How Do Amounts of pH Affect a Sponge’s Performance
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Research Plan:
- 1.Take out 9 bowls.
- 2.pour water into a measuring cup, fill the measuring cup to 8 oz.
- 3.Pour the water into one of the nine bowls.
- 4.Repeat steps 2 and 3 till all 9 bowls have 8oz of water.
- 5. Set a timer for 10 min. DO NOT PRESS START.
- 6.Put the 9 sponges in the water at the same time as pressing play on the 10 minute timer.
- 7.While the ten minute timer is still going, take nine more bowls and place them on a nearby flat surface.
- 8.Use the measuring cup again (which you must rinse and dry out) to measure 8oz. of Orange Juice. Repeat 3 times and add the orange juice to three of the empty bowls.
- 9.Use the measuring cup again (which you must rinse and dry out) to measure 8oz. of Green tea Repeat 3 times and add the Green tea to three of the empty bowls.
- 10.Use the measuring cup again (which you must rinse and dry out) to measure 8oz. of water Repeat 3 times and add the water to the last three empty bowls.
- Please note: If you would like to add post-it notes to mark which bowl is holding each liquid feel free to do it. It is also highly advised.
- 11.When the timer for ten minutes runs out remove the sponges and put the leftover water in the measuring cup after you clean it again write down how much water the sponge absorbed
- 11B.When the sponge is taken out of any liquid throughout the procedure squeeze out the extras and use a hair dryer to finish drying it then you may put the sponge in the next liquid. This will apply to every time you take a sponge out of a liquid.
- 12.put the sponges in the other bowls that you just prepared which are holding water, green tea, and O.J. Set a timer for 24 Hours immediately.
- 9.Use the measuring cup again (which you must rinse and dry out) to measure 8oz. of Green tea Repeat 3 times and add the Green tea to three of the empty bowls.
- 10.Use the measuring cup again (which you must rinse and dry out) to measure 8oz. of water Repeat 3 times and add the water to the last three empty bowls.
- Please note: If you would like to add post-it notes to mark which bowl is holding each liquid feel free to do it. It is also highly advised.
- 11.When the timer for ten minutes runs out remove the sponges and put the leftover water in the measuring cup after you clean it again write down how much water the sponge absorbed
- 11B.When the sponge is taken out of any liquid throughout the procedure squeeze out the extras and use a hair dryer to finish drying it then you may put the sponge in the next liquid. This will apply to every time you take a sponge out of a liquid.
- 12.put the sponges in the other bowls that you just prepared which are holding water, green tea, and O.J. Set a timer for 24 Hours immediately.
- 13.Clean the other bowls and reset the bowls to be holding 8oz. each again. (all nine of the original water holding bowls).
- 14.When the 24hr. Timer goes off, puts the sponges (after you repeat step 11B.) into the newly prepared water and sets a timer for 10 min. PRESS START IMMEDIATELY.
- 15. After ten minutes take the sponges out of the water and dump the leftover water from each bowl (keep separate and do one at a time). into the measuring cup. Write down the amount left for each.
- 16. Look at the amount of pH in each of the liquids and see if the amount of pH affects the amount of water a sponge can absorb from the amount the sponge absorbed in the beginning compared to the end.
- 17. Record your data.
- 16. Clean up all materials.
Questions and Answers
1. What was the major objective of your project and what was your plan to achieve it?
The major objective of my project was to see if pH levels affect an artificial sponge’s performance in absorbing liquid. To achieve my goal I put sponges in water and measured how much of it the sponges absorbed. Then I put the sponges in different liquids (orange juice and green tea) that had different pH levels. Lastly, I put the sponges in water one more time and saw how the amount of water that the sponge absorbed changed.
a. Was that goal the result of any specific situation, experience, or problem you encountered? Since natural sponges help climate change by helping the coral reefs, I wondered if artificial sponges were also affected by pH levels.
b. Were you trying to solve a problem, answer a question, or test a hypothesis?
I was trying to test a hypothesis. I wanted to know if pH affects sponges.
2. What were the major tasks you had to perform in order to complete your project?
First, you take 9 sponges and you put them in water. Then, you take the sponges out after ten minutes and put them in orange juice, green tea and water for 24 hours. After that, you take out the sponges, put them in water for another 10 minutes and you see how the pH affects the sponges absorption rate.
a. For teams, describe what each member worked on.
This was not done on a team.
3. What is new or novel about your project?
a. Is there some aspect of your project's objective, or how you achieved it that you haven't done before? I have never done a experiment before.
b. Is your project's objective, or the way you implemented it, different from anything you have seen? No, I have never seen anything like it before.
c. If you believe your work to be unique in some way, what research have you done to confirm that it is? I read about natural sponges and how important they are in climate change, and I just wondered if the same thing would happen with artificial sponges.
4. What was the most challenging part of completing your project?
a. What problems did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?
I didn’t encounter any difficulties.
b. What did you learn from overcoming these problems?
5. If you were going to do this project again, are there any things you would you do differently the next time?
If I had the opportunity to reconduct my experiment I would make sure there were more sponges in additional liquids so I could get more data. Hopefully, It would give me clearer answers on how the pH in liquids affects the sponges.
6. Did working on this project give you any ideas for other projects?
Yes, I would like to do more research on how to help climate change.
7. How did COVID-19 affect the completion of your project?
COVID did not affect my project.