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.