INTRODUCTION
Soon after we planted our Brassica plants in the garden, they were eaten... by the chickens. More info on our investigation, experiment, and how we planned on catching our culprits are in blog post below.
HYPOTHESIS
Our hypothesis was correct.Chickens escaped from their afternoon corral and ate our whole cabbages.
Independent variable: Number of pecks per second (how long it took to eat it)
Dependent variable: Number of plants stolen by chickens
Justification of hypothesis: It's inevitable that the chickens were going to steal out plants. We said that they ate our brassica plants during there afternoon outing, and we were correct.
For our experiment on the first afternoon when the chickens were let out we had our cabbages. With the first cabbage we had peeled off the leaves and put them all on the ground and we timed it. It took 4 minutes and 47 seconds for the chickens to eat all of the cabbage leaves. The next afternoon we brought a whole cabbage and put it on the ground. The chickens took 5 minutes and 34 seconds to eat the entire cabbage. We believe it took the chickens longer because the cabbage wasn’t opened up like the last one. On the last afternoon we had half buried the cabbage in the dirt to replicate a cabbage growing. The chickens took 5 minutes and 12 seconds to eat the entire cabbage.
Purpose of the project: The purpose for our project was to work our way to finding out what happened to our teams brassica plants, which we did discover and proved our hypothesis.
Purpose of the project: The purpose for our project was to work our way to finding out what happened to our teams brassica plants, which we did discover and proved our hypothesis.
Conclusion// Summary: To conclude The Story of The Seed experiment, our hypothesis was correct. Chickens did eat and steal our plants. After examining and analyzing the chickens afternoons out and they're eating habits, we've come to the conclusion that the chickens, did in fact take our brassica plants, concluding the mystery of our stolen cabbage.
