It is OK if it tastes like nothing, or like paper. It could also taste salty, sweet, bitter, hot, etc. 5. Collect results and graph the data on large sheet of butcher paper. Test papers are to be numbered to correspond with the sequence of the previous activity. Students will share their experiences with their families and friends.
Students can place tally marks on yesterday's chart.
Discuss whether their predictions were correct. Follow up activities could include the construction of a Punnett Square using the information collected from parents. The percentage of offspring that are tasters could be predicted, and more testing done to check. Some may hypothesize that people who tend to be overweight are tasters, or that thinner people are non-tasters. An experiment could be designed and carried out to prove the hypothesis.