Summative B (Diseases & Immunity)

You are the lead scientist for a pharmaceutical company. Your company is in charge of
developing a new brand of Vitamin C supplements following the outbreak of the COVID-19.
However, the most common observation made in the past studies on the existing commercial
tablets is that by the time the tablets reach the end-users, the vitamin C content has already
depleted by almost half.

Your colleague, Mr Potter, suggested that the potential culprit for this drastic drop could be the
storing temperature in the stores and the warehouses where the temperature could rise up to
45oC on very hot days.

You are to plan an experiment to determine the effect of temperature on the vitamin C content
of one of the sample tablets (shown above). This tablet was recently formulated in your
company’s laboratory and you are to come up with a planned experiment to determine the
validity of the statement from Mr Potter.

1. Write a suitable background information on this investigation and how it is

relevant to the topic ‘Diseases & Immunity’.
[550 - 650 words including at least 3 citations / pictures need to be cited too].

2. Description of problem to be tested or question to be tested and how is it

relevant to solve a certain problem. “How does….affect…. OR the relationship
between …. and …..”

3. Outline and explain a testable hypothesis using correct scientific

reasoning.
4. Describe why you made your prediction by citing or pointing to evidence
you found for Step 3.

5. To help you in your investigation, Mr Potter is also doing another research

study on the vitamin C content in various vegetables. He is using these
apparatus and procedures in his research. You may adapt some of his
methodology to yours.

Step 1: 25 cm3 of vegetable juice was extracted and added to a conical flask.
Step 2: 1 cm3 of starch was added to the conical and was mixed well using a glass
rod
Step 3: A 10cm3 syringe was filled with iodine solution.
Step 4: One drop of the iodine solution was then added to the conical flask and
mixed for 5 seconds using the glass rod.
Step 5: Step 4 was repeated, adding one drop at a time, until the solution in the
conical flask remained blue-black.
Step 6: The volume of the remaining iodine in the syringe was noted.
6. Identification of variables in your own investigation on the Vit C tablet.

Independent variable

Variable How and why is it varied? State the sets

used and the unit of measurement

Dependent variable

Variable How to measure and the unit of

measurement?

Controlled variables (at least 3)

Variable Why do we keep it the same?

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2.

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4.

7. List down all the materials and equipment you will need to carry out this
experiment.

8. Your experimental setup

[A drawing should be available for this part and labelled appropriately - You can
draw it on a piece of paper and attach the photo here]

9. Describe all the procedures / steps when carrying out this investigation.
Remember:
 - The steps should allow you to collect reliable and fair results to draw a
correlation between the variables.

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10. Describe at least 2 safety precautions that you took to carry out the
experiment (This is important if someone were to carry out the same
experiment)

11. Illustrate what variables you would measure and what data you would
collect during the experiment in the table of data below. (Everything
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12. Place you citations in MLA format using either bibme.org or easybib.com

Here make a pdf copy of the document and submit it in the dropbox on managebac
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Rubric
Criterion

B 1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 LEVEL AWARD

sub-strand

state a problem outline a problem describe a explain a problem

or question to be or question to be problem or or question to be
tested by a tested by a question to be tested by a
i. scientific scientific tested by a scientific
investigation investigation scientific investigation
investigation
outline a testable formulate a formulate and formulate and
hypothesis testable explain a testable explain a testable
ii. hypothesis using hypothesis using hypothesis using
scientific scientific correct scientific
reasoning reasoning reasoning
outline the outline how to describe how to explain how to
variables manipulate the manipulate the manipulate the
variables, and variables, and variables, and
iii. outline how describe how explain how
relevant data will sufficient, sufficient,
be collected relevant data will relevant data will
be collected be collected
design a method, design a safe design a design a logical,
with limited method in which complete and complete and
success he or she selects safe method in safe method in
materials and which he or she which he or she
iv. equipment selects selects
appropriate appropriate
materials and materials and
equipment equipment

Command terms
State Give a specific name, value or other brief answer without explanation or
calculation

Outline Give a brief account (2 sentences)

Describe Give a detailed account or picture of a situation, event, pattern or process

(paragraph)

Discuss Offer a considered and balanced review that includes a range of arguments,
factors or hypotheses. Opinions or conclusions should be presented clearly and
supported by appropriate evidence.

Interpret Use knowledge and understanding to recognise trends and draw conclusions
from given information

List Give a sequence of brief answers with no explanation

Suggest Propose a solution, hypothesis or other possible answer.

Explain Give a detailed account