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Date

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Purpose

• Chewing gum and its effect on the temperature of a person’s mouth

Problem/Questions

• How does chewing gum affect the temperature of a person’s mouth?

• Does it make a difference if you are chewing cinnamon gum or winter fresh gum?

Hypothesis

• If…Then…

– (Fill in your own hypothesis here)

Materials

• Paper and pencil

• Test subjects

• Thermometers

• Mint flavored gum

• Cinnamon flavored gum

Procedure

1. Get materials2. Wait 5 minutes WITHOUT TALKING to get

a baseline temperature3. Take the temperature of each participant in

the study. Record the data.4. Split your group into the person chewing the

cinnamon gum, the person chewing the mint gum, and the person who will not be chewing gum (the control of this experiment)

Procedure Cont’d

5. CHEW for 3 minutes6. Take the gum out of your mouth and

immediately take your temperature. DO NOT TALK during this time.

7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 three more times, then spit out the gum.

8. Wait without talking for 5 minutes, then take your temperature for the final time.

9. Clean up your area, then finish the data table

DataPerson Rest 2 min 4 min 6 min 8 min Rest

Observations

• Using your senses, what did you observe during this lab?

Graphing and Analysis

• What type of graph will we make for this lab?