PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Scientific Question
If honey is applied to the water in which a flower is living, will the flower be affected?
Hypothesis
If Honey is applied to a flower’s water then it will stay fresh longer because it has some necessary sugar.
Materials
6 Flowers in good health, 2 identical vases, measuring cup, water, honey, scissors
Instructions
Items needed : 6 good health flowers, 2 vases of the same size, a spoon, scissors, a window by the sun, and water.
Instructions
1 Get 2 flower vases and fill one up 1000 millimeters
2 Split the water evenly between the two vases and mark one vase A and the other vase B.
3 Take 2 millimeters of honey and stir them into vase A
4 Take 2 flowers, cut the stem to 12 cm each, and put one in each vase.
5 Place both vases as close to each other as possible in full sunligh
6) record the flowers’ petal amount and measure each stem from the base to the part where it droops on the graph
7) stand 15cm away from each flower and breath in for 3 seconds and record the quality of the smell on the graph
8) record the stem color on the graph
9) repeat step 5 through 8 for 7 days
10) Create a Conclusion on what happened during your experiment.
Variables and Control
Dependent Variables: Height of Flowers, Petals Fallen, Smell of Flower, Color of stem.
Independent Variable: 50mm of honey
Experimental Group: Group A, the flowers with Honey
Control Group: Group B, the Flowers in regular water.
Controlled Variables: Amount of sunlight, Amount of water in vases, Same Flower Type, Same Health at Beginning.
Control (Left group)
This group had no honey in the water.
QUALITATIVE DATA DAY 1
These flowers were fresh and produced no smell. The stem color was all green
QUANTITATIVE DATA DAY 1
There were no leaves fallen off the flower, and the length of the stems were all 12 centimeters.
Experimental (Right group)
This group had honey in the water.
QUALITATIVE DATA DAY 1
These flowers were fresh and produced no smell. The stem color was all green
QUANTITATIVE DATA DAY 1
There were no leaves fallen off the flower, and the length of the stems were all 12 centimeters.
Control (Left group)
This group had no honey in the water.
QUALITATIVE DATA DAY 2
These flowers were mildly fresh and produced no smell. The stem color was all green except one small brown dot on one of the flowers
QUANTITATIVE DATA DAY 1
There were no leaves fallen off the flower, and the length of the stems avarage was 11.4 centimeters.
Experimental (Right group)
This group had honey in the water.
QUALITATIVE DATA DAY 1
These flowers were fresh and produced no smell. The stem color was all green except a small brown spot.
QUANTITATIVE DATA DAY 2
There were no leaves fallen off the flower, and the length of the stems were 11.5 centimeters.
Control (Left group)
This group had no honey in the water.
QUALITATIVE DATA DAY 3
These flowers were in good health and produced a slight grass like smell. The stem color was mostly green with a few brown dots on the flowers
QUANTITATIVE DATA DAY 3
There were no leaves fallen off the flower, and the length of the stems average was 10.9 centimeters.
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Experimental (Right group)
This group had honey in the water.
QUALITATIVE DATA DAY 3
These flowers were mildly fresh and produced a slight smell. The stem color was all green except a brown spot on 2 flowers
QUANTITATIVE DATA DAY 3
There were no leaves fallen off the flower, and the length of the stems were all 11.2 centimeters.
Control (Left group)
This group had no honey in the water.
QUALITATIVE DATA DAY 4
These flowers were in mild health and produced a smell of fresh cut grass. The stem color still was mostly green but the shades of brown were darker.
QUANTITATIVE DATA DAY 4
There were no leaves fallen off the flower, and the length of the stems were 10.5 centimeters.
Experimental (Right group)
This group had honey in the water.
QUALITATIVE DATA DAY 4
These flowers were in good health and produced a grass smell. The stem color was mostly green.
QUANTITATIVE DATA DAY 4
There were no leaves fallen off the flower, and the length of the stems were 10.5 centimeters.
Control (Left group)
This group had no honey in the water.
QUALITATIVE DATA DAY 5
These flowers were fresh and produced a strong smell. The stem color was half green half brown
QUANTITATIVE DATA DAY 1
There were no leaves fallen off the flower, and the length of the stems average was 9.3 centimeters.
Experimental (Right group)
This group had honey in the water.
QUALITATIVE DATA DAY 5
These flowers were in mild health and produced a grassy smell. The stem color was half and half green and brown
QUANTITATIVE DATA DAY 5
There were no leaves fallen off the flower, and the length of the stems were 9.7 centimeters.
Control (Left group)
This group had no honey in the water.
QUALITATIVE DATA DAY 6
These flowers were in fair health and produced a strange smell. The stem color was green and brown.
QUANTITATIVE DATA DAY 1
There were no leaves fallen off the flower, and the length of the stems average was 8.6 centimeters.
Experimental (Right group)
This group had honey in the water.
QUALITATIVE DATA DAY 6
These flowers were in fair health and produced a strong grass smell. The stem color was green and brown
QUANTITATIVE DATA DAY 6
There were no leaves fallen off the flower, and the length of the stems were 9.1 centimeters.
Control (Left group)
This group had no honey in the water.
QUALITATIVE DATA DAY 7
These flowers were in fair health and produced a strange smell. The stem color was green and brown.
QUANTITATIVE DATA DAY 7
There were no leaves fallen off the flower, and the length of the stems average was 7.9 centimeters.
Experimental (Right group)
This group had honey in the water.
QUALITATIVE DATA DAY 7
These flowers were not in fair health and produced a strong fresh cut grass smell. The stem color was dark brown and green
QUANTITATIVE DATA DAY 7
There were no leaves fallen off the flower, and the length of the stems were 8.5 centimeters.
Analysis
In this experiment, the data was surprising. The experimental variable should have helped group A live longer, but helped minimally. I think what killed the flowers too fast was the amount of sunlight the flowers were exposed to.
Conclusion
If flowers are placed in honey water, then they will live longer. The conclusion of this experiment is that the hypothesis worked, but only minimally. Most of the data was the same or close to the same. At the end both flowers were close to dead. If the experiment was to be performed again, the flowers should be placed in less sunlight and have more honey. The extra honey would give the flower more sugar to live longer.
