1.4 Experiment 1: Potato experiment
Follow Janet’s instructions in the video (or use your activity booklet PDF) to conduct the experiment. Don’t forget to prick a few holes in your potato and to use oven gloves when handling your hot potato!
It is possible to go too far during the cooking process and cause your potato to smoke and potentially catch fire, so watch the potato during the experiment, and as soon as you see smoke coming from it, or smell burning, you should bring the experiment to a halt immediately.
This is your first opportunity to document an experiment. Remember the advice in the previous sections and record all your observations and results carefully.
You will have the opportunity to discuss your results in the next section.
OpenLearn - Basic science: understanding experiments 
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