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Students design procedures for increasing the popping rate of a set amount of popcorn kernels. They propose and test a "secret" addition to the corn popping procedure which they expect would increase the popping rate and then write lab reports.

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Grade
6th - 12th
Subjects
Science
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For Teacher Use
Duration
1 hr
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Inquiry-Based Learning
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