Day 7

Five days ago, we bought red flowers and treated them the exact same way as we treated the pink flower petals. We, got the same results; that the Vitamin E treated daily petal stayed fresh the longest. All the petals stayed fresh for 2 days and then the untreated petal started to curl up and grow wrinkled. The Vitamin E treated petal that was treated only once stayed fresh for 3 days so far, and now it is getting black, but the Vitamin E treated petal which is treated daily is still fresh. This proves that Vitamin E treated petals can stay fresh the longest, but this also means that it should work on skin too.

Day 5

Today we observed the flower petals, and we looked at the differences between the petal with Vitamin E and without Vitamin E. The petal treated daily is lasting the longest so far, as shown in the pictures above.

Day 3

I have noticed that the untreated flower petal is starting to dry, as is the water treated petal. I think this is because the petal is in an enclosed space, where it is hard for the air to get to it. The Vitamin E treated petals are still fresh.

Days 1 & 2

Today we started the project, and put the petals in bags. We smothered 2 of them with Vitamin E, and we soaked one of them in water. The last one, we left without anything. The next day, we took a dried flower petal and smothered it with Vitamin E. We want to see if dried flower petals will become fresh again if Vitamin E is applied to it. At the end of this project, I hope to prove that the skin products with Vitamin E in them can actually work.

Details

For my project, I needed a question, a hypothesis, a materials list, and a procedure. I got them all in 5 minutes :-). Here they are:



Question:
Can Vitamin E slow aging?

Hypothesis:
A flower petal coated in Vitamin E will stay young and fresh longer than an untreated flower petal.

Materials:
· 5 large flower petals (rose petals preferably)
· 5 plastic bags
· A marker
· A glass of water
· Several Vitamin E capsules


Procedure:
1. Place the first flower petal in one of the plastic bags. Using the marker, label this bag “Air”.
2. Dip the second flower petal in the water and place it inside another plastic bag. Label this bag “Water”.
3. Open the Vitamin E capsule and rub the liquid on the third and fourth flower petal. Place them inside two seperate plastic bags and label them “Vitamin E applied once” and "Vitamin E applied daily".
4. Take a petal that was left to dry for 2 days, smother it with Vitamin E and place in the fifth bag. Label the bag "Vitamin E applied on dried petal".
5. Observe the flower petals every day for at least 5 days. Reapply vitamin E on the "Vitamin E applied daily" petal every day. Record any changes in color, texture or appearance.

Science Fair Project Idea

Hi my name is Dino, and about a week ago, my teacher announced that the 6th Grade Science Project was going to be due in March. It was about in the middle of February, so I didn't worry at all. A few days later, I started to think about ideas I could use for the project. I thought of so many of them, so I typed them up, and I turned in all of them. When I got it back from my teacher, It said that only three of the ideas were good. One of them was this project, which is "Can vitamin E slow aging?". I thought about the other two. They weren't so interesting, so I picked this one. I decided to make a blog out of the project. Well, here it is, and I hope you enjoy it!