Right after the original meeting to find out our groups, our group limited our choices to paper or popcorn. All of us agreed we did not want to do pollution, but Victoria and I disagreed. Victoria expressed her wishes to do popcorn, but I wanted to do paper. We later stated what we thought would be a good experiment to do within each of these and Victoria and I agreed that we should do paper. I suggested that we should do PH of different paper types. These either would include different paper companies or different paper types like cardboard, cardstock, and newspaper. We have tried to have meetings to discuss our topic, but since I can not meet before school because of Studio West we have had trouble getting all of us together in one place and time. Ellie has been sick and has ACT Prep class after school, and Tara has band and many after school. I have met individually with my group, but we have yet to have a meeting all together. There is a meeting after school today where we will decide our topic and our process. Then tonight I am creating a google doc where we will all contribute on one paper and make our process and background as well as decide where and what paper types we will use in the project. I am very excited about our experiment and can't wait for Saturday.
OK so i feel so much better after that meeting today. I'm glad we got everything straightened out. now i need to know who is bringing what and if there is anything else i'm bringing besides the poster board.
ReplyDeleteGlad I finally figured out how to post on this thing. It's really sad that it took me thirty minutes to do so.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, so I'm bring cardboard. Victoria said not to bring index card, but I'll bring a few just in case we end up missing something.
OK awesome. Well today we wrote up the whole process and what were going to need to do tomorrow. We worked for about 2 hours so hopefully we covered everything. Since I cant post a main post of here (or just cant figure it out) I'll just say what we did today on the comments. So we wrote out all of the procedure and met all of the requirements in the rubric (that we could without actual data) so the poster should be pretty easy tomorrow. We all got the materials that we needed and everything is ready. I can't wait for tomorrow, we are going to have so much fun and hopefully we wont have to stay till 5!
ReplyDeletewe just gathered the five different types of paper (cardstock, compuer paper, newspaper, construction paper, and cardboard). we measured five sets of each different type of paper each weighing 10 mL each. so far, we have mixed the computer paper, newspaper, and cardstock each with 200 mL of distilled water and put them in the blender and pulped them. after each one was pulped, we measured the pH level of them. so far, the newspaper is the most acidic.
ReplyDeletewe just finsished the hour long watch of the pH of cardstock. According to the data we collected, the cardstock gradually went basic.
Deletewe just finished with measuring the pH of the computer paper. It remained around 8 for the first three trials, but on the last two trials, it dropped to around 5. According to the data collected, it dropped from basic to acidic.
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