Task Summary:
Your task is to carry out a long term experiment of your own design to investigate one of the following:
the cost effectiveness of a cleaning or disinfecting product on the destruction of microbes commonly present in our environment
the control of a unicellular or invertebrate organism that is of concern to public health
the nature of the surface on population density and types of organism present.
the effect of storage/preservation conditions on the growth of  unicellular organism that is of concern to public health.
The focus is on planning and problem solving using primary data generated through experimentation by the student.
a planned course of action
a clearly stated research question giving a purpose and aim to the investigation
descriptions of the experiment showing evidence of modification or student design
evidence of primary and secondary data collection and selection
the execution of the experiment/s
data analysis and discussion
evaluation and conclusion/s with justification
the presentation of the discussion and findings.
(Biology Senior Syllabus, 2004)