Fortune Telling Fish

Evidence of Work

My role in my group for our Fortune Telling Fish project was too gather the resources for our experiments, carry out the experiments, come up with our ideas for possible experiments, and explaining our data. I helped introduce my hypothesis with my team and that is the one in which we used. I gathered the paper towels and got them wet to test our experiment. I also heated up the paper towels in order to test not only moisture, but also heat.

Content

The Scientific Method and How I Used It

• Problem- Figure out what's wrong. Address your problem.

Our problem is that we don't know what causes our fortune telling fish to move.

• Observation/research- Bring back round knowledge into the situation and evaluate your problem and think about how you might solve it.

In this experiment we had already examined the fish the day before and had already thought of our hypothesis.

• Hypothesis- "If the Fortune Telling Fish is exposed to moisture in the form of water, then the Fortune Telling Fish will not change. A difference in the amount of water or a change in the waters temperature also will not affect the fishes movement."
• Experiment- For our experiment my group and I used paper towels wet with water at different temperatures.
• Collect Data- We collected data by observing the experiment and recording what happened on a chart in our science notebooks.
• Analysis- We found that the moisture does make the fish move and that if you heat up the water it makes it curl tighter and faster then any other situation we tested.
• Conclusion and Communicate- In conclusion moisture and heat do cause the fortune telling fish to move in different ways.

Reflection

After my project I assessed what I did right an what areas I struggled (regarding the 6 C's).