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	Project title	How the color of a building affects indoor temperature
	Difficulty Level	Elementary school
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This experiment was conducted to ascertain how the color of the walls of a building affects its indoor temperature.
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For this experiment, the independent variable is the color of the box. The dependent variable is the temperature inside the box. This is determined by monitoring the temperature inside the box for 1 hour. The constants (control variables) are the size of the boxes, the materials from which the boxes are constructed, the temperature outside the boxes, and the light source used for the experiment. The 5 boxes are painted black, white, grey, red and green on the outside. The paint is allowed to dry and the boxes are then sealed using the scotch tape. A small hole (about .....

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