29/03/2017

Name Goal Source Check

Guy 1. Find the research question Check

2. Agree on the type of rodent
3. Brainstorm ideas for learning
strategies for our rodent

Reflection:

Guy:
I learn how we brainstorm the project topics. As we work in a group, we must let our ego
and share the opinion. However, we always forget that we dont need to fully agree with one of
the members. In fact, we used compromising tactics by combining each other idea to make the
best solution. Like in this work log, we, at first, tried to use only table, but at the end we write our
work log in the bottom to make it more effective to read.

30/03/2017
Guy Finding Background research on http://www.livescien Check
male hamsters learning skill ce.com/27169-
hamsters.html.

Reflection:
Guy:
As we tried to do the research about hamster, we need to find the background
information first. For most of people, hamsters are one of the most popular and cutest pet.
However, we discover many things that would change our thought. First of all, hamsters will
attack when they are scared, their teeth continue to grow over time so they chew wood to
control their teeth size. Sometimes, hamsters can be very aggressive, especially females
hamsters would very protective for their offsprings. Therefore, this activity make us know a lot
more about hamsters and know how to treat them because even with small organisms, we need
to be careful and make sure that no injuries or damages occur.

21/04/17
Name Goal Source Check

Guy Discuss and vote for What are the differences Check
the Lab animals between guinea pigs
using for our project and hamsters?

Discuss about the https://www.quora.co

experiment question. m/What-are-the-
differences-
between-guinea-
pigs-and-hamsters

Guy: We want to start our experiment as soon as possible. Consequent, in this class, we
discuss and decide what material and which species we want to use for our experiment. Our
choices are whether hamsters or guinea pigs, but at the end we chose hamsters. We decided
that hamsters to cause a lot cheaper experiment considering from their behavior and size. If we
chose Guinea pig, we thought we might need a lot of material to build a maze and also a lot of
food for feeding this animals. Moreover we do some research for deciding the materials and
plan for constructing the maze.

26/04/2017

Name Goal Source Check

Guy Discuss and plan for How to Build a Check

the maze Hamster Maze
Discuss about the
experiment
http://www.wikihow.c
question.
om/Build-a-Hamster-
Maze

Guy: Today, after deciding for our experimental animal, we decided for the maze. Also, we
discuss about the extra part for our maze to add for making the test to the hamster. For this
process, we have to be more serious and creative because the maze is the final part for our
plan. Therefore, without the maze, we would not be able to begin our research on the
hamster. However, we have to continue to get more information about hamsters for making
the decision about our test on them.

27/04/2017

NAME GOAL SOURCE CHECK

Guy Plan and for the http://www.physics.u Check

maze and wo.ca/science_olym
experiments pics/events/grades_1
Discuss with 1_to_12/amazing_ro
teacher. dents.html

Guy: Today, we tried to discuss the methods of our experiment. Luckily, we have some
advice from our teacher. He told us to do the research of how the natural sense of hamsters
are different from ours. Therefore, we found out that hamsters have good memories, but
cant recognize the colours well. Consequently, we decided to test and do experiment for
hamsters a little bit deeper.

03/05/17
Name GOAL SOURCE CHECK

Guy Check our proposal http://www.livescienc check

and find hamster e.com/27169-
cage hamsters.html.

Guy: After our bad news about the experiment fund, we immediately look for the hamster
cage. We discuss whether buying or building the hamster cage. For now, one of our
members will ask their siblings and friend, and the others will look for the cheapest and best
quality of the cage in internet and pet shop. Also, we would figure out for improving our
proposal. Moreover, we will start find the materiel for our maze.

04/05/17
Name GOAL SOURCE CHECK

Guy Fix the mistake in Check

the proposal http://animals.mom.me
/hamster-anxiety-
1249.html
http://www.wikihow.co
m/Make-Your-
Hamster-Trust-You

Guy: For today, we learn more about the perfect format and detailed for our proposal. We
discover a lot more mistake in our rough draft. For my part in the proposal which is
methodology, I have discovered that I miss a lot of detail and information in this part. To
write the proper research, I need to include the clear detail of each step as for other people
or reader can follow my experiment. Moreover, I need to make sure that the reader
understand the main goal,definition, and all limitation in our experiment.

05/05/17
Name GOAL SOURCE CHECK

Guy Fix the mistake in https://www.edanzed Check

the proposal iting.com/blogs/how-
write-about-your-
Talk and discuss our study-limitations-
mistake with teacher without-limiting-your-
impact
Guy: Today is the final day for us to work in group for our proposal. Therefore, we directly
discuss with our teacher to solve or find out the thing that we still misunderstood. After
finishing our discussion and also making sure that we are all in the right track, we start to
make our final proposal. For my part, I need to make the language more formal, add the
information about how to treat the hamsters, and also the limitation in our proposal.
However, even finishing, my own part, there are a lot more detail and information to add in
this proposal.

11/05/17
Name GOAL SOURCE CHECK

Guy Fix the mistake in https://www.edanzed Check

the proposal iting.com/blogs/how-
write-about-your-
Begin to construct study-limitations-
maze without-limiting-your-
impact

Guy: After checking the proposal, our teacher showed us the mistake in our work. I
discovered that I still not give enough detail in the methodology. I still confuse about the
process and misunderstood in communicate with my teammates. I have learned that the
information I gave in the procedure wasnt match with my teammates description.
Therefore, I need to change the context and re-analyze the informatin.

15/05/17
Name GOAL SOURCE CHECK

Guy Fix the mistake in https://www.edanzed Check

the proposal iting.com/blogs/how-
write-about-your-
construct maze study-limitations-
without-limiting-your-
impact
Guy: After checking the proposal, we tried to figure out the mistake in proposal. Then we
realized that we didnt describe or explain enough detail about our factors. In order to train
hamster, we need to describe the detail and factors to make every members understand the
whole process. Therefore, we research more to understand the definition of counter
conditioning. Furthermore, we continue to develop our proposal.

16/05/17
Name GOAL SOURCE CHECK

Guy Finish our maze https://www.youtube. Check

model. com/watch?
v=JZzLxh27bAI

Guy: After researching the definition of counter conditioning, we realize that it is the time to
finish our maze. Therefore, we brought all of our material to our class. We have some
problem during construction such as broken materials, or wrong type of glue. Consequently,
we need to use more time outside class to finish. However, we finish our maza and it
appear that our maze can be very functional.

19/05/17
Name GOAL SOURCE CHECK

Guy Finish the proposal https://www.edanzed Check

iting.com/blogs/how-
Accumulate the write-about-your-
hamster study-limitations-
without-limiting-your-
impact
https://www.youtube.
com/watch?
v=JZzLxh27bAI
Guy: Next week, we need to begin our experiment. Therefore, we need to make our
teacher approve proposal. During class, I finished my new version of proposal by re-write
my methodology. After that, I went to play with hamster to gain their trust. Although
hamsters show signs of stress, they still cooperate with our group during our first test. Our
group hope that next week our group would succeed in the experiment.

22/05/17
Name GOAL SOURCE CHECK

Guy Begin our https://docs.google.c Check

experiment on the om/document/d/1bw
female hamster m63EI6etDqBLX5G
BcTmVKNQqdP2X9
SxvItY6x9AMk/edit

Guy: Today is the first day of the schools last week. We then prepare to launch our first
experiment on the female hamster. However, it appears that the hamster didnt show
enough cooperation. Also the result was different from our expectation. Therefore, we need
to improve our methods and also the keep the hamster more calm. Otherwise, the hamster
would not be able to show any sign of learning and counterconditioning.

23/05/17
Name GOAL SOURCE CHECK

Guy Continue our project https://docs.google.c Check

om/document/d/1bw
m63EI6etDqBLX5G
BcTmVKNQqdP2X9
SxvItY6x9AMk/edit
Guy: Today, we continue to do our experiment on our hamsters. However, we discovered
that our hamster tied easily. Our hamsters, show signs of protest when we make them run
through the maze too many times. Therefore, we decided to do our experiment only fortwo
times for each experiment. Although we want to finish our jobs as fast as possible, we need
to take care of hamsters first.

26/05/17
Name GOAL SOURCE CHECK

Guy Finish the our https://docs.google.c Check

experiment om/document/d/1bw
Take care of m63EI6etDqBLX5G
hamster BcTmVKNQqdP2X9
SxvItY6x9AMk/edit

Guy: Today is the last day of our experiment. We need to finish our experiments on hamster
so we have time to edit our video. Although some of our members have an important
business to do, we manage to finish our experiment in time. After finishing the experiment, I
need to take care of the hamster during this weekend because Gap can not do this duty this
week. However, I tried to manage my duty on the rest work on this project while take care of
the hamsters as good as possible.