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    Floating Disk Lab 2018

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    1) The document describes an experiment to determine the rate of photosynthesis in plant leaf disks under different light conditions. Students will use syringes to remove oxygen from leaf disks and calculate the time it takes for disks to float back up as oxygen is produced through photosynthesis. 2) The experiment involves placing leaf disks in beakers under intense, regular, and low light, and recording the number of disks floating over time. This will show how light intensity affects photosynthesis rate. 3) Analysis questions require students to define photosynthesis, identify its products, explain how light and temperature impact the rate, and describe situations that could produce the oxygen and carbon dioxide graph patterns.

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    1) The document describes an experiment to determine the rate of photosynthesis in plant leaf disks under different light conditions. Students will use syringes to remove oxygen from leaf disks and calculate the time it takes for disks to float back up as oxygen is produced through photosynthesis. 2) The experiment involves placing leaf disks in beakers under intense, regular, and low light, and recording the number of disks floating over time. This will show how light intensity affects photosynthesis rate. 3) Analysis questions require students to define photosynthesis, identify its products, explain how light and temperature impact the rate, and describe situations that could produce the oxygen and carbon dioxide graph patterns.

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    1) The document describes an experiment to determine the rate of photosynthesis in plant leaf disks under different light conditions. Students will use syringes to remove oxygen from leaf disks and calculate the time it takes for disks to float back up as oxygen is produced through photosynthesis. 2) The experiment involves placing leaf disks in beakers under intense, regular, and low light, and recording the number of disks floating over time. This will show how light intensity affects photosynthesis rate. 3) Analysis questions require students to define photosynthesis, identify its products, explain how light and temperature impact the rate, and describe situations that could produce the oxygen and carbon dioxide graph patterns.

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    Floating Disk Lab 2018

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    1) The document describes an experiment to determine the rate of photosynthesis in plant leaf disks under different light conditions. Students will use syringes to remove oxygen from leaf disks and calculate the time it takes for disks to float back up as oxygen is produced through photosynthesis. 2) The experiment involves placing leaf disks in beakers under intense, regular, and low light, and recording the number of disks floating over time. This will show how light intensity affects photosynthesis rate. 3) Analysis questions require students to define photosynthesis, identify its products, explain how light and temperature impact the rate, and describe situations that could produce the oxygen and carbon dioxide graph patterns.

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    Name _____________________________________Date

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    FLOATING DISK LAB: DAY 1 - INVESTIGATION


    Objective:
    To determine the net rate of photosynthesis by calculating the speed of oxygen production.

    Fact: ​Plants make more sugars in 24 hours than they need, up to 160 billion metric tons per
    year! Thus, plants are a major global food source and basis of the food web.

    Pre-Lab: Class Discussion


    Using your basic knowledge of plants and photosynthesis, what are various VARIABLES that
    could affect or alter the actual process of photosynthesis and sugar production?

    Environmental Factors: Physical Plant Factors: Other factors:

    Background Information:
    In the floating leaf disk lab, you will be using syringes to create a vacuum that will remove to
    trapped air with the leaf cells allowing the leaves to fall to the bottom of the beaker. By
    extracting the oxygen from the leaves, one can now calculate the time it takes for a plant to
    produce oxygen and sugar as a by product of photosynthesis and thus establish a rate of
    reaction or speed of which it happens. Once the leaves start producing oxygen within its cells,
    the oxygen gets trapped first in the mesophyll, before its released to the environment; allowing
    the plant cells to become buoyant and float to the top of the beaker.

    To stimulate photosynthesis the following supplies will be used:

    Lab Item: What it represents:

    LAMP SUNLIGHT

    BAKING SODA CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2)

    WATER WATER (H2O)

    FLOATING DISK OXYGEN (O2) Produced


    Hypothesis/ Claim:

    If
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    Then
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    Data Table:

    ENVIRONMENT: INTENSE LIGHT (5 cm from the light)


    Time 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
    (minutes)

    # of Disks

    ENVIRONMENT: REGULAR LIGHT (10 cm from the light)


    Time 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
    (minutes)

    # of Disks

    ENVIRONMENT: LOW LIGHT (20 cm from the light)


    Time 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
    (minutes)

    # of Disks

    What is your INDEPENDENT VARIABLE in this study? _____________________________


    What is your DEPENDENT VARIABLE in this study? _______________________________
    What is your CONSTANT VARIABLES in this study? _______________________________

    Graph Your results:


    FLOATING DISK LAB: DAY 2 - MODELING

    Part 1 - INITIAL MODEL:

    As a group, use the giant ​WHITE BOARDS ​to illustrate what is happening in your
    experiment and include aspects and factors on the MOLECULAR LEVEL. Thus, incorporate
    CO2, H2O, C6H12O6, Light, O2, pigments, chloroplast, what the molecules look like, how and
    what they changed into, etc.
    LABEL everything and be specific! You will have 25 minutes.

    Part 2 - STICKY NOTE REVISION:

    You now have 10 minutes to grab 3 sticky notes and venture to 3 different white board
    models around the room. Place a sticky note SUGGESTION on their boards with helpful
    information that they may be missing or how to make the models better.
    When you are finished, go back to your white board model and read all the sticky notes.
    Take another 10 minutes to REVISE your model based on the class suggestions.

    Part 3: FINAL MODEL:

    Using the space provided DRAW out your groups final model. Make sure to label
    everything.
    Analysis:
    1) What is the formula for photosynthesis?

    2) What products are produced from photosynthesis?

    3) What is the purpose of the baking soda in this experiment?

    4) Determine the mean rate of photosynthesis in each condition of your study (5cm, 10cm,
    20 cm). To calculate the rate of photosynthesis, use the formula below & SHOW your
    work:
    ​(final # of disks floating)​ = _________ disks/ sec.
    Total time (seconds)
    RATE OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS:
    Distance: 5 cm Distance: 10 cm Distance: 20 cm

    5) If you increase the light intensity during your experiment, the rate of photosynthesis
    would decline. Explain why that might happen.

    6) During your study, you should have seen a steady increase of floating disks over time
    when the light was turned on. However, when the disks were not given light they started
    to sink. Why?
    7) Some plants like desert cactus can store enormous amounts of water within their cells.
    However, they do NOT photosynthesize during the day because the intense heat would
    evaporate their water too fast, halting photosynthesis and energy production. Thus
    cactus photosynthesize at night. Propose an explanation on HOW they would do this?

    8) If you decrease or increase environmental temperatures around a plant the


    photosynthesis process stops, thus creating a bell shaped curve graph. Explain how
    temperature can affect the rate of photosynthesis in a plant and DRAW a graph to
    illustrate your point.
    9) Using the following graph, analyze what is happening between the oxygen and carbon
    dioxide and EXPLAIN WHY. Then, determine a situation where this would actually exist in.

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