Eco+Column+Research

=Eco Column Research:= Each team is to link a page to this page that will document their Eco Column research. The research will be written in laboratory format with a title and a section labeled Background, Materials, Procedures, Results and Conclusion. The column must contain three chambers, an aquatic chamber containing a plant, and possibly an animal; a decomposition chamber; and a terrestrial chamber that contains a plant and possibly an animal.

Quarterly the research will be evaluated and graded based upon:
 * Format - all sections present and in the correct order.
 * Presentation - spelling, grammar and overall appearance of work. Each page must also include a picture of the column and at least one link to a research site.
 * Scientific Accuracy - complete sections; documented research; detailed materials and procedures; measurable data (weekly pH; animal and plant counts, diversity, growth), data driven conclusions and recommendations.

=STUDENT PAGES:= Eco-Column (Alyssia, Victoria, Nicole) Daniel: You guys lab is so good!.... I liked the vocabularies that were used in the lab. In materials, it would be nicer if you write out the name of the animal that was inside the chamber. The words that are written in the the picture next materials are hard to read, so you should make it bigger. The procedures are really thorough and well written. Did you ever feed the worms ever except the scatter leaf litter and food items you put in the beginning? Your conclusion is long, but explained very well. Minji: This is awesome lab that I have ever seen!! I like the picture that shows the precedure. I also like the pictures that show what is going on their experiment. However, they need to correct grammar. The conclusion is sort of long so it takes longer time; you need to make it shorter. You also need to be specific about the method that can keep the eco-bottle on the conclusion.

Eco-Column (Maeye, Zack, Minji) Trevor: I like the lab it is good. I think you abstract is a little long. Your research is not hyper linked which I think would help the reader easily look at you websites. In number 11 in the materials it is indented for no reason. Beta fish, slug, and worm are all missing their scientific names in the materials. In number 8 what stream did you get the water because all streams are different. The procedures are a little confusing because it is jumping around to different steps why not just number them all in a row. The tables lack titles. You could put "recommendations" on the next page. You may want to put the people's names at the top. You did a lot of hard work and I think all of you changes are simple and easy. GREAT JOB!!!

The Abstract was good :] you told me exactly what you were doing, except half way through you started going into what you learned from it which probably should go into you conclusion. Everything seems to be pretty straight forward except it would be nice to know what kind of aquadic plants you used :] It was nice to see you guys put a picture of which was considered the up and down of the bottle part you were refering to :]- Victoria

Kail: It is good over all. The procedure is easy to follow and have specific data which shows the status of the Eco-column. There are grammatical errors and the abstract should be at the beginning of the document. Research part is empty, but the conclusion part is really straight to your points. I like it so much :) Nicole: Great description for procedures! Good and detailed research. However, I think you guys should put 'we' instead of 'I' in the sentence for conclusion part. Putting you guys' eco bottle picture will be awesome!!

=D.H, J.Y , K.L= == Zack: The entire lab write-up is concise and describes the detail very well, but there are a few grammatical errors and there is no abstract. I really liked the how the data was graphed and how it displays changes better than a table can show. It is overall very good. JED: Nice purpose! The Hypothesis could be a little more clear, especially in the because part. I might suggest adding more than just organisms in there. What else is involved in this eco-bottle? Under the Materials; Aquatic water is an interesting wording. Where does the science classroom have soil? Food should say foods(for other foods to feed...). Be more descriptive in your procedures. How are you cutting the bottle? On your chart don't forget that scientific names are italicized and underlined. Maybe separate the common name from the scientific? Should be (# of leaves*). Also the other should be the average of the leaves lengths. If you think your hypothesis was proved then why did the bottle not sustain your creatures? Just a thought. Great job guys!! Keep it up!

JED & Trevor

Good write-up; procedures made clear and understandable (easy to follow), thorough data (counting the number of worms alive). There were several grammatical errors in the write-up however; run on sentences made things a bit unclear, wording can be a little confusing; a mention of the dead turbo snail should be made in the conclusion. Pictures of the eco-column should also be included - Alyssia

John - Overall the paper look great. Good research. The research you did made clear as i read the procedures. However you forgot to cite the source for your research. Even though the picture was missing, the procedures was descriptive and easy to understand. Oh yea your picture is missing. :) I suggest you to be more specific in your conclusion your idea look very broad and general to me. I mean the conclusion based on your observation will make your suggestion : "If we were to do this again I would probably make some adjustments to the actual setup of the bottle. I would probably try to water the plant in the terrestrial section at least once every other day" (Royce,JED; Cullen Trevor 3) powerful. It will be great if you guys discuss why the snail died, the relationship between the pH level and the environment and what happen when the creature died : did the death effected to other creature? stuff like that... :) P.S RIP to your turbo snail.. :/

Maeye-nice paper work! it was clear and the chart looked good! and i think you guys need picture of your bottle to be included. :)