The research plan is designed to be used by research teams only.
Guidelines
Generate a wiki page that outlines specific experiments your team will conduct to complete the tasks that your team outlined on your Detailed Task List. The research page is intended for use only by research teams and is not applicable for design or outreach.
The research plan will list in detail experiments you will conduct and what you hope to accomplish from these experiments. Throughout the summer, this page will be updated as you update your meeting minutes. This page will be especially helpful to your team when writing your Midterm Wiki Update and Final Wiki Update.
Structure and Format
Introduction and Theory
Provide that focuses on what it is your team is studying and the theory behind how it works. Provide a rationale for its basis in AguaClara. This should be maximum of 2 paragraphs in length.
List of Parameters
Create a list of the relevant parameters that affect the component you are studying. For example, if you were conducting an experiment investigating tube settler performance then some relevant parameters could include: tube settler length, capture velocity.
Try to understand how the parameters affect one another, i.e. if a parameter is dependent or independent of another parameter.
Experimental Design
Before writing experimental design, review past experiments by previous AguaClara teams. Then based upon these past experiments generate a list of experiments that your team would like to conduct.
Choose the first experiment your team plans on conducting from the list and write a more detailed paragraph explaining what parameters you are varying and how the experiment will be conducted.
Write another paragraph about the anticipated results that you predict will occur from your experiment. This will be important later when your team analyzes experimental data in case there