Variables

My independant variables would be the conditions on where my experiment is set, the materials that I use (besides the coloured sheet) and time.
My dependant variable would be the temperature of the water, as it depends on the time. Right?? Now I'm confused.

And now I have to send my blog URL, but didn't I do that the first time? I'm so confused.

Method

My experiment would be something like:
1. buy different fabrics or cellophane or paper of shades of black to white
2. cover it around a glass or jar or a wine glass or something like that
3. put the same amount of water in each glass
4. turn on a light for 30 mins, allowing it to heat up
5. use a thermometer to see how hot each one of them are

and then voila you'll see which one will be the hottest. I'd have to make sure that they all have the same amount of water, with the same container thing and the same light thing. I'm also looking up the EM spectrum, visible light and absorption of light to get some background information.

Which shade from black to white absorbs the most heat

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/Phys_p030.shtml has a report and an experiment on how colour affects heat absorption. It's pretty good but I might chang the experiment a little to make it easier.
http://www.colormatters.com/science_faq.html also gave me other ways I could carry out this experiment.

I asked miss zhang about which colour absorbs more heat, and she said i could do shades of black to white and see which shade absorbs the most. Or I could also do what types of apple brown the fastest, and I could also add it with sugar and salt and vinegar and all that.

SRP ideas

I've been trying to find some SRP ideas from the science fair projects and their either way too hard, with all these scientific equipment, or too easy.
I found one on proving that dark surfaces absorb more light than light surfaces, but i don't know if that's what we're looking for.