Experience with Tasting

MATERIAL:

No special material is needed. Some schools use little tasting

bottles with eye droppers.

PURPOSE:

1) To make the child more aware of taste

2) To make the child intelligently observant

3) To help develop ability to make finer discriminations

PRESENTATION:

For snack or meals the teacher can help children become interested

noticing taste. The teacher should make sure to present only

things that have a pleasant taste, however. It is interesting to

present things that have very subtle tastes. The children would

enjoy comparing the tastes of a variety of apples (delicious,

Jonathan, Pippin, Macintosh, etc.), melons (cantaloupe, honeydew,

Crenshaw, watermelon, etc.), grapes (red, green, purple), or cheeses

(cheddar, Jack, string, gouda, etc.).

 

VOCABULARY:

sweet - salty - bitter - sour

 

 

 

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