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  What was the first science experiment you ever designed? How did it turn out?

  
  
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Recent Posts

JEAK Kayla Pennerman Dec 13, 2017

Thank you for your hard work! Have a great holiday!

JEAK Kayla Pennerman Dec 4, 2017

Hi all,

I don't know what questions #14a-h are, but looking at the answers:

I see that your hypothesis was that the salt would make photosynthesis work more slowly. Why did you think that? Even when the hypothesis seems to be wrong…

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Hi all,

I don't know what questions #14a-h are, but looking at the answers:

I see that your hypothesis was that the salt would make photosynthesis work more slowly. Why did you think that? Even when the hypothesis seems to be wrong (happens more often than not in science!) you should always try justify your hypotheses. Example: We believed that the addition of 0.25% salt to the water would decrease the rate of photosynthesis because [insert reason: do plants dislike salt? does salt hurt the chloroplasts?].

For statistical analysis, has your class talked about taking the averages of trials and making graphs? You can quickly make graphs online: https://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/ or https://www.onlinecharttool.com/graph?selected_graph=line. I'm uploading an example that I made with only the data of the second trial (you would have to get the averages of your trials).

JEAK Kayla Pennerman Dec 2, 2017

So, what do the results tell you? Would you want to try again to see if you get the same results?