Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Daphnia Lab: Last day

Tuesday & Wednesday (5/30 & 5/31) are the last days to work on the Daphnia lab in class. Students were given sentence frames for the analysis portion and made a chart & graph in google sheets. This should give students all of the tools that they need to be able to complete the lab report outside of class.

Lab reports should be submitted by Friday at 11:59pm on google classroom.

Example graph and data table in sheets

Sentence frames for analysis paragraph 1
The science question being investigated was _________________________.
The data showed _________________________.
Based on research about ____________________, heart rate should increase/decrease because _____________.
* Students should include a section about how Daphnia perform homeostasis. What is homeostasis? How was homeostasis being performed by the Daphnia?


Sentence frames for analysis paragraph 2
Possible sources of error are_______________.
To improve this experiment, the following changes are suggested _______________.


Sentence frames for analysis paragraph 3
The hypothesis was: If ________________ then ___________________ because __________.
The data collected supports / does not support the hypothesis. 
When _____________________was added to the Daphnia's environment, then the heart rate increased / decreased to ________________ beats per minute (bpm).


Framing the Question1 point possible for each component
1 paragraph about Daphnia1
1 paragraph about experimental variable1
1 paragraph about experiment1
Science Question1
Hypothesis1
In-text citations?1
Designing an Investigation
Materials listed1
Experimental set-up explained1
Data Collection: Control explained1
Data Collection: Independent variables explained1
Collecting and Presenting Data
Data Table1
Graph 1
Results summary paragraph1
Multiple trials1
Analyzing & Interpreting Results
Homeostasis1
Paragraph explaining results1
Paragraph explaining limitations1
Paragraph restating hypothesis, supported?1
Bibliography
Resources properly listed1
TOTAL SCORE1957/55

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