With world book day on the 3rd of March and 2016 being the centenary of Roald Dahl's birth, Cowbridge Chemistry department teamed up with the English department to celebrate the birth of Roald Dahl. Year 7 and Year 8 pupils carried out an investigation during Chemistry lessons based upon one of his most beloved books - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!
In chapter 3 of the book, Gramdpa Joe recounts the story of Prince Pondicherry and his meeting with Mr Willy Wonka. Telling the marvellous tale of the building of a stupendous chocolate palace. Having listened to the story, and discussed issues relating to a chocolate palace pupils devised experiments to investigate which chocolate would be the best for the Prince to use.
Pupils looked at factors including the amount of chocolate, the type of chocolate - milk, dark, white, caramel etc and the temperature of the environment.
Below are some picture of the pupils at work.
Results
The findings of 8-7 were that dark chocolate would be the best chocolate to use for Prince Pondicherry's palace with the walls being at least 4 bricks thick!
