1. Crayon Melting
By: Corrie Jacobs
December 5, 2013

2. Scientific Question
Out of five different neon crayons, which one will melt the fastest?

3. Background
I chose to do this project because I have always wondered which crayon with the same kind of tone would melt faster. By tone I mean neon colors,darker colors or lighter colors. I am doing neon because they are all light but have different color.

4. Hypothesis
If I try to test which neon crayon will melt the fastest out of neon pink,neon purple,neon orange,neon green and neon yellow then the neon pink will melt the fastest.

5. Variables Independent (Manipulated) Variable: shape and size
Dependent Variable: how fast can each crayons can melt
Controlled Variable:crayon brand,color and temperature

6. PROCEDURE Get out cupcake pan Put cupcake holders on the sheet
Get the five colors that you are going to melt
Unwrap the paper around the crayon
Put the crayon in the cupcake holder
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees
Place one of the five crayons that you want to melt onto the sheet
Set the timer for ten mins
Place the crayons in the oven
Watch to see when the crayon melts
Take the crayon out when it's melted
Pause the timer and see how long it took
Then report the data
Repeat with the other crayons

7. Data Y
Y-axis
X-axis

8. Data Y-axis X-axis minutes it took to melt neon colors 5.75
neon orange
2.75
neon pink 2
neon yellow
2.55
neon green
1.95
neon purple

9. Data
As I was melting the crayons i noticed that even if they were all neon that the darker ones still melted faster.

10. Conclusion
Out of the five different neon crayons the color that melted the fastest was the neon purple. The crayon that took the longest out of the five crayons to melt was the neon orange. Even though they were all neon I learned that the darker colors would melt faster because it absorbed most of the heat. In my hypothesis I thought that the neon pink would melt the fastest but the neon purple ended up.