Boil, Boil, Toil and Trouble:
The International Boiling Point Project

To see if there is a relationship between boiling point and the type of heating device, you will have to make a chart instead of a graph because to use a graph, all variables have to be numbers. However, there are different kinds of charts you can make that will help you decide if there is a relationship between boiling point and heating device. Below is one example; you may be able to come up with others.

In the spreadsheet, you can create a table of all the different heating devices that were used and then list all of the different boiling point temperatures that were submitted for each kind of device....like this:
 
 

Then, highlight the data and choose the appropriate chart to make. Here is an example below. With a lot of data, your chart could become very long! One option is to make a separate chart for each heating device (on separate pieces of paper) and then have different groups of students compare charts. 
 
 

 
 
 

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