Grow+Beasts

Grow Beasts Background As part of a course on active learning, I was given two grow beasts. Grow bests are small toys that increase in size when you put them in water. Our task was to come up with an experiment that compares the rate of growth of a control grow beast (one placed in room temperature water) to that of another grow beast placed in a liquid of our choosing. As a class we are going to carefully chart the rate of growth of our beasts for three days measuring them from nose to tail in centimeters. We will then compile our data to see how the rate of growth differs depending upon the liquid it is placed in. My Experiment I began my experiment by measuring both of my grow beasts. Green was 5 cm and Purple was 4.7 cm at the start. I then placing the green grow beast in room temperature water and charted its growth as a control. I decided that I wanted to compare the rate of growth between water and laundry detergent. I chose this experiment because I learned that one of the only solutions that had ever been found to make a grow beast grow faster was windex. I was curious to see if other cleaning solutions had the same effect, so I created a solution of two parts Trader Joe's Liquid Laundry Detergent with one part water and placed my beast in the viscous solution. . Results Both grow beasts got off to a rather slow start. Green, the control, which I will call H2 only grew .3 cm in the first two hours. Purple, which I will call Deter, was even slower as it didn't change at all in the first two hours. By the end of the first day, H2 had almost doubled in length, while Deter had only increased in size by less than 50%. Then something strange happened, both Deter and H2 seemed to stop growing for about 8 hours. Between 24 and 32 hours, they both only grew .5 cm. After this slight hiccup, they both resumed growth and after 96 hours H2 was three cm longer than Deter. H2 had grown 8 cm while Deter had only grown 5.3 cm. Perhaps this is just another indication of the wonderful properties of water! If I were to do this experiment agin i would get multiple grow beasts and place them in different saturations of detergent. Water would remain as the control and then I would incrementally replace 10% of the water with detergent until I had a spectrum of liquids ranging from pure water to pure H2O. I would be curious to see if the rate of growth directly mirrored the concentration of the solution. Or perhaps just a little bit of detergent would help a grow best in its quest for size.

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 * **Hours** || **Water** || **Detergent** ||
 * **0** || **5** || **4.7** ||
 * **1** || **5.1** || **4.7** ||
 * **2** || **5.3** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**4.7** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**4** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**5.6** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**5** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**5** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**6.2** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**5** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**6** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**6.3** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**5.1** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**8** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**7** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**5.3** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**16** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**7.5** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**6.2** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**26** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**9** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**7** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**29** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**9.5** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**7.2** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**32** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**9.5** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**7.5** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**52** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**11** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**8** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**96** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**13** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px;">**10** ||

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