Exploration 4: Favorite Colors
Times Repeated:
Place 5 worms in and observed the direction they went and where they stayed.
Hypothesis:
If we place meal worms in a box containing different colors, they will choose blue, as it is the darkest color.
Materials:
Procedure:
1. Sort candies into groups by color.
2. Create a circle of colours by placing the different colored candies in a circle. The colours we chose included red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue, and purple.
2. Place the Meal worms in the center of the circle for their respective tests.
3. Observe where the path of the meal worm and which spot they choose to rest.
4. Record what color the meal worm settled underneith.
Observations:
The mealworms would go to sometimes all of the colors before finally settling at one particular color.
The mealworms often moved through colors in a circle instead of moving in a straight line.
The mealworms did not only choose colors beside each other but actually moved across to another color before returning to a color.
The mealworms did not simply move to where other mealworms were already.
Place 5 worms in and observed the direction they went and where they stayed.
Hypothesis:
If we place meal worms in a box containing different colors, they will choose blue, as it is the darkest color.
Materials:
- Hard candy of different colors
- Box
- Mealworms
- Camera
Procedure:
1. Sort candies into groups by color.
2. Create a circle of colours by placing the different colored candies in a circle. The colours we chose included red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue, and purple.
2. Place the Meal worms in the center of the circle for their respective tests.
3. Observe where the path of the meal worm and which spot they choose to rest.
4. Record what color the meal worm settled underneith.
Observations:
The mealworms would go to sometimes all of the colors before finally settling at one particular color.
The mealworms often moved through colors in a circle instead of moving in a straight line.
The mealworms did not only choose colors beside each other but actually moved across to another color before returning to a color.
The mealworms did not simply move to where other mealworms were already.
Variables:
The variables are the different colors chosen around the circle.
Results:
In the end most of the mealworms chose the colors blue and red. Since these are the darker colors.
If we were to conduct this experiment again I think it would be interesting to have placed all of the mealworms in the center of the circle at once instead of one at a time.
In order to find more accurate results more worms and tests should have been done.
Because we used candy to show the different colors it may have affected the results if the mealworms just wanted the candy. Since the candy was stacked the mealworms may have just wanted shelter and chose the best shelter instead of choosing a color. Lastly the mealworms may have just liked a particular section of the box and not chosen according to the color at all. To help fix this problem I think it would be better to use pieces of construction paper to represent the different colors and use a variety of dark and light colors. Interestingly after performing further research it was found that mealworms cannot actually see color but they can tell the different between light and dark, so it might be interesting to study this spectrum.
The variables are the different colors chosen around the circle.
Results:
In the end most of the mealworms chose the colors blue and red. Since these are the darker colors.
If we were to conduct this experiment again I think it would be interesting to have placed all of the mealworms in the center of the circle at once instead of one at a time.
In order to find more accurate results more worms and tests should have been done.
Because we used candy to show the different colors it may have affected the results if the mealworms just wanted the candy. Since the candy was stacked the mealworms may have just wanted shelter and chose the best shelter instead of choosing a color. Lastly the mealworms may have just liked a particular section of the box and not chosen according to the color at all. To help fix this problem I think it would be better to use pieces of construction paper to represent the different colors and use a variety of dark and light colors. Interestingly after performing further research it was found that mealworms cannot actually see color but they can tell the different between light and dark, so it might be interesting to study this spectrum.