We have learned about general pros and cons of genetically modified food and natural food, how GMOs are modified, and what foods are mostly modified, like apples, corn, and soy products. This will be used for the informational part of our project. The other part is the experiment. We also have learned about how you can tell the difference between what is modified and isn’t by the barcode number, and if it has a sticker that says that it is not modified.
We haven't had any setbacks so far when doing our 20 Time Project. We just need to figure out how our experiment will work, and we could face a setback at that point. We may need to research how to design a good experiment and look at our vodcast notes about experiments to get a sense of how we should go about planning it. We will also have to find people who are willing to be our test subjects, and they will be trying the foods that we select and rating them. If we have any setbacks later on, we plan on discussing with each other about what would be the best choice to make for the project.
Our next steps in our process is figuring out what foods we want to use for our experiment and how we will conduct it. It needs to be controlled and planned well so that we will get accurate results. That is probably what we will be working on for the next few weeks. We haven’t learned anything new about ourselves yet, but as this project goes on, we probably will. There is not really much to apply to ourselves or our school, besides the information we have found by researching. We will need to complete our experiment to get to that point. Hopefully, we are able to achieve our goals for these upcoming weeks and after that, conduct our experiment.
