Gummy Bears / Tr
Tootsie Roll / M
Mounds / Sf
Swedish Fish / Ca
Carmel Apple Suckers / Dd
Dum Dums / S
Smarties / TW
Twix / Rp
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups / MW
Milky Way
Gw
Gummy Worms / Jf
Jujy Fruits / Wl
Wax Lips / Jb
Jelly Belly / N
Nerds / Ls
Life Savers / Pd
Payday / Kk
Kit Kat / Jm
Junior Mints / WT
Salt Water Taffy
Sp
Sour Patch Kids / Md
Milk Duds / Sd
Sugar Daddy / Tw
Twislers / Sw
Sweet Tarts / Se
Spree / W
Whoppers / Mm
M&M’s / Yp
York Peppermint Patties / Sk
Skittles
Ah
Air Heads / R
Rolos / Rv
Red Vines / Sb
Starbursts / G
Everlasting Gobstoppers / Jr
Jolly Rancher / Pr
Pop Rocks / Hk
Hersey Kiss / S
Snickers / Tm
Three Musketeers
Lt
Laffy Taffy / Aj
Almond Joys / Ht
Hot Tamales / Bp
Blow Pops / Hb
Heath Bar / Af
Atomic Fireball / Mg
Mr. Goodbar / Bf
Butterfingers / Cc
Candy Corn / CT
Chocolate Truffle
Ashley Runde
Mixon Science
4th hour
Periodic Table Project
1. Describe the basis of your arrangement. (What unique characteristic(s) allows your objects to be arranged in their particular manner?)
The main category of my periodic table is texture. Texture can be broken down into smaller categories like hard and crunchy. With this unique characteristic I have a great way to sort all of the candies. The broken down parts of texture that I used were Chewy, Chewy Hard, Hard, Hard Crunchy, Crunchy Soft, and Soft. These categories have their own characteristics so none of them are like the other.
2. What are the important features of your table?
One important feature of my table is that all of the categories are color coded so you can tell what object is in what category. Like the chewy category is light blue so you can look at the chart and find the group of chewy elements. I also put the categories on the chart in a special order so they could fall into each other. For example, chewy is next to chewy hard and chewy hard is next to hard. This is so they all go down the chart smoothly and are not jumbled up.
3. How is your arrangement of objects similar to the Periodic Table of Elements? Explain.
My arrangement that is similar to the Periodic Table of Elements because you can separate my table into groups just like the real Periodic Table. In the Periodic Table of Elements you can separate the objects and put them into groups. Some of these are metals, non-metals, metalloids, and noble gasses. In my Periodic Table of Candy you can put them into groups by texture. For example, there’s chewy, chewy hard, hard, and soft.
4. How is your arrangement of object different to the Periodic Table of Elements? Explain.
My arrangement is different from the periodic table because I don’t have any labels for the columns and rows. My form of arrangement doesn’t need columns and rows because there is no need for it. Instead I have my table color coded to see where each group, while the periodic table organizes it with columns and rows.
5. Mendeleev created a periodic table of elements and predicted characteristics of missing elements. Make a prediction about an object on your table that has not yet been discovered (the object will follow the last known one on your table). You should provide an actual example of the object and you should provide detailed reasoning for why this particular object will fit onto your periodic table according to your arrangement.
I predict that a type of soft truffle will be here. I believe this will be there because most of the soft candies on my table are chocolates. This leads me to think that a type of soft chocolate truffle will be here because chocolate has a soft texture unlike sweethearts that are hard candies.
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