Lab Report DONE!!!

I turned in my lab report today during CWP which felt really good. I feel like I worked really hard on it and I'm glad that I'm not as stressed out as I know a lot of other people are. Some of my friends didn't take advantage of Spring Break to work, so I'm almost glad that I didn't go away in that respect. I started to work on my presentation last night, and want to be done with it by this weekend so that I have plenty of time to edit and to write my script (I don't want to be rushing at the last minute like I know a lot of people are with this lab report!).

Lab Report --> Presentation

I finished by lab report today which I'm really happy about because I know that a lot of people aren't even close to done, and will be cramming tonight and tomorrow. I am also going to start my powerpoint presentation tonight so that I don't have to stress over it too too much next week, since it is due Tuesday (April 5th).

(blogging for yesterday)

I went to see Mrs. Wiessman today, and we talked about how I can edit my lab report as well as what I need to add onto it to make it even better. I also need to figure out a way to label my axis on the graph that I made in Excel (but I think that I know how to do that).

Graph

I finished my graph today, and I am almost done with my lab report, I just have to read over every thing... then I'm done!

Here's a copy of my graph:

I only graphed the number of brine shrimp alive in each tank because I thought that it would be redundant to graph the number of brine shrimp both dead and alive (since the number of brine shrimp dead can be figured out from looking at a graph of the number alive).

(more) Lab Report Work

I worked on my lab report a lot more today. I was able to get everything up to (or over) its required word count. I was a bit confused because the "suggested word count" sheet suggested that our data be 300-750 words. I was able to add more to my conclusion so that it is no 501 words (yay!). I still have a lot more work to do though!

Lab Report Work

I worked on my lab report today. I found a guide/outline, to help me write my lab report, on moodle. I had a hard time figuring out what goes into my data analysis vs. what goes into my conclusion, but I looked back at past lab reports of mine (from both this year and last) and I was able to answer my own questions.

An Additional Experimental Error

As I was working on my lab report, I thought of yet another experimental error. That is that, in a real lake, if the water were to evaporate, that would increase the salinity of the lake, because when the water evaporates, the salt doesn't evaporate with it. I think that this experiment addressed one very specific problem: space restriction, that being said, I think that there are many ways that I could have made it more "real world-ly" and realistic. For example, I could have allowed the water to evaporate under a heat lamp, but there was, unfortunately, insufficient time for such an experiment. I would have loved to have seen the results from this experiment, and think that much further experimentation is not only absolutely necessary, but vital to the preservation of many national parks, reserves, and many species all around the world.