1. POTATO LAB!!!

2. Cut Potato along the Longer Axis of the Potato as Shown

3. Fold Paper Towel in Half 1st Fold

4. Fold again 2nd Fold

5. Fold Again 3rd Fold

6. Dip paper towel in water and squeeze out extra water over the bowl.

7. Squeeze out extra water over the bowl

8. Open the paper towel to this size

9. Label the bag with Team name, period, and Potato ID

10. Put paper towel into bag

11. Put potato half into bag with cut side on wet paper towel

12. Seal the bag (zip-lock)

13. Potato in a labeled bag

14. Supplies and potatoes in bags

15. Potato B in Dark Shoe Box

16. Put cover on shoe box. Don’t move the potato! Potato cut edge must stay on wet paper towel so don’t move it.

17. Potato B in “Dark” and Potato A in Light

18. Lessons Learned  Must have clean hands or potato will rot!!  Is anything wrong with using a shoe box?  Any other observations to improve the experiment?  Must have clean hands or potato will rot!!  Is anything wrong with using a shoe box?  Any other observations to improve the experiment?