EDD Scenario: Colored Mash Potatoes!

Gloria wanted to find out if the color of food would affect whether kindergarten children would select it for lunch. She put food coloring in 4 identical bowls of mashed potatoes. The colors were red, green, yellow, and blue. Each child chose a scoop of potatoes of the color of their choice. Gloria did this experiment using 100 students. She recorded the number of students that chose each color.

Which is NOT a constant?

• A scoop of mash potatoes

• 100 students

• Food coloring

• 4 idential bowls

Tags

NGSS.2-PS1-1

Gloria wanted to find out if the color of food would affect whether kindergarten children would select it for lunch. She put food coloring in 4 identical bowls of mashed potatoes. The colors were red, green, yellow, and blue. Each child chose a scoop of potatoes of the color of their choice. Gloria did this experiment using 100 students. She recorded the number of students that chose each color.

What is the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE (IV)?

• Color of mash potatoes

• Type of mash potatoes

• Students' color of choice

• Time that students get to eat

Tags

NGSS.K-2-ETS1-1

Gloria wanted to find out if the color of food would affect whether kindergarten children would select it for lunch. She put food coloring in 4 identical bowls of mashed potatoes. The colors were red, green, yellow, and blue. Each child chose a scoop of potatoes of the color of their choice. Gloria did this experiment using 100 students. She recorded the number of students that chose each color.

What is NOT a level of the IV?

• Blue

• Light blue

• Yellow

• Red

Gloria wanted to find out if the color of food would affect whether kindergarten children would select it for lunch. She put food coloring in 4 identical bowls of mashed potatoes. The colors were red, green, yellow, and blue. Each child chose a scoop of potatoes of the color of their choice. Gloria did this experiment using 100 students. She recorded the number of students that chose each color.

How many times did Gloria perform the experiment (Number of Trials)?

• 5

• 16

• 8

• 1

Gloria wanted to find out if the color of food would affect whether kindergarten children would select it for lunch. She put food coloring in 4 identical bowls of mashed potatoes. The colors were red, green, yellow, and blue. Each child chose a scoop of potatoes of the color of their choice. Gloria did this experiment using 100 students. She recorded the number of students that chose each color.

What is the DEPENDENT VARIABLE (DV)?

• Color of mash potatoes

• Type of mash potatoes

• Students' color of choice

• Time that students get to eat

Tags

NGSS.2-PS1-1

Gloria wanted to find out if the color of food would affect whether kindergarten children would select it for lunch. She put food coloring in 4 identical bowls of mashed potatoes. The colors were red, green, yellow, and blue. Each child chose a scoop of potatoes of the color of their choice. Gloria did this experiment using 100 students. She recorded the number of students that chose each color.

Which choice is an appropriate hypothesis?

• If students choose blue mash potatoes the most, then Gloria can throw away the other color potatoes.

• If Gloria adds different colors to mash potatoes, then the the students will choose blue the most.

Tags

NGSS.2-PS1-2

Gloria wanted to find out if the color of food would affect whether kindergarten children would select it for lunch. She put food coloring in 4 identical bowls of mashed potatoes. The colors were red, green, yellow, and blue. Each child chose a scoop of potatoes of the color of their choice. Gloria did this experiment using 100 students. She recorded the number of students that chose each color.

Which choice is an appropriate title?

• The affect of color of mash potatoes on the students' food selection choice.

• The affect students' color of choice on the different colors of mash potatoes.