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  • Your Turn: Candy Model?
YOUR TURN:  CANDY MODEL?

DIRECTIONS: 
Each of the models represented on this website has a matching "candy model" (see list and pictures of candies below). 

So... 
Can you figure out which "candy model" best represents Democritus' model of the atom?
Can you figure out which "candy model" best represents Dalton's model of the atom?
Can you figure out which "candy model" best represents Thomson's model of the atom?
Can you figure out which "candy model" best represents Rutherford's model of the atom?
Can you figure out which "candy model" best represents Bohr's model of the atom?
Can you figure out which "candy model" best represents the Modern Quantum Mechanical Model of the atom?


Make sure you provide EVIDENCE and EXPLANATIONS for why each of the "candy models" you pick best matches the "real models."


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Hershey's Cookies N' Cream Kiss

combine the sweet flavor of white chocolate with real pieces of cookie

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Cotton Candy

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Gobstopper

consist of a number of layers, each layer dissolving to reveal a different colored (and sometimes differently flavored) layer, before dissolving completely

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Runts

hard candies (orange, banana, grape, apple, strawberry)

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Ferrero Rocher

the chocolate candy consists of a whole roasted hazelnut encased in a thin wafer shell filled with hazelnut cream and covered in milk chocolate and chopped hazelnuts.

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Cherry Lollipop (no special center - hard all the way through)

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