7. Take the houses to Zasqua
8. Record data for 15 times
9. Analyze results
10. Share our conclusion
We will do our experiment by
making a bird feeder divided
into two, in one side we will put
one type of food and in the other
one we will put the other kind
of food. We will put the house
where we will do the experiment.
And then each other day in the
week we will go visit the house
and measure how much food the
birds have eaten in millimeters.
Data Analysis and
Conclusions:
Our hypothesis was that
birds would eat and prefer
the pumpkin seeds than the
sunflower seeds. Eventually we
experimented and it turns out
that our hypothesis was wrong.
The birds ate and we think that
they prefer the sunflower seeds
than the pumpkin seeds. We
went to check on our feeder four
times and in those for times in
pumpkin they in total ate 33 and
in sunflower ate 82. So when you
do the average of all four times
we went for pumpkin seeds is 11
and for sunflower seeds it was 41.
We think that a result came like
this because the sunflower seeds
are much smaller and easier to
eat for birds which made them
more attractive for birds to come
and eat the sunflower seeds. In
this case we had to change the
amount of seeds in each pile
many times and that for me is a
factor that may have caused the
sunflower seeds to have less seeds
left at the end of our project.
Something else that affected our
experiment was that our house
was destroyed a couple of times
and for it to have a stable base
and walls we had to take some of
the components of the original
house. We think that instead of
counting how many seeds there
was in each pile, the total weight
would be a more accurate way to
get results and we wouldn’t have
to count every seed limiting it to
200 seeds but also many more.
Besides that inconvenience that
happened in our project we think
that we would also put a more
stable house and think of how the
birds might enter because. This
affected the way birds ate and
saw the food that we were trying
to give them for our experiment.
We think we could’ve done better
but we think that we learned
about this topic in which is the
birds’ preferences and which
type of seeds do they like best.
According to our previews project
or question was which seeds do
they like best between pumpkin
or sunflower. In our future
project we think that our other
question could be in which place
do birds prefer to eat. We think
that our project or experiment
was good even though we had
some inconvenience and some
obstacles a longer way but our
project could make a difference
in the future.
Zasqua Jounal 2017 / 9