Mystery Science- Gingerbread Houses

What cookie is the main ingredient in building houses?

• chocolate chip

• gingerbread

• sugar

What are the properties of gingerbread dough?

• soft and squishy

• hard and cold

• soft and wet

Once it is baked, what are the properties of gingerbread?

• soft and squishy

• hard and stiff

• hard and wet

Which of these is flexible?

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True or false. If something is flexible, it can bend and spring back.

• true

• false

Which one has the same properties as these peppermint sticks?

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What material did they use that did the same job as bricks?

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True or false. The world's largest gingerbread house is in New York.

• true

• false

Why did they use wood to build the base of the gingerbread house?

• because it is strong, solid and hard

• because they wanted to

• because they didn't have enough gingerbread

What would happen to the chocolate house in the sun?

• It would freeze.

• It would melt.