Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1.  What is your essential question?

What is the best way to maintain a commercial pool for public use?

2.  What is your second answer to your essential question?

The best way to maintain a commercial pool for public use is to use Sand filters.

3.  What are three details to support or justify your second answer?

They require little to no maintenance.
The sand will last about as long as the machine itself.
It meets the regulations reinforced by law.

4.  What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?


Source 11.a

5.  What do you plan to study next with your second answer and why?  (You would say "I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by doing ____________"?)

I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by collecting information on pools from the casinos in Vegas and getting my Mentor's input on the matter.

Blog 5b: Science Fair Proposal

1. What is your topic?

Water Care

2. What is the driving problem behind your experiment and the quote by an expert to support that problem?

Public pools are a big project to keep clean and require daily maintenance.
"To do this, all you need is devotion and an understanding of basic high school chem." Joe Dumont

3. What is your hypothesis?


If chlorine has a high molarity, then it will kill more Paramecium Cilia.

4. Write a paragraph summary of how you will perform the experiment.  

I will first make contact with Mrs. Cancino to make sure I will be able to use her microscopes. Then, I will collect the necessary amount of my sample water, which needs to be stagnant, and record the number of bacteria living in each sample. After I've made my observations I will add the chlorine of varying molarity to my samples and record the amount of bacteria killed over time.