Science Fair 2011 ~ I Scream, You Scream We all Scream for Ice Cream

This year Garett's class was asked to participate in the school's science fair. Man words that this mom doesn't like to hear; I am being 100% honest but with the help a family friend we came up with a fabulous idea. Garett and his best friend, Craig, paired up to tackle the assignment.
They wanted to see if we really do eat with our eyes. So they took some vanilla ice cream and colored it with non-tasting red and brown food dye ~ thus strawberry and chocolate and they left some white, vanilla





They then set up the test group, a classroom of fourth graders. They had all the students taste the flavors and complete a survey of what the flavor was (remember they are ALL vanilla) The responses were great. It was so hard for Garett and Craig to keep a straight face as the students knew they were tasting strawberry, caramel, chocolate and even a few pumpkin spice flavored ice cream. They then told the students to look for the display at the science fair to see the results and to see if they really did know their ice cream flavors.




Garret and Craig were awarded 2nd place in the fifth grade for their project and they discovered that your sense of sight really do effect your sense of taste. It was a fun project and in the end I can say I honestly enjoyed it this year. Congrats boys ~ well done