Kids Science Experiments - Wake Up Taste Buds
Surprising Senses Experiment
Wake Up Taste Buds
Materials you will need:
• Blind folds or scarves
• A few friends (to make it fun)
• Different foods (of choice):
- Sugar Cubes
- Salt
- Ice Cream
- Honey
- Coffee
- Bacon
- Orange slices
- Banana slices
- Lemon Juice/Slices
- Chocolate
• Containers for foods
•Spoons to dish out food
When choosing the foods for your experiments select a variety of sweet, salty, sour and bitter flavors. Also, try to select different textures; granules, solids, liquids, smooth and rough. See how many friends you can round up to make this experiment a lot of fun. This is a great science project for a group or class to enjoy. Remember to be kind to your willing participants.
Steps:
1. Find a few friends who are willing to be take part in your experiment.
2. Collect and prepare all the different foods that you are going to use in your test.
3. Place the blind folds on your friends. Do not let your friends see the foods before the testing begins. Keep them in suspense and see if they can guess the food you have placed on their tongue.
4. Place one item at a time on each persons tongue and see who can guess the items that have been used.
Here are a few questions you could ask your friends when you have finished your experiment:1. How well did your sense of smell kick in when your sense of sight and sense of touch were not in use?
2. Were you a bid afraid of what food might be placed on your tongue?
3. Did any of the above foods taste better or worse with the blind fold on?
4. Did you notice that your tongue discovered the different textures more?
5. Did you notice that your tongue sensed sweet, salty, bitter and sour foods on different parts of your tongue?
Taste - Our tongue can detect only four basic flavors.
1. Sweet - detected at the tip of your tongue
2. Salty - detected at the front sides of your tongue
3. Sour - detected along the rear sides of your tongue
4. Bitter - detected across the back of your tongueKids Science Experiments & Science Projects Categories:
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