Question

Design an experiment at home

Using available resources in your home environment, come up with an observation and question that can be answered using the scientific method. Look inside your refrigerator or kitchen cabinet/pantry where you keep your food. Look at the fruits, vegetables, meat, cereal boxes, pasta boxes, canned foods or look at your garden, your backyard or any natural environment for inspiration and elaborate a question. For example, what is the average size of blueberries; what is the average length of iceberg lettuce leaves or what is the abundance of weeds on your lawn, etc).

1. Come up with a question that you would like to address scientifically.
2. Create a testable hypothesis based on this question.
3. Design a controlled experiment or gather data to test your hypothesis. Describe the experiment or collection of data below.

Answer 1

For this type of exercise you can work on finding out the which plant has the highest population density in your garden.

This can be found by considering small squares of one meter square. These squares can be considered at different part of garden and then the number of different plants in each square can be counted. This can be done for several squares and then the average of each different plant from all squares and their comparison will tell which plant has the highest population density.

This type of experiment may be done for the given assignment.