1. Science Fair:
Question: What stimulates more the brain, cinnamon or peppermint candy?
Things that we already know:
Some benefits of peppermint are:
Helps to stimulate your brain,
Helps your digestive system,
It controls nauseas and headaches,
Helps you with respiratory disorders (cough),
Controls fever, asthma,
Helps skin care, pimples,
Helps female sterility,
Helps cancer,
Helps oral care,
As an addictive in food stuffs, cooking, personal products and home products,
Helps in insect bites,
Helps as an stimulant for appetitive
Some benefits for cinnamon are:
Helps blood: it regulates your blood circulation,
Contains calcium: it makes your bones and teeth stronger,
Helps your heart: it is very effective in safeguarding the heart and protecting arteries from damage
(infections), because of its anti-inflammatory properties.
Respiratory problems: it helps when you have the flu and when you have colds.
Observations:
The scent of peppermint helps people to concentrate better, for alertness, to focus, and also for motivation
and performance, it lowers fatigue, anxiety and frustration, aside from stimulating your alertness, it can
stimulate your brain in additional ways. The scent travels to the limbic system in your brain (where it supports
a variety of functions, including emotion, behavior, motivation, long-term memory, and olfaction. It has a
great deal to do with the formation of memories.), it affects your hormones and your moods. The smell of
peppermint can boost your mood and uplift you so you feel more refreshed and rejuvenated.
And the same goes to cinnamon, when smelling cinnamon the scent travels to the limbic system where it
boost cognitive function, memory, performance of certain tasks and increase one’s alertness and
concentration.

2. Experiment:
Material:
20 memory game cards
Peppermint spray
Cinnamon
Paper
Pencil
Timer
4 volunteers
Procedure for the experiment:
First put the 20 memory cards right side up. Then put the timer counting 20 seconds.
The peppermint girl/boy (without eating the peppermint) plays the memory game and we take the time and
correct/incorrect answers.
Then the peppermint girl/boy eats the peppermint and plays again. We count how many correct/incorrect
answers she/he had.
The same procedure goes to cinnamon girl/boy.
Conclusion:
Both cinnamon and peppermint improved more the brain in time, but comparing both, cinnamon just added
1 mistake and reduced time in seconds, but peppermint added 3 mistakes and reduced time in minutes. But
by taking the average of both, cinnamon won with:
Time: 43 seconds
Mistakes: 5
And peppermint lost with the average of:
Time: 51 seconds
Mistakes: 8
-Fernanda Chavaría #5
-Valeria Flores #8
-Mariana Garza #10
-Diana Lozano #14
-Sofía Reyes #18