• Question: Doon when did you do your first science project?

    Asked by 297drgj36 to Abid, Donna, Sanjib, Thomas, Avril on 12 Jun 2017.
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      Donna Johnson answered on 12 Jun 2017:

      I think probably at school, in science lessons, or more independently at university doing my final year project. At uni was the first time i had to plan a longer set of experiments and work independently towards answering a research question.

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      Avril Tucker answered on 12 Jun 2017:

      I went to school in Scotland so I did Highers & Sixth Year Studies. The first science project that I remember was during my Sixth Year and it looked at the elasticity of gluten. I made dough balls from flour and washed them in a pair of tights. What remained in the tights was gluten. I then tied weights to it to see which type of flour had the most elastic gluten. I cannay mind which flour won but I made a mess trying to find out!!

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      Sanjib Bhakta answered on 13 Jun 2017:

      Definitely in my school, most probably the first one was to do with plants life cycle…my first independent project was in university when I grew 4 different varieties of banana plants from a few lumps of cells!

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