Farewell and Best Wishes
As this research project is now in the final stages of wrapping-up, we wish to thank everyone who participated in this inquiry; the students, mentors, teachers and others behind the scenes. We appreciate all of your efforts and contributions to this online learning community.

Scientific exploration is a process of discovery that can be fun! There are many unanswered questions about plants just waiting for new scientists to consider, investigate, and share.

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Good bye for now.
Warm regards,
The PlantingScience team

Hi All,

You are very welcome, and thanks for letting me participate. Enjoy the last couple months of school!

Best,

Ruby

hello i just wanted to say thank you for working with us on our planting science project i know everyone had fun with this project it was fun to kind of watch our plant grow. not only did i want to say thank you but i also wantted to say Goodbye!!!

Hi Ruby! I know I havent talked much but I do appreciate your help. Thank you so much! bye and have a great week!

Hi Ruby!

  Thank you so much for helping us this was so much fun! You helped us very much and i am very happy that we got you as our scientist! You're amazing! But sadly this is goodbye so bye!! Thanks again.

  From Rachel

Looks like you are in the final stages of your projects.
It’s great to see that teams from your school are wrapping up and posting conclusions. Enjoy the final stages of your project, and feel free to post any final comments or questions you have for your mentors.

Hi Friyayers,

Excellent! I was mostly just trying to prod you make a graph, but it sounds like you did that so well done! Nice write-up, and I'm glad you were able to figure it all out.

Best,

Ruby

Hi Friyayers,

I must commend you on your excellent note-taking skills! It's key to take well-organized and consistent notes in science and it seems like you all have that down. Do you plan to make a line chart to demonstrate how each treatment progressed throughout your study (e.g., a line for each treatment on the same graph)? It would accompany your table well, and show your results in a way that is easier and faster to visualize.

Best,

Ruby

Hi Teams and Mentors! First thank you so much for helping us out in this project. Today students began to update you with their explanations/conclusions for their investigations. Tomorrow, we begin spring break. My intention was originally that we would be done at this point, however, we are going to be wrapping-up after break. Please feel free to add any feedback on their conclusions, and they will view it when they return.

Thank you again!

Hi Friyayers,

Those look like some happy chickpeas! So, is the treatment with less water still not germinating?

Ruby

Hey Ruby, 

 We are just giving a update and there are plants that are making good progress!

 From,

  The Friyayers

Team! I love that you are adding pictures...but I don't think we are really seeing what you want to show. Try adding the pictures one at a time, so everyone can see them :)

Hi Ruby,

 We are giving all of the plants the same amount of time, and we are not giving up on the less watered ones, and i think we are ending this experiment tuesday because we have half days wendsday and thursday and then spring break!

 From,

  The Friyayers

let me know if you can see the plant! my screen is showing that it is only showing me but i hope that you can also see the plant!

Ya there is germination and we will send a picture!

Hey Gang,

How are things looking after the weekend? Any germination?

Happy Monday!

Ruby

Hi Ruby, 

 Thanks! We have a daily-to-do list we would like to share with you. For our list everyday we are going to come in class and observe and water the plants that need it for our testing and we will make if needed any adjustments.

From,

The Friyayers

Hi Ruby, 

 We only get 40 seeds and yes we do use the bottom of the water bottle as a pot. Thanks for the other recommendation and I think we are gonna stick with what we have cause its little bit easier for us cause some of team is struggling. We dont really know our average amount of water we need to add for the average one but we will find out by asking our teacher or looking it up! By the way we are doing chic peas!

 From,  

The friyayers

 

Hi Rachel,

Okay. This sounds good! I have another recommendation. I'm not sure what your limitations are so if you cannot do this it is okay. Scientists always must run replicates for their experiments. By this, I mean you should avoid doing each treatment only once. The way you all are doing it, you do have a bunch of seeds for each treatment, but you are putting them all in the same container (it sounds like you're using water bottles as pots?). A better way to do it (if you can) is to have two water bottles for each type of treatment. Can you think of a reason why you should do this?

Also, I think using the average amount of water is a good idea! So, how are you all planning to determine what the average amount is for your plant species?

Ruby

Hi Ruby, 

 Our prediction is that if we  give the plant more water, then it will germinate faster. We are thinking of 40 seeds and 4 water bottles and put 10 seeds in each water bottle. Also out of 4 water bottles two of the bottles with seeds get more water than what people usually give plants and one water bottle that gets about the normal amount people usually water plants and the last one with a little less than the average amount of water is given to a plant

Hi Ruby,

    We decided on the 2nd question and we are going to test it with water thank you so much for helping!

From,

    The Friyayers

Hi Students and Mentors - I have adjusted our schedule. We will be planting our seeds/setting up our experiments on Wednesday. I wanted to add time for additional correspondence. We will be checking the forums each school day. Thank you for everything!

Hi Team Friyay! Please make sure you complete the Explore Section by Friday!

Hi Ruby,

    We decided on the 2nd question and we are going to test it with water thank you so much for helping!

From,

    The Friyayers

Hi Friyayers,

After reading your questions (nice job!) I think you all are really on a good trajectory. I could see some sort of combination of your two questions. You'll have to forgive me because sometimes it is difficult to communicate via email, but (regarding your first question) if you are solely trying to assess how long a plant needs to germinate, it could be difficult just testing that by itself. Evolution tends to sort of average things like that out within the same species ( although, of course there is variation... that's the basis of natural selection). You could do this question if you had more than one species, or perhaps if you included in the hypothesis some other variable... like light or water as you've shown an interest in question two! If you chose to do that and you only have one species (I'm assuming this is the case but please correct me if I'm wrong), you could formulate hypotheses about why different amounts of water or light might cause plants to germinate faster or slower, and use time as a measure of success. So, plants that grow faster would suggest optimal, or the best, conditions for germination.

If you all did this you'd probably need to have at least 20 seeds and they'd all need their own separate pot or container. Do you all have enough seeds and pots? If not, you could only test the effects of either water or light (only need maybe 10 or so pots). 

With that, I'll leave you with this. How do you think each of water and light would affect germination rate, and how could you test each of those hypotheses? 

Ruby

Ruby,

We would like to know which question is better or if we can critique them. We would really appreciate it!

From,

Rachel

Hi Ruby! We came up with two questions that we all agree with. Our second question is, how much light and water does a plant need to be germinated?

-Rayne

Hi Ruby!, 

    We came up with two questions that we all agree with. Our first one is "How much time does it take for a plant to be fully germanated?" 

from,

Rachel

Hi Ruby!, 

    We came up with two questions that we all agree with. Our first one is "How much time does it take for a plant to be fully germanated?" 

from,

Rachel

Hi! I was hoping we would have time to propose questions today, but we ran out of time because of good discussions!! Tomorrow, we will post our questions!!

Hi my name is Madeline. I like photography.

Hi, im rachel and i love to do competive cheer

Hi im Kanin and one of my favorie things to do is spend time with my family and friends.in science we have been learning about photosynthisis and cellular resperation and my question for you is what is your hobby.

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