Procedure

Date of Experiment: Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Location: Upper Canada College grounds

Time: 1:20 p.m. -- 2:05 p.m.

Procedure:

·            Measured two cups without materials inside

·            Went outside of school and took a sample of soil from under a coniferous tree, putting it in one of the cups.

·            Filled a cup with water from a school drinking fountain.

·            Measured the weight of each cup with its own substance.

·            Calculated the mass of the soil and the water.

·           Placed a probe into the cup of water and the cup of soil, that connected to a computer using the application logger pro.

·           After waiting until each substance had a very similar temperature by leaving them inside the classroom, we began recording the temperature (°C) of each cup every thirty seconds, for ten minutes.

·            We then converted the chart containing the temperature of each cup into a graph to display the information.