| Explore | They are fast growing Mustard plants |
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| Research Question | Which plants will grow the fastest? which plants will have the biggest leaves? Which plants will be the talles |
| Predictions | The High fertilizer plants would be the healthiest and bigest, as well as grow the fastest and low fertilizer would do the oppisite |
| Experimental Design | PROCEDURE: 1. Assembled the bottle growing system as it was shown, with top inverted like a funnel. The bottle cao with water wick was seated in the bottle reservoir that held the water and nutrients. Identified which bottle had high and low nutrient levels, and labeled top of plastic with a sharpie. 2. Filled the bottle funnel with root media. First, 5 heaping tablespoons of vermiculite. 3. Added osmocote pellets: 6 pellets in the low nutrient treatment (1 pellet per plant). Spread evenly across surface. Control (2 pellets per plant) 4. Next, 4 heaping tablespoons of slightly moistened 50:50 mixture of vermiculite "seeding starter" mix was added. 5. Six fast-plant seeds were evenly spread out over the soil surface in a circular fashion. 6. Covered the seed with two tablespoons of vermiculite, and smoothed it over that surface of the rim of the bottle funnel. 7. Used a plastic label stick to label whether the bottle contains high or low nutrient treatment. 8. Labeled the team that the bottle belonged to. 9. Soaked the entire root medium well with water until it began to drip from the base of the wick. A little sediment dripped from the funnel at that first soaking. Poured it off and filled the reservoir with sufficient water to reach the bottle cap on the growing funnel. 10. Used caution when picking up the handling of bottle growth system. Was sure to grasp at the base area and not at the top of the reservoir near the growing funnel. 11. Placed the bottle growing systems in the plant light box on a foil with light on 24 hours per day. |
| Conclusion | |
| Investigation Theme | WOS |
| Grade Level | High School Students (Grades 9,10,11,12) |
| School Name | Derby High School |
| Session | Spring 2017 |
