Science Fair Project

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Hypothesis

If we ring a bell for 7-seconds before we feed a fish for a month the fish will be conditioned to knowing, before they eat.


Key Words
Behavior- manner of behaving or acting.
Associate- to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.
Conditioning- a particular mode of being a person or thing.


Research
Our project is how to train goldfish. We want to test the behavior of the fish. In the other we will just feed them. The constants are the tank, the amount of the goldfish, the feeding time, the rocks, and the days we clean the tank. In the experimental group we will have two fish and every time we feed them we will have two fish and every time we feed them we will ring a bell for 7-seconds. In the control group, we just feed the fish. We will condition the fish who know when they are being feed. In conclusion, our science fair project is …show more content…

Put rocks in the tank.
Put water in the tank.
Put fish in the tank.
Feed the fish every day 7:00 a.m. and 8:45 p.m.
For the experimental group behavior.
Observe the experimental groups behavior.
Feed the control group the same time as experimental group.
Observe the control groups behavior.
Gather your information and present it on board.

Conclusion/ Results
Our hypothesis was incorrect. Our hypothesis was that we could train goldfish. The conclusion of our project is that you cannot train goldfish. We rang the bell every day at the same time for the experimental group. The fish never reacted to the bell.
Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our parents for buying us all the supplies we needed for science fair. Also, we would like to thank Mrs. Brewer for letting us buy a science fair board from her. We would like to thank Mrs. Brewer again for answering questions we had on Science Fair. There are many people who helped us with Science Fair.

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