Creating,+Imagining,+and+Innovating

====The Human mind is capable of great feats, one of them being the ability to generate new original and new ideas and designs. ==== ====Throughout this school year in general chemistry, I will be exploring different examples of how my mind creates, imagines, and innovates new ideas through chemistry. ====

October 11, 2010
====In Chemistry we are required to participate in the creation of a Scientific Lab Report along with a few other group members. This lab report will eventually be made into a digital story. I was grouped with Wendy and Michael, and on the first day we began to come up with ideas for our pending lab experiment, and thereafter, report. ==== ====However, on the first day of looking for ideas, we were a bit stumped. We definitely weren't used to the teacher not giving us us the freedom to choose our own project. But, soon, the ideas began to flow... ==== ====At first we thought we would collect rainwater and measure its pH. However it didn't seem like a very possible experiment because of the time constraints on the project. What if it didn't rain for a week or two, for example? So we decided to redesign our previous experiment. Perhaps we could instead measure the pH of tap water, and also, somehow, measure biological presence in the water. Would there be a correlation? However, yet again, we ran into a problem. Biological presence in water could not be tested quantitatively using the materials available to us at our school. Since the school did have devices that could measure dissolved CO2 and dissolved oxygen levels quantitatively we decided to instead test for these dissolved gas levels. Dissolved oxygen and carbon dioxide levels indicate biological presence in the water. Thereafter we decided to take samples of pond water from the same general areas we would take tap water samples from as well. We would test all water samples for dissolved oxygen and CO2 levels and for pH. Later on, however, we decided to remove measuring for dissolved oxygen because the equipment was advanced and took too much time to set up (time we couldn't afford because of constraints). ====

Procedure:
====1. Obtain water samples; be sure that the containers used to get water samples are clean. Obtain three tap water samples and pond water samples from home or near home (from different locations). Also get a tap water sample from school. Buy bottle water sample. ====

3. Hook Up Logger Pro System to a Computer
====a. Remove each water sample into the smaller separate container provided in the logger pro kit, when testing each specimen. ====

Graph Results**
====To make such a procedure, my group and I had to innovate, and create a design for a very own experiment. We then used this procedure to follow through on our experiment. Using the minds amazing ability to generate novel designs and ideas, we were able to put this complex experiment together. ====