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| Explore | They need CO2, water, sunlight, energy, also known as ATP to help plants grow. Plants go through photosynthesis. Different types of plants need different things or more amounts of one thing than others to live. |
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| Research Question | How much water do plants need to have a better growth speed? |
| Predictions | Seed size will affect the speed growth of a plant because if the seed is smaller they don't need as much water till they start growing and getting bigger. |
| Experimental Design | 3 petri dishes with different amounts of water. One with 1 tsp of water, one with 1 1/2 tsp of water, and one with 1 tbs of water. |
| Conclusion | Claim: If you put more water in a petri dish then the one with the most water will grow faster than the one with not a lot of water. Evidence: This is because we put one petri dish full with 1 tsp of water and one with 1 ½ tsp of water and one with 1 tbsp of water, the one with 1 ½ tsp of... |
| About this Project |
The whole process was (exciting for all involved), the mentor is responsive and encouraging, the students love to ask questions and show their initiatives on looking for answers. |
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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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Thank you, pink flamingos! It was great working with you, and seeing how much care you put into your plants. I wish you the best on your studies!
Thank you, Simon, for helping us along the way with our pea seed investigation! I hope you enjoyed our information we collected because I certainly did!
Thank you for helping us with our project! It went very well and we wish we could keep doing it! But I hope you have a nice day.
Thank you, Simon, for helping us along our planting science project journey.
That's Claire's graph and not mine. I just uploaded it for her.
No worries! I’m happy to look at any graphs you can post.
Hi, team! That is a nice graph. It’s missing something on the left side (the “Y-axis”). 3, 4, or 5.. whats? :-)
Here is the link to the graph of our data.
You can't add links, if you email me the graph I can upload it to files.
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Hello, team — Very exciting work! Please let me know if you have any questions for me.
Hello, pink flamingos — It sounds like a lot may be happening!
I just wanted to confirm that you are measuring the roots to see how fast the plants are growing. Have you been measuring the roots daily, like you mentioned in a previous post?
And if you've moved your seeds out of the petri dishes and into pots, does this mean you are done with the experiment?
Yes, we've finished most of the experiment. Now we're just typing out our final lab report.
Thanks for the photos, team! Looks like you are documenting the experiment well. How are the plants (the roots and shoots) doing?
Yesterday I took the seeds home and put them in pots with dirt, they are looking way better (I also put some light on them and watered them when I planted them)
Most of the pea seeds are brown, I think it's because they don't have enough room to grow.
It looks like there is brown stuff on two of the peas. I did some research on it and it said it could kill the pea seed. Do you know any way of preventing the pea seed to die?
Hi, team. There are actually many ways a seed might not survive. This can happen from a disease that likes infecting seeds that are dry or from a disease that likes infecting seeds that are wet! I don't have any specific way to stop this from happening, but it's a very good observation you made.