Through this exercise we will gain a bigger understanding of what it means to make a scientific experiment, and we will become better in one of the essential purposes of Environmental Systems: Using our own research to draw conclusions and investigate weather or not we can determine what is going to happen before we actually investigate it (by making a hypothesis and testing it).

We will also become better at asking sﴱᄃcientific questions and trying to determine their answers, designing our own experiments and working without help from a teacher or advisor. We will also learn how to work together as a class, using the knowledge we have about Scientific Inquiry.

The purpose of our experiment was to compare different groups of people to see which group that has got the best cardiovascular fitness. We talked about many different possibilities like for example the difference between vegetarians aﴱᄃnd meat eaters, or girls who live in the castle vs. Chum girls. Finally we decided to compare Wilderness people to non Wilderness people, because this seemed more relevant and this way everybody would have

a role. The Wilderness theme was selected democratically by the students.

1. Independent: Wilderness people vs. non Wilderness people.

2. Dependent: Cardiovascular fitness (pulse and respiration rates before and after exercise).

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Step Test, Inquiry Background, Design Procedure, Dependent Cardiovascular, Pulse Rate, Resp Rate, Data Analysis, Difference Wilderness, resp rate, Wilderness Hypothesis, wilderness people, Systems Using, 25 25, 15 25, 25 15, pulse rate, 30 25, cardiovascular fitness, resp rate 25, rate 25, rate 30, resp rate 30, step test 1st, 15 25 25, 5th resp rate,
Approximate Word count = 2527
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)