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Chewing Gum Challenge

www.junglephotos.com/amazon/amplants/trees/chicle.shtml
Description	Task
A picture and writing about a chicle tree- the original chewing gum!	How can you get chewing gum from a chicle tree?

waynesword.palomar.edu/ecoph13.htm
Description	Task
Look at the pictures of Amrican chewing gums. Find out about the chicle tree.	How was the gum tapped from the chicle tree? What is made from the fruit of the chicle tree?

http:/inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blgum.htm
Description	Task
The history of chewing gum.	What did ancient Greeks chew? What did the North American Indians chew? Who made and sold the first chewing gum?

www.zerogum.org.uk/the20problem.htm
Description	Task
Different ways of removing chewing gum from street pavements.	Why is it tricky to remove gum that’s sticky?

www.diynot.com/pages/st/st011.php
Description	Task
How to get chewing gum off clothes and carpets.	Read the advice. Try it out.

www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/infection/

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Task

Do some Infection Detection!

Game

Go to Bacteria in the Cafeteria. Solve the microbe riddle. Find the blue stars hidden in the cafeteria lunchroom then answer. Do these bacteria help people?

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