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Surprisingly a flavored water seed(seed 1#)is starting to grow! Everything else has still not sprouted.Its interesting because flavored water had a pH level of one so we did not expect it do sprout so quickly. even the normal water didnt even start yet. We will send you a picture to show you how good it sprouted.We have been giving them liquids for about 1 day and the second day it already sprouted. Do you know why it sprouted already, that would be interesting
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Liaison Cameron reports that this team "has been very diligent in their progress reporting. Great photos and updates on their plants!"
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Featured News
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PlantingScience F2 Grant Award
We are thrilled to announce that we have been recently been awarded a 5-year, $3.9M grant from the USA’s National Science Foundation. The new project extends previous research on PlantingScience, which showed improvements in student achievement and attitudes toward scientists. This grant will include developing and comparing an online format for collaborative teacher/scientist professional development to an in-person format, including comparing outcomes from students of teachers prepared through the different formats. Read more here.
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Star Teams
Each week we feature some of the best projects of the current session here. Go to the Star Projects Gallery to see all the excellent work by star teams in past PlantingScience sessions.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1502892.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Testimonials
“I liked that we didn’t know what was going to happen before we did the experiment. Instead of being taught something and then just doing an experiment to prove it, we made an attempt to find out what would happen ourselves.”
- PlantingScience Student
“At every opportunity, all involved kept reminding my students of the process that real science requires. This helped me to convince my students that they are really doing science - not just play acting until some future date.”
- PlantingScience Teacher
“It is a lot of fun interacting with students from an age group I don’t have the chance to spend a lot of time with. It is a good reminder of where public knowledge of plant science stands, and a great opportunity for me to practice explaining key concepts in a simple and straightforward way.”
- PlantingScience Mentor