another source of error is not being able to fully burn the food. Like the marshmallow, we couldn’t completely burn the entire piece of food because the tongs were in the way.