Investigating Whether Kids Can Mistake Vitamins for Candy

Overview

Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine if children from ages 5-8 can tell the difference between vitamins and candy. Vitamins can be harmful if too many are taken at once. Methods/Materials I went into the Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade classrooms at my school. I had each student come to a back table and had them determine which product was vitamins, and which was candy. I placed the different products in plastic cups. They just had to tell me which one they thought was the candy. The products I used were: Candy - Sweet tarts, jolly rancher fruit chews, spice drops, sour patch, pez Vitamins - poly/vi/flor, toy story vitamins, jolly rancher vitamins, your life vitamins, Flinstone Complete Results Kindergarten - 29% could not determine candy from vitamins. more than I/4 of the class First Grade - 22% could not determine candy from vitamins. Second Grade - 33% cold not determine candy from vitamins. Conclusions/Discussion On average, about 1/4 of the kids could not determine the difference between candy and vitamins. This shows that kids can easily mistake this. Companies purposely try to get their vitamins to look appealing. If a child thinks it is candy and takes too many, they could have an allergic reaction, or a worse case scenario of an overdose. Parents need to put their daily vitamins out of reach of little kids. Do not leave them out.

Competition history

• CSEF 2011 Behavioral & Social Sciences · Entry J0422

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