Table 1
Objective: The objective is to find out which temperature pill bugs prefer most: ;warm or cold.
Hypothesis: If we place rolly pollies on a petri dish that’s cool on one side and warm on the other, then the majority will go on the warmer side.
Materials used:1 petri dish, 5 rolly pollies, 1 warm and wet paper towel, and 1 cool and wet paper towel.
Procedure:
gathered materials
wet two paper towels
microwave one of the towels for one
minute
place both paper towels under the petri
dish dividing the dish in half
place five rolly pollies in the middle
and see which side they choose
Data collected :
Analysis: (was your hypothesis supported/refuted, what trends did you see? What would you do differently the next time? Was there any error in your lab procedures? What further questions did you have after doing this experiment?)
Data collected : The majority of the rolly pollies prefered the cooler side
Analysis: .
The rolly pollies did the exact opposite the next time we do t
his experiment we would make the temperature of the paper towel a bit
more extreme. if we made any mistakes it would have been not making the two temperatures different enough.
Table 2
Objective: To see how many pill bugs out of five would curl up into a ball to prove that pillbugs curl up into a ball to protect themselves. -Mik
Hypothesis: If we poke a pillbug, then it will curl up into a tight ball in protection. -Mik
Materials used:pencil, finger, pen, petri dish, 5 isopods. -miguel
Procedure: We poked five isopods and recorded how many rolled into a ball out of the five.William (Thurnis) Island
Data collected : In the first trial, all five of the isopods did not roll up into a ball.
In the second trial, four out of five of the roll up into balls.
In the third trial, there were also four out of five isopods that rolled up into a ball.- Brianna
Analysis: (was your hypothesis supported/refuted, what trends did you see? What would you do differently the next time? Was there any error in your lab procedures? What further questions did you have after doing this experiment?)
Our hypothesis was somewhat supported by the data, since in the first experiment, no isopods curled up, but some did in the other trials.-Miguel
Next time we’d try poking the isopods similarly with the same materials.
After this experiment, we’re still curious why some pillbugs did not roll into the ball. -Liliana
Table 3
Objective: See what pill bugs usually eat in their environments.
Hypothesis: If we put an apple and some grass in a jar with a few pill bugs, then the pill bugs would eat the apple more than the grass.
Materials used:
-glass jar/petri dish -Slice of apple
-Pill bugs -grass
Procedure:
1)Collect all Materials
2)Put the pill bugs into the dish along with the food
3)Leave the food in the dish with the isopods
4)See which food is consumed the most
5)Collect the data
Data collected :
the pill bugs ate more of the grass then they ate of the decaying slice of apple.
Analysis: (was your hypothesis supported/refuted, what trends did you see? What would you do differently the next time? Was there any error in your lab procedures? What further questions did you have after doing this experiment)
The trends we saw were that the pill bug with the grass had consumed more than the one with the apple. We would give more time to experiment and observe the eating habits of pill bugs. No because the pill bugs usually eat dead plant materials and there was only one change to the diet. If we were to give a different plant or fresh food would it still consume the material?
Table 4
Objective:To see how fast pillbugs solve a maze when different music is played.
Hypothesis: If the pillbugs have music, then they will travel through the maze faster.
Materials used:-maze -music player -stopwatch
-pillbug -pencil
Procedure: Place the pill bug (Test Subject A) in the maze, start the stopwatch, play no music and nudge it forward if it isn’t moving. Stop the stopwatch when it reaches the end of the maze. Remove subject A from the maze. Place the second pill bug (Test Subject B) in the maze and play classical music. Nudge it through if needed. When subject B completes the maze, stop the stopwatch and remove subject B from the maze. Place the 3rd pillbug (Subject C) in the maze and repeat the process with country music.
Data acquired:
Subject A: no music. time: 3m 24s
Subject B: classical music. time: 2m 56s
Subject C: country music. time: 2m 15s
Analysis: (was your hypothesis supported/refuted, what trends did you see? What would you do differently the next time? Was there any error in your lab procedures? What further questions did you have after doing this experiment?)
Our hypothesis was supported because we believed that the pillbugs would travel faster with music than without and they did. We saw that the pillbugs solved the maze faster after each experiment. We would test more pillbugs to each type of music to get more accurate results. After the experiment we wondered how the pillbugs would react to other types of music. One thing is clear, pillbugs love them some good ol’ country music.
Table 5
Objective: We want to test weather pill bugs prefer the dark.-Jazmine
To test whether a pill bug is more attracted to dark areas or light areas. -Aliyah
Hypothesis: Our hypothesis is the pill bugs will make there way to the dark with in one minute.-Jazmine
If a pill bug is in the light and there is a darker area in sight, then they will gravitate to the dark area. -Aliyah
Materials used:
- 3 pill bugs
- paper cover
- petri dish
- TImer -Raffi
glass cylinder, 3 pillbugs, piece of paper -Aliyah
Procedure: We first observe the pill bugs, when there is no paper covering half the petri dish. Then place paper cover over half of the dish and observe to see if they make their way to the dark half.-Jazmine
1. Put the pill bugs in the glass cylinder
2. Covered one side of the glass cylinder with a piece of paper
3. Analyzed the pillbugs to see where they would gravitate to
4. recorded data -Anthony Morales
Data collected :Analysis: (was your hypothesis supported/refuted, what trends did you see? What would you do differently the next time? Was there any error in your lab procedures? What further questions did you have after doing this experiment?)
I believe our hypothesis was refuted. If asked to do different next time, I would do the experiment in the pillbugs’ natural environment . I think not making it completely dark was probably a fallacy of ours. I still would like to know if pillbugs prefer dark areas or light areas. -Aliyah
I believe our hypothesis was successful because we wanted the pillbugs to go in the dark and thats what they did. to me there was no error in our experiment. the only thing i would have done differently would be that we do this project outside in the sun instead of indoors.- Jennifer Amaya
Raffi
Anthony Morales
Table 6
Objective:
We will flash the light at the pillbug and see if it will try to move away from the light. -Desiree Felix
Hypothesis:
If we expose the Isopod to light then it will move to the dark.
- Desiree Felix/ Lilybet Figueroa
Materials used: -Cheyenne Hernandez
-flashlight
-shoe box
-pillbugs
Procedure: cut a small hole into the box then flash the light in the box directing it at the pillbug, and record the data. -Cheyenne Hernandez
Data collected : The Pill bugs crawled away from the light. They tried to get out of the box. -Lilybet Figueroa/ Mark ajina
Analysis: (was your hypothesis supported/refuted, what trends did you see? What would you do differently the next time? Was there any error in your lab procedures? What further questions did you have after doing this experiment?)
Our hypothesis was supported when the pill bugs tried to escape the light and go into the darkness. The thing we would do differently is have 2 separate boxes that connect into one, one with a lid and one without. so that way the pill bugs had a larger space and more opportunity to escape the light. -danielle soto/ Mark ajina
There were no errors in the lab.My only question is why do pillbugs hate the light. -Cynthia Alverez