Grace's Inquiry-Lifesaver

1.  Why do Wintergreen Lifesavers spark in the dark?

2.  http://kids.discovery.com/activities/science-experiments/lig

http://thehappyscientist.com/science-experiment/light-lifesaver

• I learned that they spark in the dark.
• It works best with wintergreen lifesavers.
• You see miniaturized lightning.

3.  My hypothesis:  When you chew the LifeSaver, it sometimes clicks and that makes it spark.

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5.  I saw some sparks. Other people saw sparks too.

6. The lifesaver cannot be sugarfree. When you bite the sugar crystals it makes it spark because it has sugar in it. The lifesaver has to be hard so that the sugar crystals can make it spark. The lifesaver mint has to be Wintergreen because the oil makes us able to see the spark.  When you put pressure on the sugar crystals it makes a spark and the wintergreen lifesaver makes the sugar crystals make sparks you can see.