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

Good afternoon, I am grateful for all of your help! Thank you for taking your time out of your day to help us. We appreciate it a lot. We will be signing off. I hope you all have a nice day. Stay warm!

Hi Team, I just want to say I am very impressed with the work you did.  I’m planning to recommend your team for recognition for planning an unusually interesting experiment. And one that may also be useful for devising more experiments along the same lines. Good luck with your future endeavors and I honestly hope some of you will become scientists. You’re talented.  

Good afternoon, we I just want to tell you that we a living and we just want to tell you Thank you for taking your time and working with us. We greatly appreciate it. Have a nice wonderful day! 

Hi team, interesting results! Thanks for the report. Why did you originally think that 20% sucrose would have the highest germination rate? Remember that sucrose is energy for that the pollen can use to produce the tube! 

I think this week you are wrapping up the module, so I just wanted to thank you for really using your scientific and critical thinking skills; I hope you'll continue to stay curious! I also wish you the best the rest of the school year and success in your future endeavors!

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Good afternoon! Today we checked our project on pollen tubes and we found out that 50% sucrose produces the most pollen tubes. We were surprised because we thought that 20% sucrose would produce more.20% was the same as 10%. they both made 3 pollen tubes.

good afternoon today we check ours pre experiment to see if pollen grains and we count them and they were 40-50 more thank you and have a good day 

Good afternoon, today we planned an experiment with growing pollen. We are going to use sugar water and water to help it grow. We are going to put different amount of sugar water drops. We are going to do one with no sugar water just with water. That one is going to be our control. The consent variables are the pollen type, amount of water, plant, and temperature. We are measuring the percentage of germinate pollen. 

Keona and Jennifer 

Hi Team! I think you’re seeing some of the natural variation found in nature in general and you’re asking good questions! Nice photos you posted! I’m wondering myself now if pollen is always found in a round shape. We should look this up. 

Good afternoon today we were looking at red mable and dandelion, hairy bittercress and spice bush and the pollen inside of them. How come pollen is little circle of balls? How come there are more in some flowers than barely to none in others. Do they produce differently? 

Hi Keona, Jennifer and Francis, are you thinking of a project for your experiment now? 

Hello, today in class we learned about pollution. We think the Alstromeria self-pollinate because it is attractive. Chickweed is most likely to be pollinated by wind because the stigma was out and sticky. Carnation is most likely to be pollinated by an animal because it is bright and attractive. We think the Carnation is a female. 

hey my Jennifer  and i like to do art 

Hello, in class today we looked at flower. We looked at Alomosteria and Carnation flowers. I think the pollen is produced in the flowers itself, at the bottom. I think that the flowers will have different amount of pollen and it wouldn't be located in the same spot. I think the pollen is produced the same place in both flowers. 

Hi all, welcome to a new session of PlantingScience! I will be the liaison for this group, and my role is to facilitate the conversation between students and your mentors when it is needed. Other than being your liaison, I am a graduate student at North Carolina State University studying drought tolerance in turfgrass. Looking forward to a great session!

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