T2+Science+Fair

My grandfather has diabetes. He likes soft drinks. Soft drinks have lots of sugars, syrups, colourings and other additives. These are bad for diabetics but we wanted to know just how much sugar we drink in a variety of soft drinks. ||
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 * Introduction ||
 * Aim || To discover how many tea spoons of sugar are in 300 mls of soft drink - one average glass. ||
 * Hypothesis || The drinks that will contain the most sugar will be the carbonated soft drinks followed by the fruit flavoured drinks, then the juices and finally the waters. I think that there will be the following amount of sugar in each 300ml glass of drink
 * Schweppes Sparkiling Lemonade - 3 tsp
 * Fanta - Orange - 5 tsp
 * Powerade Berry Ice - 1 tsp
 * Red Grape Drink - 4 tsp
 * H2Go - 0 tsp
 * Pumped Mandarin - 1/2 tsp
 * Orange Drink Golden Circle - 2 tsp
 * Ribena - 2 stp
 * Fresh Up Apple juice - 1 tsp ||
 * Equipment || * calibrated hydrometer (homemade)
 * plastic drinking straw (solid colour)
 * large paper clip
 * ruler
 * scissors
 * waterproof marking pen
 * variety of soft drinks
 * Schweppes Sparkling Lemonade
 * Fanta - orange
 * Powerade - Berry Ice
 * Thextons Red Grape Fruit Drink
 * H2Go Pure Spring water
 * Pumped manadarin flavoured water
 * Golden circle Orange Fruit Drink
 * Ribena - Blackcurretn fruit drink
 * Fresh Up Crisp Apple Juice
 * 2 large water glasses the same size
 * measuring cup
 * teaspoon
 * water
 * sugar
 * Calculator ||
 * Method ||  ||
 * Recording & Results ||  ||
 * Discussion of Results ||  ||
 * Conclusion ||  ||

Worked out how many teaspoons this would be in our glass that would be 350mls || "Sugar Content in Soft Drinks" Medtronic Foundation and Galway Education Centre || The meaning of Hydrometer ||
 * ** Date ** || ** Science Fair Log Book ** ||
 * 17/5/10 || Bought soft drinks for experiment. ||
 * 17/5/10 || Made calibrated hydrometers ||
 * 17/5/10 || Created a table to show the amount of in each of the soft drinks we bought at the shop.
 * 17/5/10 || Trial run of the experiment using the hydrometers - one broke - too thin - need thicker glasses ||
 * 22/5/10 || Bought new glasses fort he experiment ||
 * 23/5/10 || Conducted the experiments ||
 * 23/5/10 || Completed table of results ||
 * 23/5/10 || Wrote the aim, hypothesis, equipment and method. ||
 * 26/5/10 || Started to work on putting the information on the board - decided on tilte "Sweet as...!" How much sugar is in your soft drink? ||
 * 27/5/10 || Completed work on Log Book - hard copy - stuck in pictures and labeled diagrams. ||
 * || ** Science Fair Bibliography ** **Remember to include any supporting documents, internet sites visited, books read or experts spoken to.** ||
 * || "Blue Ribbon Science Fair Projects" Glen Vecchione published by Sterling Publishing Company Inc 2005 ||
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