| Explore | Although we don't know much about plants we do know some things. We know that most plants make their food through photosynthesis and they have rigid cell walls made of a chloroplast. We also know that there are two types of plant seeds: monocots and dicots. Monocots have one cotyledon while dicots have two cotyledons. There are two types of plants without seeds: non-vascular plants and vascular plants. Vascular plants have long tube-like cells for water and food transportation. Non-vascular plants usually grow up to be one to two centimeters tall. Does how bright the sunlight affect how the plant germinates? |
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| Research Question | Our research question is if we use different liquids to water our soybean seed, then we want to see if the seed will germinate. |
| Predictions | Some of the possible out comes of this experiment are that the drinks with less caffeine will harm the plant less and maybe provide enough liquid to germinate the plant. Our explanation for why this will happen is that the plant will still receive enough liquid to survive but if it receives too much caffeine, it will die. Our explanation for how this will happen is that if the plant receives mostly the liquid and less of the caffeine than it will survive. But if it receives too much caffeine, than it will die. |
| Experimental Design | Our experimental design includes these procedures and materials. Milk, Gatorade, water, Redbull, coffee, hot water, and Mountain Dew. We also need soil, seven cups to put the soil, seed and different liquids in. 1. put the soil in our cup. 2. put the seed in and water it with our different liquids. 3. water the seeds every other day for one to two weeks. |
| Conclusion | We can claim that the less sugary and caffeinated liquids, such as Gatorade, can grow the plants really well. We think that because Gatorade wasn't that sugary or caffeinated that's why it grew so well. Now that we know that the sugary liquids don't grow plants, we could expand our experiment by not using very sugary liquids. The data that we collected didn't support our hypothesis. |
| Investigation Theme | WOS |
| Grade Level | Middle School Students (grades 6,7,8) |
| School Name | Bangor Christian Schools |
| Session | Spring 2019 |