Monday, April 30, 2012

Bacteria Experiment

Research Question:  Does bacteria grow on honey?

Hypothesis:  No bacteria grows on honey. 

Materials: 
3 bowls, brown sugar, honey, water, Q-tip swab from a nose, plastic wrap and bread

Procedure:
  1. 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.  
  2. The Q-tip swab rubbed around inside the nose.
  3. The Q-tip swab was then stirred around in bowl #1 (water).
  4. Steps 2 and 3 were repeated for bowl #2 (water and sugar) and #3 (water and honey).
  5. Plastic wrap was put over bowls 1, 2, and 3 and they were labeled and put on a tray. 
  6. Wait for 15 days.
  7.  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.

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. 



Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Celery vasculature

 A few days ago we did a celery experiment. When the water evaporates from the leaves through stomata, it creates suction.  The suction pulls the water up to the leaves through pipes in the stalk.
then it evaporate.  It's part of the water cycle!

In the second part of the experiment, we split the stalk.  Then we put the two sides in two different colors of water, red and green.  While the leaves were still green, we drew a picture of the plant.  We waited a day to see what happened. 
can you see green?
 can you see red?
this is the stalk filled with veins.
the veins are filled with food coloring and water.
 the plant looks like a tree.
Here are the entrances to the pipes.