8+Science+4+Anna's+MSW+Project

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Introduction:
Thousands of sheets of paper are printed every day at CCDS Middle School. Where does all of that wasted paper go? While some of it manages to make it into the recycling bin, a lot of it actually ends up in a landfill. For our MSW project, we decided to do ours on saving paper. We wanted to make signs to put on computers that tell people to print less. In turn, we thought these signs would help to lower the level of printed paper. Our hypothesis was...if we make signs that encourage people to print less, then the amount of printed paper per day would decrease.

Materials:
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 * markers
 * tape
 * 25 sheets of paper cut in half
 * scissors
 * paper cuts (#25)
 * cutting with scissors (#20)

Procedure:
1. Gather materials needed to construct signs.
 * markers
 * tape roll
 * 25 sheetes of paper
 * scissors

2. Cut the sheets of paper in half 3. Make signs that say...
 * Think before you print
 * Don't click the print button more than once
 * Print on both sides
 * ECT.

4. Store materials for later tests.

5. On Wednesday​, 17 start control groups test.

6. On Thursday, 18 check how many pieces of paper were printed on Wendsday the 17th.

7. Tape signs on computers( NOT LAPTOPS) and printers on Thursday, 18 in the morning.

8. On Friday, check how many pieces of paper were printed on Thursday.

9. Repeat steps 5-8 on Wendsday 24th and Thursday 25th.

10. Record data

Control Group- The group with no signs on the computers and printers. Experimental Group- The group with the signs on the computers and printers. Independent Variable- The amount of paper printed. Dependent Variable- The amount of signs on the computers and printers.

Data:

 * || Day 1 (without signage) || Day 2 (with signage) || Day 3 (without signage) || Day 4 (with signage) ||
 * Amount of Paper Printed (in pages) || 49 || 142 || 345 || 482 ||

Our graph does not show any trends. On day one (without signs) there was less paper printed then day two (with signs). On day three (with signs) there was more paper printed then day four (without signs). As you can see our graph was very inconsistant.

Conclusion:
In this experiment, my hypothesis was not supported. In my hypothesis i stated that if we maked signs that encouraged people to print less, then the amount of printed paper per day would decrease. After collecting all of our data, we soon realized that our hypothesis was not supported. Our data was all over the place and very inconsiststant. Our experiment deflinatly had some experimental and human errors. An experimental error is when you write your procedure wrong and a human error is when you do not follow the procedure correctly. In our experiment, there was an example of both a human and experimental error. An example of an experimental error in our experiment was that we wrote down dates in our procedure that had major projects due. We did not think about how projects and papers would effect our data, which in turn effects our experiment. An example of a human error was when we missed one of our data collecting days because we did not follow our procedure. In order to fix this error, we had to change the date on our procedure.There were not many challenges when we tried to collect our data. We collected data from the printers in the Media Center and the Computer Lab, meaning that there was no way that the data could be wrong. The only problem that we faced with data collection was trying to collect the data for the first time, because there are a lot of steps to get the data to print (Mrs. Lagette helped us). If we were to do this project again, there would be changes and soulutions to problems we faced during our project. Our first problem was that our signs were flimsy and did not last long because the ear and tear. A soultion for this problem would be to laminate the sign to make them more durable. Another problem we had was on of our errors, not knowing what big projects were due or being worked on one of our data collection days. A way we could have solved this was by making an anounsment at town meeting asking teachers who had a big project that was due for their students could tell us the due date so we could plan our data collection around it. In conclusion our hypothesis was not supported, but if we were to do the experiment again our data results might be more accurate.