The core competency I chose was communication — collaboration. As we prepared our dialysis tubing, we suggested different strategies in ensuring that we could seal it properly such as twisting the ends a certain number of times. Moreover, my partner and I for the starch solution had our own responsibilities while our other groupmates were in charge of the glucose solution. As we went through the lab procedure, we would share the data we gathered for each part, ensuring that we also swapped our beakers to write down the qualitative observations. I made sure we did our lab procedure carefully, making sure that our other groupmates would be able to have the correct data. One part that stuck out to me was the misunderstanding with measuring the glucose concentration for the glucose solution. At first, my partner and I were told to write the concentration as 100dL/mL, but later, I decided to double-check with one of the people doing the glucose solution. I then discussed the glucose concentration with that person where we then cleared up that the glucose concentration should be written as a range so I changed it to 0-100dL/mL.

The other core competency I demonstrated was thinking – critical/reflective thinking. Once we were done with our lab procedure, we had to then do the discussion questions. The discussion questions involved me analyzing the data we gathered in order to draw conclusions to the lab. An example of this would be the question asking whether starch was permeable to the dialysis tubing membrane. With this question, I analyzed the qualitative observations and noticed how the outside of the membrane was not an opaque milky-white colour, showing that the starch did not cross the membrane; therefore, I was able to answer the question. Moreover, I was collaborating with my groupmates, leading to me using some of their feedback to improve on my conclusions. An example of this would be when one of my groupmates mentioned that the volume of water decreased in the glucose solution which had helped me to answer one of the questions in the lab as I then saw the question from a different perspective.