Week 1

Thursday

February 14, 2008

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

The purpose of my experiment is to expose tulip bulbs to different environments to see how much energy each environment requires of them. This will be found by measuring how much energy they used from their storage leaves (a.k.a. bulbs). They will be weighed before and after the experiment.

I received eighty "Darwin Hybrid" tulip bulbs from Dr. McFarland. First I sorted them into eight groups of ten. Then, I tried to get each bag as close in weight as possible.

The tag that came with the tulip bulbs.

Some bulbs were weighed on a scale.

Each test was weighed to ensure that they were all close to the same weight.

Each bag was labeled by weight.