Bacteria Lab

We experimented on the bacteria found in certain parts of the school.  Neil Smith, Jack Sampson and I tested the bacteria in the locker room and shoe room for wrestling.  Our hypothesis on these places was that they would be filled with bacteria. These were the materials we needed for our experiment:

1. agar plate
2. Q tips
3. tape

This was the procedure:

1. We went to the locker room first.
2. Took the Q tip, swiped the surface of the locker.
3. Then took the agar plate and swabbed the Q tip on the agar plate. Next, we followed the same procedure in the shoe room.
4. We used the tape to label the locker room and shoe room agar samples.
5. Finaly, we put the agar plates on the window sill.

Our solution was just what we suspected, both agar plate were growing bacteria within 2 days. The shoe room was much worse then the locker room. We had found black mold in the locker room and shoe room. There was also fungi in the shoe room. The point of this project was to figure how much bacteria we are surrounded by each day at school.