Hi Boys,

Info from today's lesson.

Results:

 Raw data – journal – week by week measurements (if typed add as appendix)
/ Photos
 Data needs to be averaged if more than 1 plant
 Table data for each parameter
 Graph data – medium, nutrient, system
 Table of observations (drawings / photos)

Discussion: Max 1000 words

 Brief justification of why you chose your parameters i.e. how do your
parameters indicate growth.
 Discuss trends in your data. General trends over the 4 weeks.
 Explain your results (i.e. those trends) use information about your chosen
variables – expected symptoms, effects verse what happened i.e. did you
expect these results. Use research to support your results.
 Relate to your hypothesis (accept or reject)
 At least 3 references from your research

Conclusion:

 Relate back to the aim (brief summary of results)

 Accept or reject hypothesis
 Did we answer our research questions
 Relate it to a real world situation

Evaluation:

 Table for sources of error: Random & Systematic (Human,

Instrumental,Methodological) can be printed an suck in booklet.
 Areas of concern in terms of experimental design
 Ways to improve the investigation / other research
 Evaluation of the experiment
 How could we redesign the experiment
 Relate it to a real world situation

Improvements:

Dry and wet weight (mass)

Ruler measurement with smaller increments

Homeostasis
- Def’n – “steady stat” – describes how the body regulates its processes to keep the
internal conditions as stable as possible.
- Whenever physical factors change , the body detects the change and then reverses
the change – using nervous/hormonal signals – negative feedback mechanism
Paragraph DISCUSSION
- Report on relevant background information and how It affected the results
- Must try to critically analyze results with links to