Saltine+Crackers--Zach,+Brent,+Alec,+Noah,+Caleb+Y

=**Myth**= It is impossible to eat six saltine crackers in one minute.

=Summary for Vocabulary Words= Saliva is a watery fluid put into the mouth by the salivary glands it's important because it is the thing that helps you swallow food. Salivary Glands are any of several glands, as the pair of glands located on each side of the lower jaw, that hold the saliva. Enzyme is any of various protiens, as the gastric juices that digest food originating from living cells. Carbohydrate is a starch that absorbs water, it is important because it is in the crackers. Salt is a crystalline compund, sodium chloride, NaCI, occuring as a mineral. Absobtion is the act of absorbing, it is important because the cracker absorbs the saliva/water. They all have something to do with a saltine because they are all in the cracker or they are what the cracker does, like absorbing.
 * Noah: Summary for Vocabulary Words**

=Summary for Questions= The reason your saliva comes out of your saliva glands is because your saliva glands hold saliva. They also on a daily basis make 1,440 milileters of saliva. All of the saltine crackers contain salt and salt absorbs water/saliva. If you drink water before you drink something salty, the salt will absorb the water or saliva in your mouth. Salt effects how you eat crackers because the salt absorbs the saliva in your mouth and makes it hard to swallow. You can increase the amount of saliva produced if you drink alot of water or have dentures that don't fit. A saltine cracker will absorb 32.5 millilleters of water/saliva. A person will produce 0.5 millilleters of saliva per minute.
 * Alec: Summary for Questions**

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=Smale Scale Procedure and Conclusion= __**Noah: Small Scale Procedue and Conclusion**__ Question/Myth: Does the amount of crackers affect the water absorbed? Hypothesis: If the saltine cracker absorbs more water,then when we put it in our mouth, it will absorb more saliva. IV: The amount of saltine crackers. DV: The amount of water it absorbs. CV: The amount of water we put in the beaker. CV: The size of the crackers. Materials: Saltine crackers for each test. Water(400mL). 2 beakers. Notebook. Pencil. Timer. Procedure: 1. Get the materials for the test. 2. Fill the beaker with 400mL. 3. Put one cracker in beaker and time for 30 seconds.4. Take cracker out at 30 seconds. 5. Measure amount of water left. 6. Record data in notebook. 7. Repeat 2-5 and add 1 more cracker each time. We thought that the more saltine crackers there are, the more water they will absorb. The average for one crackers absorption was 32.5 mL of water, the average of two was 39 mL, three was 62.5 mL, four crackers was 73 mL, five was 74.5mL, and six was 79mL. So that explains that if there are more crackers, more water will be absorbed. We found out that 7% of saltine crackers is salt and thats what helped the saltine cracker absorb the water. So if there is one cracker, there is 34 grams of salt and 2 grams of total carbohydrate and thats how the cracker absorbs the water. So if there are more crackers, there will be more salt and total corbohydrate, which means it will be able to absorb more water.
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=Large Scale Procedure= __**Alec: Large Scale Procedure**__ //**Large Scale Procedure**// Question/myth: Is it possible to eaten 6 saltine crackers in 1 minute? Hypothesis: If we change the person testing, then it won’t matter because a person can only make 0.5 milliliters of saliva per minute. Then the salt and enzyme can absorb the saliva so all the saliva in the testers mouth be absorbed. I.V: The people testing. D.V: The amount of crackers eaten. C.V: Amount of time and amount of crackers given. Materials: 6 Saltine Carackers Glass of Water Timer Notebook (for data) Pencil 5 Testing people Steps: 1. Get the materials for the test. 2. Get a person to test the myth. 3. When timer starts, start eating the crackers (one by one). 4. See how many crackers can be eaten in 60 seconds. 5. Record data in notebook. 6. Check mouth to see if any crackers are remaining. 7. Repeat steps 2-7 for each person testing.

=Large Scale Conclusion= We were seeing if it was possible to eat six saltine crackers in one minute. Our myth was busted because no one ate six saltine crackers in one minute. Caleb ate an average of 2.5 crackers. Alec and Greta ate an average of 3 saltine crackers. Amanda ate an average of 2 crackers. Isaiahn ate an average of 3 saltine crackers. So thats how our myth was busted. They couldn't eat the crackers because the salt on the crackers dried up everyones mouth causing them to not be able to swallow. we think that our error was that some of the crackers were stale making it even harder for them to chew and swallow them.
 * __Caleb Yoder: Conclusion__**
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=Overall Summary= Our myth was CONFIRMED. We think it is confirmed because none of the people we tested could eat 6 crackers in 60 seconds. The most crackers anyone ate was 4.

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