Mold grows better on raspberries in room temperatures.

On day 1, there was no mold in the room temperature jar. On day 3, there was a small amount of mold. On day 8, there was a ton of mold. A little bit was yellow and the rest was whitish gray. This means that mold grows best in moist areas, warm but not hot temperatures, and with nutrients. The stuff we had such as a: warm room, a good amount of water (60 mL) and raspberries, helped mold grow. According to our observations, the temperature stayed at 2 celsius the entire experiment and by the end, it was about 65 percent covered in mold. Also, temperatures are very important to growing mold and mold needs certain temperatures to grow. This all shows that mold grows better on raspberries in room temperatures.

This week in science we did lots of mini challenges such as making a boat out of tinfoil and seeing how many pennies we could put into the boat before it sank.

My favorite challenge was when we had to save Fred (a gummy worm) from drowning.

The supplies we had was; 4 paper clips (for whatever we wanted), 1 gummy worm (Fred), one lifesaver candy (for Fred’s life preserver), and one paper cup (for Fred’s boat).

The rules were that you could not touch Fred or his boat or life preserver. The only thing that we could touch, were the paper clips and that you could not stab Fred.

What we did was we picked Fred up with paper clip tweezers. Then we flipped over the boat with more paper clip tweezers. Next we picked up the life preserver with the tweezers and squeezed Fred in. This was a very fun challenge and I want to try it again another time with a different plan.