Along with four colleagues (a veritable Science A-Team!), I was involved in an outreach activity at the University of East Anglia today.Two frenetic 25-min sessions involving about 30 pupils as an activity for the Local Education Authority.
We re-jigged the taste and flavour activity to suit the venue and time pressures.
The children seemed to enjoy exploring the activities (including dying their tongues with blue food colouring!).
We asked them to think about why we have the ability to taste foods, see how taste-buds are laid out on the tongue and explored why people react to tastes differently.
Dave, Tris & I have all done this activity before, Mel & Kenzi (as far as I know) hadn't but kudos to them they did an excellent job interacting with the children.
Information for teachers who might wish to run this activity at their schools (including Risk Assessments) is available at the second hyperlink (above).
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