After more than a month of not being able to meet as a full group for various reasons, the four of us got together on the Square again. The goal of today's meeting was to do a lot of research and hopefully get much of the experiment's design finalized.
Kelsey did a lot of independent research before the official meeting, and the rest of us considered ideas of experiments to propose before we came. We started the meeting off by sharing the work we had done since the last meeting and our ideas for a potential experiment. The idea we ended up choosing to develop further focused on the relationship between the amount of certain pigments in plants and the rate of photosynthesis.
After we all had a general idea of what our experiment would be, we began doing some research to see what other experiments had shown on the topic and whether we would be able to carry out the experiment in the way that we initially imagined.
We debated for a long time about the best way to carry out the project and we did a lot of research. Once we had an understanding of exactly what we were trying to measure and how to approach it, such as how to work the colorimeter and how to extract pigments from the plants, we began making a lot more progress. We also identified many variables to control throughout the experiment. At the end of the meeting, we all had a better understanding of how we were going to approach the project and how the colorimeter would work. We laid out a basic design outline and have plans to go home and solidify the list of materials and procedures before school starts. We are going to use a Google document so that everyone can work on the project simultaneously and make live edits.
Total Hours Spent on Group 4 Project:
Colton: 3 hours
Katie: 3 hours
Rebecca: 3 hours
Kelsey: 4 hours
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