Smooth Floor Lab Report

Think about mice racing each other. Would they prefer a smooth floor or a rough floor? This experiment will tell which floor the mice go faster on. To make this experiment work correctly, you would need to figure out what you need for this experiment, what would be contained in the experimental group, and how you would do it. The first thing before testing the mice, are figuring out what our materials are. You can’t just have a couple of mice run across the floor since you wouldn’t know the speed of their run or if they even wanted to run at that time. You would have to figure out all of your obstacles that block you from doing this experiment and block them by thoroughly preparing. The first obstacle is to get the mice. You would at least
In the experimental group there are three parts. The first part of the experimental group is the variable. A variable is one alteration changed in the experimental group in order to find out the solution. To figure out this is easy. What are you testing in this experiment? Whether mice runs faster on rough surface or smooth surface. The rough surface and the smooth surface are the ones that are going to be changed so that is our variable. The next part of the experimental group is our control group. The control group is what should not change so that the solution is found. To make this clearer, you wouldn’t want to find out the speed of the mice when the two surfaces’ distances are different. If the distances were different, the mice being tested on the longer one would take a longer time than the mice on the shorter distance because of the differential distances and not because of the surfaces. So the distance should be the same. This is a control. Another control is that each mouse should run on both surfaces. If each mouse were tested on one surface instead of being tested on both surfaces, useless interferences would interfere. So the control group would contain, same distances for each surface and each mice being tested on both surfaces. The last part of our experimental group is what our constants are. Constants are other influences that should not interfere with our experiment. The first constant is the different mice sizes and weights. When catching the mice, they should all be almost the same size, otherwise if there was a taller mouse and a smaller mouse being tested, the taller one could be faster than the smaller mouse because it had longer legs. The same goes with the weight too. The mice should all be almost the same in weight. So weight and sizes are very important constant. The time of day is also an important constant. If we tested one at noon and one at night