Sunday, June 10, 2018

Bread Experiment

Thinking like a Scientist

  • Fair Testing
  • Mould/How it Grows?/Where it Grows?What does it grow on? Why it grows?
  • Experimenting
  • What is Mould? Funge Family.
  • Can you eat it?


Hypothesis:
Room 4 thinks that the mould in the bush outside with water will grow the fastest because it gets really damp outside.


On top of the cupboard/ with water
Window/ with water
Fridge/ with water
Tote Tray/ with water
In the bush / with water
Inside a desk/ with water
Underneath the sink/ with water
On top of the fridge. / with water

How much water? Measure and rule a line on the bag

Method:

  1. Everyone washes their hands
  2. Pass the bread around and touch it (not squish) for only six seconds
  3. Everyone touches it ONCE
  4. We fill up half of the bags with water up to the measured line.
  5. Mr Harman Places the bread in the bags
  6. We put the bags in each of the spots.
  7. One bag is wet/one is dry at each spot.






Results Table:



After 5 days
After 7 Days
After 2 weeks
Outside
Stella
Eaten by a bushman
Eaten by a bushman
Eaten by a bushman
Outside
Harry
Eaten by a bushman
Eaten by a bushman
Eaten by a bushman
Inside a Desk
Ryan
No mould
No mould
No mould
Inside a Desk
Maddie
Lots of brown dots.
Quite a bit of yellow mould
Yellow and a small patch of black mould
On top of Cupboard
Mike
No mould
No mould
No mould
On top of Cupboard
Miranda
Liquid with LOADS of mould
Watery lots of red mould/green
Watery lots of red mould/green
In Fridge
Luke
Crusty and Stale
No mould but wet
No mould but a little frozen
In Fridge
Lilly
cold/no mould
Cold and soggy/no mould
Frozen solid/no mould
In Beck’s tote tray
Maxine
Squishy small brown dots
Lots of yellow mould
Squishy Yellow and Brown Mould
In Beck’s Tote Tray
Damion
Squishy but no mould
1 spot of greeny/black mould
90% covered in green
Underneath Sink
Raymond
No mould
No mould
60% covered in green mould
Underneath Sink
Korra
Black and Purple Mould
Yellow purple green black mould
Lots of Black, red and purple mould
Control
Steven
No-mould
none
none
Window
Nick
Small brown dots
No mould bag is slightly moist
Small patches of green mould
Window
Megan
No mould Soaking wet
Yellow and green mould
Thick amounts of yellow and green mould
On top of Fridge
Alfred
No mould
Normal bag is slightly moist
Slight green mould
On top of fridge
Kayley
Squished with loads of brown mould
Paste with green and yellow mould
Paste with green and yellow mould

Analysis:

We think that the bread that grew the most mould was because it was in a dark, cold and damp place. We think that the bread that grew no mould because it was stored in a cool dry place.

Action:
We think that we will not leave our food in dark, damp places because it will grow lots of yuck black, green and purple mould. Keep your bread in the fridge.

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