1.+My+Favourite+Colour

=//** My Favourite Colour **//=

**Question:** Do mealworms have a colour preference? **Materials:**  - 4 sheets of construction, divided into squares (yellow, blue, red and green) with a white circle in the middle **Manipulated Variables:**  There are none **Responding Variables:**  Which colour the mealworms will choose Mealworms will have a colour preference and this will be indicated by where they end up on the colour board.
 * Hypothesis: **

**Predictions:**  Sara Belliveau: Mealworms will choose yellow because it is the brightest colour. Sarah Blackadar: Mealworms will stay in the middle because they will be overwhelmed with the choice of colour. Carol Burroughs: Mealworms will not have a preference, they will randomly go to different colours. Emily Jay: Mealworms will choose yellow because it is the brightest colour. bob: go to blue it dakest they like dark colors. **Plan/Procedure:**
 * 1)  Place three mealworms in the centre of the white circle. Keep them contained by cupping your hands around them
 * 2)  Set the timer for 30 seconds and release your hands
 * 3)  Observe the meal worms as they move and record which colours they frequented
 * 4)  When 30 seconds have elapsed the experiment is over (graph results)
 * 5)  Repeat steps 1-4 four times

**Controlled Variables:**  - All meal worms will start in the middle of the white circle   - The choice of colours will stay the same **Observations, Data, Tables, Graphs:**  1, 2, 3, 4 represent the order the mealworm visited each colour. Trial #1 Trial #2 Trial #3 Trail #4 Summary **Conclusion:**  Based on this experiment, we conclude that if mealworms have a colour preference, it would be red. We conclude this because the colour red was frequented more than any other colour (ten times total). In none of the trials did a mealworm stay on the white circle, but two out of the twelve times, it returned to the circle. **Comments:**  It was difficult to determine whether the mealworms really had a preference for a certain colour or if it was due to other factors. Perhaps they were attracted to the red because there were other mealworms there. It was interesting though that all of the mealworms moved from the initial white circle, was this because they were being drawn to the other colours or simply because they wanted to move around?
 * Mealworm ||  Red  ||  Blue  ||  Green  ||  Yellow  ||  White  ||
 * #1 ||   ||  1  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * #2 ||  1  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * #3 ||  1  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Mealworm ||  Red  ||  Blue  ||  Green  ||  Yellow  ||  White  ||
 * #1 ||  4  ||  2  ||  1  ||   ||  3  ||
 * #2 ||  1  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * #3 ||   ||  1  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Mealworm ||  Red  ||  Blue  ||  Green  ||  Yellow  ||  White  ||
 * #1 ||  1, 3  ||  2  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * #2 ||  1  ||  2  ||   ||  3  ||   ||
 * #3 ||   ||   ||   ||  2  ||  1  ||
 * Mealworm ||  Red  ||  Blue  ||  Green  ||  Yellow  ||  White  ||
 * #1 ||  1  ||   ||   ||  2  ||   ||
 * #2 ||  1, 3  ||   ||   ||  2  ||   ||
 * #3 ||   ||   ||  1  ||   ||   ||
 * Red ||  Blue  ||  Green  ||  Yellow  ||  White  ||
 * 10 ||  5  ||  2  ||  4  ||  2  ||