The Type of Soil That Crickets are placed on Affects Their Life Span
The Dates for This Experiment were Feb 15th-March 15th
The Scientists who did this experiment were Jacob 6J, Louisa 6J, and Max 6J. For this experiment, our hypothesis was, "The of Soil that Crickets Live on Affects Their Life Span". For this experiment we put 5 crickets in each of three different containers. The first container was filled with regular soil. The second container had regular soil with worms. Lastly, the third container had fertilized soil. We counted the amount of crickets every Sunday.
Materials
15 small PetCo crickets
2 worms
3 zilla cricket drink pillows
0.6 liters Fluker’s High calcium Cricket diet
300 ml water
0.36 liters fafard potting soil
0.12 liters fertilized soil
3 plastic 0.47 liter containers and their tops
Sharp, pointy object
Sharpie
Tape
Paper
Procedure
1. Gather materials
2. Fill three containers with .12 liters potting soil each
3. Fill the fourth container with .12 liters fertilized soil, rip a little bit off of the piece of paper, use a sharpie to label it “fertilized”, and then tape it onto the container
4. soak 3 water pads in enough water to cover them
5. let them be for five minutes
6. take them out and place them in the containers
7. put 2 worms in one of the containers, on a piece of paper, using a sharpie, label it "worms", tape it on
8. label the last container regular
9. poke a lot of holes in the lids with the sharp, pointy object
10. put 0.005 liters of food in each container
11. put five crickets in each container, and put the lid on
12. repeat steps 4-5 and 10 every week, if necessary
13. take photos, and count the number of crickets every Sunday
Pictures
Observation Table
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Type of Soil
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Week 1
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Week 2
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Week 3
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Week 4 (Saturday)
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Fertilized
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moldy, no change in food or water
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little moldy, little stinky, no change in food or water
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little moldy by food, little stinky, crickets burrowing, put in 0.005l food
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halfway moldy, not very stinky, no change in food or water,
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Worms
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very moldy, no change in food or water
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very moldy, little stinky, no change in food or water
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little moldy around water and food, humid smell, crickets burrowing, put in 0.005l food
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half way moldy, pretty stink, no change in food or water
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Regular
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little moldy, no change in food or water
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little moldy, little stinky, no change in food or water
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not moldy, little humid smell, put in 0.005l food
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moldy around food, little smelly, no change in food or water
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Experimental Set Up
Comments (4)
martin20156h said
at 5:02 pm on Apr 14, 2009
Is this finished? I am not sure if I can put warm and cool feedback if it is not finished
martin20156h said
at 8:36 pm on Apr 19, 2009
Mr. Wilson said I should anyway so here it goes:
Warm feedback-
detailed data table
good procedure and materials list
well designed experiment
martin20156h said
at 8:39 pm on Apr 19, 2009
Cool feedback-
experimental set up shows nothing
no lessons learned
sections use undescriptive words such as "stinky"
clementine20156h said
at 6:41 pm on May 6, 2009
warm: It's intersting that the crickets caused mold. I like that you used an animal again.
Cool: Pictures and experimental set up don't show up at all. Need lessons learned
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