Activity Sheet - Testing Goldfish Respiration

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Testing Goldﬁsh Respiration

STUDENT RESOURCE 6.6

ACTIVITY SHEET

Work with your group to design an experiment. The experiment

should test how water temperature affects a goldﬁsh’s breathing

rate. In the experiment, use

ice cubes to make the water

colder

warm water to make the water warmer.

Write a question you can test.

Write a hypothesis. The hypothesis should tell how you think

the temperature of the water will affect the ﬁsh’s breathing.

On a separate sheet of paper, write your experiment design.

• Write the procedure you will use.

• Design a way to record your observations. You could use a

chart.

• Do your experiment. For each trial, count how many times the

ﬁsh breathed in 15 seconds. Multiply by 4 to ﬁnd how many

times it breathed in 1 minute.

• Analyze your results. Did the results answer your question?

• Write a lab report of your experiment.

CLASSIFICATION • SECTION 6 ANIMAL RESEARCH PROJECTS

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