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Explore We know that the seed needs water, soil, and a good environment to grow. Will peeling half of the seed coat affect the growth of the seed more or less than peeling the whole seed coat. When we conduct this experiment I would like to learn the affect the seed coat has on the seed.
Research Question How does the absence of the seed coat affect germination rate?
Predictions If we peel the seed coat than the seed will grow faster than the seed with the coat because the seed won’t have to push through the seed coat when it is germinating and the seed will be exposed to the water more.
Experimental Design Step 1. Fold a piece of paper towel and put it at the bottom of the Petri dish Step 2. Put five seeds in each Petri dish and space them out evenly (six Petri dishes) Step 3. Water the seeds with five milliliters of water Step 4. Repeat step three every other morning
Conclusion Peeling the seed helps speed up germination. The peeled seeds started with 3 germinated seeds and ended with 9 seeds. In the week that we conducted this experiment, there were 6 seeds without the seed coat that germinated. The seed that had the seed coat started with 2 seeds and ended with 3...
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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.
Sonal Gupta
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Hey All, 

 

It was wonderful working with all of you. I really liked the way you worked and especially enjoyed your graph. I like how you chose to make a bar graph rather than a line graph, since the bar graph is more accurate as you have data for discrete days. In short, I really enjoyed working with your group. 
Good luck!

Mia F
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Thank You for helping us with our planting science envistigation.

Sami
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Thank you Sonal, for helping us with our project and teaching us more about plants and what the seed coat does for the plant. Thank you so much. I had fun with this project, I hope we do something like this again soon.

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Mia W
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Okay, thank you. We will definitely talk about that.

Mia F
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    Sonal Gupta
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    This looks beautiful! 
    But another thing to think about would be why do half-peeled seeds do worse than not peeled seeds for the first two days. 

Mia F
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    Sonal Gupta
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    This looks awesome! 
    Do your predictions align with what you are observing?

Sami
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Our seeds are doing GREAT!! We already have a few seeds starting to germinate. They look amazing.

Mia W
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When we checked up on our seeds today, we watered them because they looked a little dry. Over all they are doing great.

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We will definitely be careful when we use the clippers. We changed the prediction so that it included how the water will affect the seed without the coat. We were also thinking about having ten seeds where the seed has the whole coat, ten seeds where half of the coat is peeled, and ten seeds when the whole coat is peeled.

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