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Most scientists don’t eat the results of their experiments when their research is complete. That is, unless they’re doing candy cane science.
On Monday, third-grade researchers in Rebecca Bustelos’ class at Giffen Elementary used their skills of observing, inferring, communicating, classifying and predicting to conduct three different science experiments with candy canes.
They investigated whether candy canes sink or float in water, which water temperature melts candy canes the fastest, and which kinds of candy canes (cherry, raspberry or mint) dissolve the most quickly in hot water.
Spoiler alert: Candy canes float, hot water melts candy canes fastest, and mint candy canes dissolve the fastest out of the three.
After 45 minutes of lab work, the scientists selected a candy cane in their flavor of choice and were allowed to eat it.
