Gathering+data+through+all+senses

//Use all your senses, stay alive, participate fully, get your hands dirty, experience it all. Don’t hold back.// During a lab experiment that focused on single replacement reactions, we had to combine different solutions with a solid and watch the chemical reaction. When we combined Copper with Silver Nitrate, nothing immediate showed up. We therefore ignored it and moved on to the next solution. However, glancing back, we noticed that a shiny straw-like substance formed around the piece of copper. We notified Mrs. Knowles, and she thus explained to us that that ‘shiny straw-like’ substance was in fact silver. If we hadn’t glanced back at the chemical reaction and participated fully, we would have blindly completed this experiment, not aware of what is actually going on.
 * __Gathering data through all senses__**



The picture above is of the notes I took during this experiment. As you can see, the notes next to IV say: It formed a silver coating. This was the description we noted down from the reaction that occurred.