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My science fair project is Does Gum Actually Help You Concentrate.

My hypothesis is that gum won't help you concentrate because gum does not make a real connection to your brain and it is not a living or breathing thing that lives inside of you.

**Source 1:**
 * Procedure: Day 1-** First I will test my dad. I will print a scripture passage. I will have my dad read it without chewing any gum. If he makes any stumbles in reading or stops reading because he is lost i will record that. I will also be timing him to see if he can read it faster without gum. Then I will move on to my mom and make her read the scripture passage while timing her, without gum, recording all stumbles or stopping of reading to keep track of herself I will record that too. Then I will move on to my brother. I will make him do the same thing without gum and recording the same things. Next I will have my sister do this without gum recording stumbles or stops and timing her. **Day 2-** I will have printed out a maze from the computer. I will go to my mom first. I will make her do the maze without gum. I will record how long it takes her. Then my dad doing the same thing. Then my brother. Then my sister.
 * Day 3-****Day 4-** I will have printed out a division test for my mom, dad and brother. And a subtraction test for my sister. I will time how long it takes them to complete it and how many answers they got wrong. **Day 5-** In will have them do the reading again in the same order but I will have them chew 1 piece of gum. **Day 6-** I will have them do the maze again but with 1 piece of gum. **Day 7-****Day 8-** I will have them do the test again chewing 1 piece of gum. **Day 9-** Reading again with 2 pieces of gum. **Day 10-** Maze again with 2 pieces of gum. **Day 11-** Weights again with 2 pieces of gum. **Day 12-** Test again with 2 pieces of gum. **Day 13-** Scripture passage 3 pieces of gum. **Day 14-** Maze again 3 pieces of gum. **Day 15-** ** Day 16- ** Tests with 3 pieces of gum. ** Day 17- 28- ** Do second trial. ** Day 29-38- ** do third trial

[] A national award winning website.
 * This website says that gum will help you concentrate on a memory game.
 * Kate Morgan is the person who actually did the experiment.
 * I searched Kate Morgan on Google and another website talks about her. []

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 * Source 2:**
 * The concentration boost that gum gives you only lasts for about 20 minutes.
 * Mint flavored gum was tested to be the best concentration boost.
 * Source 3: **


 * Gum helps relieve anxiety.
 * Medical News Today is owned by MediLexicon International Ltd . With head offices in the United Kingdom. It is one of the best leading medical news website on the internet.

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 * Source 4:**
 * If you are very tired in the morning take a piece of gum and eat it for about 20 minutes to help you wake up.

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 * Source 5:**
 * Overall gum chewing significantly increased alertness, fastened reaction time and increased the speed of learning new things.

My textbook
 * Source 6: **
 * For my experiment you will be using these parts of your brain: Vision and Speech.
 * You also use reasoning to find out the maze.
 * Speech and reason are on the left side of your brain and vision is on the right.

=Works Cited:=

"Chewing Gum May Help Reduce Stress According To New Research." //Medical News Today //. MediLexicon International, 01 Sept. 2008. Web. 26 Sept. 2013. .
 * This website is owned by MediLexicon International Ltd.

Karandish, David. "Does Chewing Gum Help You Concentrate?" //WikiAnswers//. Answers, n.d. Web. 26 Sept. 2013. 
 * David Karandish is the CEO of the website
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;">Peter Horan is the president of this website

Morgan, Kate. "Chewing Gum Helps You Concentrate for Longer, Study Suggests."//ScienceDaily//. ScienceDaily, 08 Mar. 2013. Web. 26 Sept. 2013. <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130308093933.htm>.
 * More websites are talking about Kate Morgan.
 * Science Daily won these awards: PC Magazine, Popular Science 3 times, and the Boston Globe

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Moyer, Richard. "Two Systems of Control." //McGraw-Hill Science//. New York: McGraw-Hill School Division, 2000. 578-601. Print.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;">Authors: Richard Moyer, Lucy Daniel, Jay Hackett, Prentice Baptiste, Pamela Stryker, and Joanne Vasquez.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;">This book was printed in 2000.
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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Wenk, Gary. "Gum Chewing Is Good for the Brain." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Http: //www.psychologytoday.com //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. N.p., 10 Aug. 2012. Web. 27 Sept. 2013. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">
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