Understanding of Food

NC Standard:  4.04, 4.05

Activity:  Starch to Sugar

Question: What do enzymes do?

Vocabulary: Enzymes, starch, sugar, amylase, carbohydrates

Materials: Soda cracker

Procedures: 

• 1. Chew a soda cracker well and hold it in your mouth for 5 minutes.

• 2. Record what you taste as you begin chewing.

• 3. Record what you taste after 5 minutes.
  

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Line of Learning:  This line is drawn to provide students with a space to share their experimental learning in words or pictures.
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