Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

What do I do if my experiment does't work on one of the last days?

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Hi Maca - To receive help from Ask an Expert volunteers, you need to provide much more specific information regarding your project, what you were doing, what happened, your hypothesis, and so on. If you post with detailed information, an expert may be able to help you evaluate what to do at this stage in your project.

Amy
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dear maca,

i have to agree with amy. you need to provide more information on your project. what plants are you doing and what exactly are you testing on them? i have seen many projects while in middle school that have to do with plants. how do they grow different with music, is salt water better to water with them, and the most common one is will sprinkling sugar on the plant. there are many other ones, so what is yours?

casandra

Sometimes experiments don't work--this is true in science fairs and in professional research labs, too.

Frequently you can still learn something from the project that you can turn in/present. For example, you can explore questions like:

-Why didn't the experiment work the way you expected?
-Were there variables that could have been better controlled?
-What might you do differently if you had time to repeat the experiment?

Even a so-called "failure" is an opportunity for learning.

our science fair is about does garavity affect the dirrection plants grow? well Casandra an Amy what should i put in my science fair analysis? i need help??
my teacher is very rough




thanks so much

Maca ::

ive gotta do a basic conclusion in my analysis???

Dear Maca,

My apologies for not getting back to you so soon. Just like you, I too am working on a science fair project due March 15th. Although mine is not as complicated as yours. Measuring human heartbeats during songs is as easy as it sounds. Back to your question....

It is not a question that i can personally answer. However, I can give you my opinion. Gravity has a great effect on many "objects" (humans, furniture, animals, etc...) Plants, however do get an affect in their growth when it comes to gravity.

Question:How??

Answer: When plants grow, the stem and leaves grow upward while the roots grow downward. The direction that a plant grows has nothing to do with the way that you plant a seed. Stems always find their way up and roots always find their way down. This is because of gravity. Gravity tries to pull things to the center of the earth, which is why we dont float, and plants grow the way they do. If there is no gravity (which is clearly impossible, unless youre in space) then the plant will not grow at all.

GOOD LUCK

▬CASANDRA▬

hey maca!

how did your science fair turn out? based on the info, it should have helped you. If it didnt work out, then let me know what went wrong and we can see if we can fix them.

▬Casandra▬