Gum and Chocolate

TYPE: Short Activities
AUDIENCE: Ages 4 - Adult
TOPIC: Chemistry
In this activity, learners practice observation and prediction skills as they experience an interesting chemical reaction in their mouths by chewing chocolate and gum at the same time.
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Gum and Chocolate is a fun (and gross!) activity in which participants can experience a chemical reaction in their mouths.

This activity involves real gum and real chocolate, which could conflict with your organization's policies around food, allergens, or chokeables, so you may want to use the activity only for facilitator training purposes, or at a closely monitored table at your event.

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  • Gum and Chocolate Chemistry activity - child holding piece of chocolate
  • Gum and Chocolate Chemistry activity - child holding piece of gum and thinking
  • A group of facilitators going through training chew and mix mint gum with chocolate
  • A large group of facilitators going through training chew and mix mint gum with chocolate
  • An instructor leads a facilitator training session for the Gum and Chocolate activity with a large group in a amphitheater
  • A facilitator demonstrates how to mix and chew gum with a piece of chocolate

DESCRIPTION

Gum and Chocolate is a fun (and gross!) activity in which participants can experience a chemical reaction in their mouths.

This activity involves real gum and real chocolate, which could conflict with your organization's policies around food, allergens, or chokeables, so you may want to use the activity only for facilitator training purposes, or at a closely monitored table at your event.

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TYPE:
Educational Resources
AUDIENCE:
Ages 4 - Adult
LANGUAGES:
English Spanish
ADDITIONAL TOPICS: Physical Sciences Chemistry Societal Topics Food and Cooking
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Credits

YEAR CREATED
2018
PROJECT
OWNING INSTITUTION

Museum of Science, Boston

FUNDING

Developed for the NISE Network with funding from the National Science Foundation under Grant Number DRL 1612482. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this product are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.

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Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).
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