Tasty Labs: Lollipop Lab

Get ready to have fun making delicious lollipops while learning science and math! Whip up batches of red cherry and blue raspberry lollipops, plus a massive ring lollipop with both flavors! Learn about temperature as you use the thermometer to boil sugar and discover how it crystallizes to form hard candy. Gain experience with measurements, conversions, volumes, and weights, and then calculate the volume of your lollipops. The kit includes two special flavored lollipop mixes, a plastic molding tray, candy thermometer, measuring beaker, ring lollipop base, and lollipop sticks.

NGSS Correlations

Matter and Its Interactions Construct an argument with evidence that some changes caused by heating or cooling can be reversed and some cannot.
Matter and Its Interactions Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.
Matter and Its Interactions Measure and graph quantities to provide evidence that regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of matter is conserved.
Matter and Its Interactions Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.