Our group - Aaron Everly, Elle McRae, Emma Wienmann, and Madeline Williams - are testing 3 types of leaves from the Grant High School Campus and determining their specific species. Over the course of the experiment here is the participation that we all contributed each day:
May 22nd, Wednesday
All of us collected plant samples around Grant and began the process of extracting the DNA from each sample. Aaron created a blog and began updating it with images from the day and wrote out our procedure. Madeline also stayed through all of lunch to finish extracting the DNA from our samples.
May 24th, Friday
Today we worked on our lab packet for this experiment; it was more of a learning day then any hands on work. We were a little rushed into the experiment before we really understood what we were doing; but today we learned all about why we did what we did, and what it meant.
May 29th, Wednesday
Madeline was gone but Elle, Emma and Aaron finished out the experiment and identified which tubes we had been using for our experiment so they could sent of to get sequenced.
June 3rd, Monday
In class we officially assigned a job to everyone; beforehand we had been doing whatever need to be done but not in an organized fashion. We agreed that Madeline would blog the team agreement and results, Emma would blog the background information on our three samples, and Aaron would blog the procedure, analysis of our results and design the blog to be more appealing.
June 5th, Wednesday
Elle had graduated and is no longer working on the experiment. As for the rest of the team, we got our sequence back online and all three of us spent the period finding out what species our sequences were and analyzing the results. We also began working on more blog posts.
Elle had graduated and is no longer working on the experiment. As for the rest of the team, we got our sequence back online and all three of us spent the period finding out what species our sequences were and analyzing the results. We also began working on more blog posts.
June 7th, Friday
Figured out that we had the wrong DNA that got mixed with another class period's group so once we found our real data, we were able to more accurately analyze our data. We spent the period working on the blog and making sure all of us knew what we had to do over the weekend to finish the blog.
Overall our team worked together really well and we all felt like the jobs were split equally among us. After all our experiment turned out perfect and I can't imagine it would have if we had not worked together like we did.
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