Hypothesis: No bacteria grows on honey.
Materials:
3 bowls, brown sugar, honey, water, Q-tip swab from a nose, plastic wrap and bread
Procedure:
- We put sugar and water in one bowl, honey and water in a second bowl, and in the third bowl we put in just water.
- The Q-tip swab rubbed around inside the nose.
- The Q-tip swab was then stirred around in bowl #1 (water).
- Steps 2 and 3 were repeated for bowl #2 (water and sugar) and #3 (water and honey).
- Plastic wrap was put over bowls 1, 2, and 3 and they were labeled and put on a tray.
- Wait for 15 days.
- We wrote down three observations.
Our Materials Day 0
Water Control Day 2:
Observations: nothing in the water
Water and Sugar Day 2:
Observations: little blob in the water/sugar
Water and Honey Day 2:
Observations: little blob in the water/honey
Day 10: Observations:
nothing has changed.
Change in procedure: put bread into each bowl to enhance the medium.
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| Day 10: water and honey |
Day 10: water and brown sugar
Day 10: water control
Day 15: Liam making observations
Day 15: Water control:
Observations: You can hardly see any growth of bacteria.
Day 15: Water and sugar:
Observations: Sugar has the second most amount of bacteria.
Day 15: Water and honey:
Observations: Honey has the most amount of bacteria.
Conclusions: does bacteria grow on honey? Yes, bacteria does grow on honey.
Our hypothesis, that bacteria does not grow on honey, is false.
