My topic I will be presenting at KIC will be on dog research. I chose this topic because I like dogs and my partners Megan, Abby, and I all have dogs. So we decided to do out project on dogs.
The question we will be presenting at KIC will be, when comparing a Chesapeake Bay Retriever with a Black Lab, which will eat their food faster? Our hypothesis was that the Black Lab would eat faster. My partners and I came up with this question when we were thinking of a question we could try on our dogs.
Here is some background information I have collected on my research of dogs. I found out that both the Chesapeake Bay Retriever and the Black Lab are both sporting dogs. The first five ingredients on Kibbles n' Bits dog food are corn, soybean meal, beef and bone meal, wheat flour, and animal middlings. I also found out information about the Black Lab. I found out that the Black Lab is a good family house pet along with the Chesapeake Bay Retriever. Black Labs make fine seeing eye dogs. My uncle told me that I should do my investigation at least ten times to make sure my results are accurate. I also found out that I should give the dogs the same kind and the same amount of dog food. When testing I fed the dogs at the same time and day.
To answer our question we did many things. First, I made sure I could do a project on my dog. Next, I went to the store and bought Kibbles n' Bits dog food. Then, I took my dog to the vet to get weighed. Later, I tested my dog ten times and recorded the data. During the testing I checked with my partners and got their results. For our research we couldn't use Abby's dog becuase she is sick. We also evaluated that the Black Lab ate faster. Finally, I constructed graphs, diagrams, charts, and more to explain our investigation and verify.
Some facts my partners and I discovered about our dog research was that the Black Lab ate faster than the Cheseake Bay Retriever. The Lab ate about 34 seconds faster. To find out how much faster the Lab took I had to add up the Chesapeake Bay Retriever's scores and the Lab's scores together and divided them by ten. I added and divided both dog's scores up seperately.The Chesapeake Bay Retriever's average came out to be 1 minute 36 seconds. The Black Lab's average came out to be 1 minute 2 seconds. After that I subtracted them both and then I got my answer of 34 seconds. We also learned that if you don't give the dogs the same amount of food then your investigation might not be accurate. We kept our investigation under control because we had the same type of food for every test. We learned a lot about feeding both dogs the same amount of food, feeding at the same time, and the same day. My partners and I fed our dogs around 5pm. These are things we learned and some things we learned from our research.
These are some suggestions for future students to try on the topic of dog research. My partners and I would have liked to answer thsi question but didn't have time to. The question was, "When comparing a Chesapeake Bay Retriever, a Black Lab, and a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog, which will eat their food faster?" You could do any number of animals for a question like this one. Or you might want to have a question like this. "When comparing a Chesapeake Bay Retriever and a Black Lab which, will gain more weight after they are fed?" I hope you enjoyed my KIC article.