Conclusion #1: We have been learning about making mummies and are using the cucumber to observe the process of mummification. We set up a control cucumber and then changed one variable. Our group’s variable was to remove all of the air from around the cucumber. We thought that it might make it more like the inside of a tomb, where there might not be a lot of air. The color of our cucumber changed from the original color, dark green, to a multi-color. It smelled a bit like burnt bread at the end of our experiment. The cucumber also got a lot more delicate, the texture got bumpy and fragile and the sand and natron stuck together. Our mummification index was 75 % and the mummification index of the control was 85%. Our mummy did not dry out as much as the control. We think that in order to make a good mummy there must be air and because we removed the air our mummy was not as good as the control. The group that added the extra natron had a mummification index of 89%, which showed that natron might be more important in mummification than the amount of air. Next time we might try to make more air move over the cucumber and see if that would help to make a better mummy with a higher mummification index.

Conclusion #2: The variable our group used was to remove all of the air from around the cucumber. We thought that this would be a cool thing to do and we wanted to do it. The color of our cucumber changed color from the beginning of the experiment to the end. The cucumber also became crunchier and the stuff around it got all glumpy together. We didn’t like the smell of it by the end either. Our number was lower than the one that the teachers did. It was a bit lower but not a whole lot lower. It was better than the group that put extra sand on theirs. We were pretty happy with what we ended up with. We had a lot of fun doing this experiment and think that it would be fun to do it, but we can’t really think about what we might change if we did this experiment again.

Conclusion #1: The variable our group used was to remove all of the air from around the cucumber. We thought that it might make it more like the inside of a tomb, where there might not be a lot of air. The color of our cucumber changed from the original color, dark green, to a multi-color. It smelled a bit like burnt bread at the end of our experiment. The cucumber also got a lot more delicate, the texture got bumpy and fragile and the sand and natron stuck together. Our mummification index was 75 % and the mummification index of the control was 85%. Our mummy did not dry out as much as the control. We think that in order to make a good mummy there must be air and because we removed the air our mummy was not as good as the control. The group that added the extra natron had a mummification index of 89%, which showed that natron might be more important in mummification than the amount of air. Next time we might try to make more air move over the cucumber and see if that would help to make a better mummy with a higher mummification index.

Conclusion #2: The variable our group used was to remove all of the air from around the cucumber. We thought that this would be a cool thing to do and we wanted to do it. The color of our cucumber changed color from the beginning of the experiment to the end. The cucumber also became crunchier and the stuff around it got all glumpy together. We didn’t like the smell of it by the end either. Our number was lower than the one that the teachers did. It was a bit lower but not a whole lot lower. It was better than the group that put extra sand on theirs. We were pretty happy with what we ended up with. We had a lot of fun doing this experiment and think that it would be fun to do it, but we can’t really think about what we might change if we did this experiment again.