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**Experiment on Living Matter**
Basic Plan--**What are you planning to do?** I want to see if I can change the color of the leaves over a period of time by using many different food colorings. To check that this experiment has at least a chance of working i'm going to try it on a few bean sprout plants over the period of a week. I want to see which color makes the biggest effect, how long it takes to change, and how it effects the growth of the plant compared to using normal water. At the end of the experiment I will take a piece of each individual plant to compare the cells under a microscope. || Dependent Variable Name: amount of dye in plant and plant growth. What instrument will you use to make your measurements? beaker and dye dropper What units will your measurements be in? mL and amount of drops. What do you expect the uncertainty in these measurements to be? (+/- ?) The water will always be definite, but the dye depends on the color, since some dye colors are stronger shown than others. || Independent Variable Name: the color dye solution and the time What instrument will you use to make measurements of this variable? The color dye and time/date. What units will your measeurements be in? none What do you expect the uncertainty in these measurements to be? (+/- ?) This depends on how the beginning of the experiment looks like. If it starts to be shown positive and succesful then i will continue in the same pattern. || The color dye+water solution. This variable is important because i need to make sure my experiment is accurate so then i can prove it a success. I will make sure i use the beaker and dropper correctly and reflecting back on my data of the previous days, so the plants are all at the same level. || - 4 different color dyes (yellow, dark green, blue, pink) - Water - beaker - 4 plastic cups - fertilized soil || I am hoping that they will grow with some evidence of the color dye in their cells and/or pigments. Since i am also growing some beans (AND OTHER TYPE OF SEEDS) using the wet tissue technique, this is also kept in a dark drawer with the rest of the small pots. This will help my analysis at the end when i compare them all, so i can see which situation worked best and why. ||
 * ~ FINAL RESULTS (photos)
 * "**Grand Idea**"--What is an important/interesting problem that relates to your investigation?
 * Will the color of the plant and its leaves change depending on the color of the water? ** ||
 * **Dependent variable** (this is what you will measure and //depends on// the value of the independent variable
 * **Independent variable** (this is what you will change to see how it affects the dependent variable)
 * **Variables to Control** (what variables seem significant enough that you will be careful to keep them controlled? For each of these variables, explain briefly how you will be try to control them?)
 * **Materials and Setup** (Include both a list of materials that you will need and a labeled sketch to clarify the setup)
 * **Procedure** First I planted 4 beans into four seperate plastic cups. labeling each one. I then watered them, added a drop of their corresponding food-coloring color, and kept them in a drawer. Every 2 days (when I have science class) I would take them out water them, and add 1 drop of their coloring each, then placed them back into the drawer. After 2 or 3 classes I realized that to get better results I should do my experiment on more then one type of plant. So I started the experiment on another seed type, using the same range of food-colorings, and labelling each. This way, I could obtain even more results. ||
 * ** Background Understanding and Expectations** (What are you expecting and why?)
 * **Data Table** (make a data table with appropriate column headings; you can leave values for the dependent variable blank at first, but write down a few values of the independent variable that you plan to use) ||