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Hi Team!
I see you've got some of your experimental design sorted out. That's great! Could you please start filling out some of the experimental info section? It will help to get your experiment set up in a way that other scientists can look at and understand later.
I do have a question about your procedure: In step 11, you say water with 50 mL of water. Will all of the containers be watered with water, or will the coke and gatorade containers get coke and gatorade?
What is your hypothesis? What do you think will happen? Which liquids will help the seeds grow better? What will you be measuring? How will you be measuring it?
It's important to imagine every part of the experiment before you start so that you can figure out all of the steps that you'll need to take to get the kind of data you want.
Please ask any questions you have as you set up your experiment and get started!
Kate
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"It's important to imagine every part of the experiment before you start so that you can figure out all of the steps that you'll need to take to get the kind of data you want." This part of the post really stood out to me because of how it clearly and simply states something so important and fundamental to science. I've struggled to impart this same wisdom to my teams, and I particularly like how it encourages students to look forward to the very end of their projects and what 'kind of data you want.'
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