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Have you ever wondered, “What are my drinks doing to my teeth?” Well, you will find out through our experiment. This means taking teeth and putting each one in a liquid and observing them over a period of time. What we did was we took six teeth and put them in six different sugary liquids. The effects will be big. This won’t happen to you if you don’t brush your teeth.
We did our report on the effects of tooth decay from sugary drinks. Our question was, “If we put six teeth in six different liquids which will affect the tooth the most?” To form a hypothesis, we needed background knowledge about our topic. After research, we found out that the two things that mostly cause tooth decay from drinks are the amount of sugar and the acidity level. We used this information to make a hypothesis that the tooth in the blueberry syrup would be affected the most because it had so much sugar in it. ( i will continue this paragraph later)
The liquids that we used were blueberry syrup juice, diet coke, mineral water, lemon gatorade, apple juice, and orange juice. We measured each liquid to 20 ml. Alma brought the blueberry syrup juice and the mineral water in clear containers. She chose this because the
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blueberry syrup has pure sugar in it and the mineral water acts like soda but doesn’t have sugar in it. An brought the apple and orange juice also in clear container because these are both rich in sugar. Maggie brought the diet coke and the lemon gatorade because the diet coke may not have sugar, but it has a lot of acid. She also chose the lemon gatorade because it has a lot of sugar. We all brought our liquids to school and labeled them then put one tooth in each. We stuffed them in a small brown box and we kept it in the cabinet of our science class. The teeth were checked and observed once a week every thursday. Week 1 On Thursday of week one, we went to our science classroom after school. We took out the box out of the cabinet and examine the liquids and the teeth. We took pictures on An’s of each tooth in the liquid. After we were done looking at the teeth, we would put it back into the container. This was the first week so there were no major effects of the tooth decay yet.Our observations for that day was that the orange juice had white and yellow spots on it. The apple juice looked a bit whiter because we heard that apple's actually clean your teeth a bit. Sparkling/mineral water looked the same as if we put it in now. The Blueberry syrup juice didn’t have any effect on the tooth yet . The tooth in the diet coke looked pretty normal. The lemon gatorade had made the tooth turn slightly yellow. We wrote these observations down on a sheet of paper. When we were done, we would put it back into the box and leave it in the cabinet waiting for the next week to come. Week 2 On the second thursday, week two of the experiment, we all went to PAWS to check on the teeth and what the drinks had done to them after we had left them in the drinks for one week. We took out the box from the cabinet, looked at the 6 containers from the box and examined all the teeth. In the orange juice we saw that the tooth was turning a yellow color and that the juice had started to have white mold growing on top of it. In the apple juice, and the tooth looked a bit brownish orangish and the juice looked like it had some fuzzy mold growing all over the top part of it. We took out the sparkling water and the tooth looked exactly the same as before. We then took out the blueberry syrup juice we examined the tooth and it turned out to be the purple. The tooth in the diet coke had turned brown/orange. Last, we took out the lemon gatorade and saw that the tooth turned bright yellow. When we opened all of the containers, a funny smell came out. It wasn’t strong really but if you went a bit closer to the containers you could actually smell it. An took out her phone and snapped a picture of each tooth inside the containers. We put them back into the box and left it in the cabinet for the next week. Week 3 Week three was the last week of our experiment and we took out the actual teeth to see the final results. During PAWS, we had come in and taken all of the containers out and opened them to observe and take pictures of them. We used a spoon to take each tooth out and observe it. We first observed the orange juice. The tooth was yellow (light orange yellow) in the inside of it and white on the outer part of it. The oranje juice itself had white mold all over it with a green oval piece of mold at the corner. Apple juice was very white on the outside of it and drange in the inside of it. The juice was very moldy and had bubbles on it. The tooth in the mineral water looked pretty normal but the water itself started to turn cloudy. The tooth in the syrup juice made the tooth look reddish purplish and was starting to make the tooth look clear. You could see through some of the parts of the tooth. For the diet coke, the tooth was brown in the inside of it and very light brown on the outside. Last the lemon gatorade was yellow. The tooth was like a yellow highlighter color. When we finished observing the gatorade, we noticed something. A gross, strong smell. We found out that the smell came from the juices! It smelled like 4 week old garbage. We quickly covered up all of the six containers, and stuffed them into the brown box. After, we put it back into the cabinet to use as our display with our finished board for the project. After the experiment we had to use our information to make a nice poster board about our project.
For our project, we needed a creative title to make people interested in our topic. In the the end, we had come up with “When Pearl White Goes Bad”. Our information also had to be put on the board so we made a bar graph on the amount of sugar each drink had in 20 m. Then, we made a table on the acidity of each drink. We also had to present our pictures and observations in an organized way on the board. Before we could start writing our information on the board, we couldn’t find it. Someone or something had taken our board so we had to think of something fast. An (the next week) bought a board to school on Tuesday so Alma could put it in our science teacher’s
room. In that week, on Thursday, we went to PAWS and started working on our board. An printed out week 1 and week 2 pictures of the drinks. We lined them up but the pictures were too big. We had three weeks and the pictures for week one and week to could barely fit on the board. An got out her ruler and we took one of the pictures and made it smaller. We made it to about 3 x 2.25 inches. We took that picture that had been cut and we traced it around all the other pictures An brought to school so far. We took the right side of the board (the part on the right that you fold inwards) and split it evenly into 3 columns. We then split the 3 columns into six even horizontal sections. One box would have the picture, then a small box under the picture would be the observations. We did this for all eighteen picture. The next week, An brought the rest of the pictures, so on Tuesday PAWS, An and Alma cut the pictures with the exact same size as the others and glued the pictures down on to the board. Then on Thursday PAWS, we started to write! An wrote the title nice and big and Alma went over it in green making it look kind of 3D. Maggie wrote the Question, Alma wrote the Hypothesis while An and Maggie worked on the Graph and the table, Alma did the materials, Maggie wrote the procedure, An wrote the conclusion and Alma wrote the results. When we were done writing all those and going over it in black pen, we started the harder stuff. The BACKGROUND! Maggie started the background but later she didn’t know what do. Neither did Alma or An so we asked Mrs. Yarbrough ( Science teacher). She explained what to do but still, we couldn’t figure out what to do. She told us to go on the computer, find the article, and print it out. Alma went on the computer and found the article and printed it out. Our teacher then told us to use some of the information and reword it. That article didn’t really help us so Mrs. Yarbrough told us to find an article where someone has done it already. Alma went back onto the computer and found and article, printed it out and gave it to maggie who was trying to figure out what she should write down next. We used some of the information from that article and wrote it down. We were glad that part was over, but we still had to do the discussion and the discussion was a long one. An got started on the discussion and soon after, she finished it. We went over both in black pen. We were so happy that we were done until our teacher came over and said… “where is your abstract.” Maggie quickly found some room to write the abstract on top of the board. Soon we were finally done and feeling satisfied.
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