Data Analysis

Today I have been trying to work on my data analysis. It's really hard for me and frustrating because I don't know how to explain everything that has happened in my experiment, and I don't think I have a logical explanation for all the data I have collected. So far I have been writing multiple paragraphs and just cutting them down more and more since they I'm not sure if they are saying what they should. I plan to go after school to get help.

The Last of my Primroses =(

The last of my primroses before I took them home or threw them out.

                              

This is my primrose with flowers watered with tap water

This is my primrose with the flowers removed watered with tap water

This is my primrose with flowers watered with pH 4

This is my primrose with flowers watered with pH 4

                                         

This is my primrose with the flowers removed watered with pH 4

                                         

This is my primrose with the flowers removed watered with pH 3

Data Analysis

Today I continued to work on my data analysis. I got to the more complicated part where I have to focus on all my data and compare it to the other data. After I did that for my first three days before there was a gap for the weekend I tried to figure out why each thing had happened during my experiment. That part was the hard part, I was sort of getting frustrated because the drops and rising in my data had happened after either a long weekend or one of the snow days. I feel like if I repeat that constantly in my analysis it will seem sort of like an excuse. Tomorrow I'm going to go back and try to figure out vita reasons why each thing happened not including the days we had off.

My Experiment is Over!

Today was the last day of my experiment. In class I measured the oxygen production of my primroses for the last time. I also threw out my primrose, I couldn't keep them like I had originally planned i because the ones with acid were in terrible shape and all of them had small fruit flies on there leaves and on there flowers. The ones with acid smelled awful and there petals were sticky and soggy so I had to throw them out quickly. I then cleaned my containers took off the blue tape and put my containers away. I'm sort of sad that my experiments done, it's going to be weird not going to the lab everyday after school and watering my primroses. =(

Finishing up my Table

So tonight I made sure my graph was perfect I had everyone in my family look at it to see if they found any mistakes. I edited the title so that it actually described my data, I added the pH of tap water to both of the columns. I took all the percents off of the data, so it is now just at the top part. I deleted the empty spaces under March 5 so that my graph looked complete, though this week I'll continue to take data and add onto my graph. But here is my graph so far.

What I did today

Today I mostly worked on my table and graph. I tried to redo my graph on excel like Ms. Z had said to try. Since my graph has two rows on top, with six more rows under it couldn't format correctly in excel. So I'm just going to print it out form word and make a simpler version in excel. I also worked on making my title more descriptive since it was to simple and didn't say my independent variable. I also started to organize my observations. I also tried to edit my hypothesis since it was week. I started moving the things from my experimental design to my lab report, like my hypothesis, materials and procedure. So after I come back from spring break it will be almost done.

My Graph So Far

Today since we didn't have class I went during Independent Learning and after school to collect data and to take observations. When I went to the workshop yesterday my graph didn't come out right all the points went down to 0. Ms. Z wasn't able to help me individually since there were so many students there, ad she had to show everyone the basic steps to making a general graph on excel. I went to her after school and she tried to help me figure out why my graph wasn't turning out correctly it had to do with my table. So tonight I re-did my table in excel before I made the graph again and it worked! So I made my graph today. This one is just a ruff draft I'm still editing it, ill make it perfect by Wednesday but so far heres what I have.

The Primrose Physically

The primroses with acid rain physically are doing horrible, the flowers are all brown and some of them have become formless. Most of the leaves are soggy, falling apart, and shriveled. The ones watered with acid rain however are in great shape the, over the weekend the ones with flowers wasn't doing so well it was brown and loosing its flowers but now its finally recovering and going back to its original state. The primrose that I removed the flowers from is doing well it has grown back all its flowers also.

                                                 Primrose watered with tap water with flowers

After the long weekend there brown and brittle and there is only a little pink left on each flower.

They started to recover and only have two flowers now with brown the others are healthy again but have a tiny bit of brown around the edges of them,

Today thy are almost fully recovered the petals are no longer brown but around the tips there still limp.

The primroses with and without flowers that were watered with pH for are all brown and have white fuzz coating them, they are drooping and really week. They did well over the long weekend but since I watered them with acid rain they have been crippling.

These primroses are shriveled and the flowers that had started to grow back all died or became mush. The leaves are dropping and the acid is eating through them and making holes all over.

The primroses watered with tap water that I removed the flowers from have all grown back now there are 7 flowers and 5 mall buds that are blooming under the leaves. 

What I did today

Today in class I measured the oxygen production of my primroses.  I now have seven days of data due to the snow days but I think by the end of the week I will have enough to start graphing. I think that I'm getting good results the primroses watered with acid rain physically are in terrible shape but the acid rain hasn't seemed to change the oxygen production quite as much as I had expected. Today after school I watered my primroses. On the primrose without flowers watered with pH 3 some the acid rain went to the bottom of the container instead of going to the soil, so I pretty sure it got a little less acid then the other. Over all I think that my experiment is gong well so far.

Today in Class

I was very scared when I came into class today I thought that my primroses would be dead and I would have to start over but they weren't. They weren't in the best shape but they were still living. I got good results from the primroses with flowers. The primrose watered with tap water has two flowers that are half brown and half pink, four flowers that are completely brown and the petals are soggy and falling down. There is one flower that looks like it’s recovering. The leaves are all green except for one that has brown on the center and is wilted. The primrose watered with pH 4 flowers are dark brown and formless with, they all look soggy and are falling apart. There are three leaves that are green but one of the leaves is decomposing and has four wholes in the dark brown area in the center. Some pieces of a leaf fell of and are lying on the soil brown and mushy. All the buds that had starting blooming now are brown and bending over. The primrose watered with pH 3 has one flower petal that is a really light pink, slightly white and translucent. There are four brown flowers that have white fuzz forming on the center. There are also our sepals that are wilted and falling over, one bud is forming and has a small pink flower coming out of it. The leaves are mostly green but two of tem have about half of the leaf moist and brown and yellow.