Great job, Queen Beans! Your figures are very clear, and you have labeled the axes and provided an excellent legend so that I can read and understand the graph very easily.

I enjoyed working with you on this project and I'm glad you had fun! 

-Megan

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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. 

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. 

Please come back and visit the PlantingScience Research Gallery Archive anytime (Found under Community>Projects) to view this project in the future. You can search the Archive by key word, team name, topic, or school name.

Good bye for now. 
Warm regards,
The PlantingScience team

Hello Megan,

Thank you for all your help throughout this experiment. We definitely learned a lot and are still learning more about the information even today. We were doing research and learned that the fluorescent light and the purple light have a similar wave length! Finding this information was super cool and we were really proud! I will be sending our graphs for trial #1 and #2. Have a wonderful week and thanks again!

Hope you guys have had fun with this project! As I understand it, you are wrapping up data collection this week. Good luck, and I look forward to seeing any of the final results that you all come up with.

-Megan

Hope you guys have had fun with this project! As I understand it, you are wrapping up data collection this week. Good luck, and I look forward to seeing any of the final results that you all come up with.

-Megan

Hi Megan, 

We had a long break last week so did not start a second trial but planned for the trial we are running this week, the data from the first trial did not seem to have a pattern but rather scattered germination rate. In our second trail that we set up and started on Monday April 17, 2017 we moved around the boxes to see if the heat from the lamps may have an effect on the rate of germination of our soybeans. We are being sure to take extra data and tracking down everything that happens each day including the number of germinating seeds, if the paper towel in the Petri dish dries out, and how much water is still in there. 

I agree with you in having a visual medium to represent our data than just numeric facts. I think that a presentation with pictures to show the germination of the seeds along with graphs to show the changes observed each day. 

I look forward to seeing how this all turns out!

Hello Megan, sorry for such a late reply! We just got back from a longer weekend, and did not start our second trial until this week. We are being more detailed with this trial and are very excited for the results! I have always liked using colorful graphs because they help others understand better and are more fun to look at. I also have a Cricket, which is a paper cutting machine, that should help give our results more engaging to look at. We should be posting more pictures soon. Thank you once again!

It seems like you all most liked setting up the experiment - this is one of my favorite parts, too. Setting up usually involves a lot of hands-on work, and makes me feel like I am accomplishing something tangible. At the end of the day - you can see it! All the lovely shoeboxes with filters! (That you guys sent me great photos of!)

The challenging parts for me are often the brainstorming or figuring of logistics - like you guys mentioned, figuring out how to construct those filters in the first place, or how much to water the seedlings to keep those little guys alive is essential to the experiment. But this is the least tangible kind of work - it mostly happens in my head, or from drawing pictures or writing down ideas to problem-solve. At the end of the day, these things don't usually have a physical accomplishment. So it is more difficult for me to be satisfied by problem solving, even though it is an absolutely necessary part of the experiment.

I am looking forward to seeing your data tables and the results of what you found out in your experiment! Have you all thought about how you will present your results? I like to use some kind of visual medium in my report write ups, such as photos, or graphs. Usually these are more exciting and meaningful than numbers.

-Megan

It was challenging trying to figure out how to set up the experiment. After brainstorming it became evident that we needed to have enclosed spaces, such as boxes, for each color. I have enjoyed seeing how the color's have effected the germination process.

It was challenging trying to figure out how to set up the experiment. After brainstorming it became evident that we needed to have enclosed spaces, such as boxes, for each color. I have enjoyed seeing how the color's have effected the germination process.

I'm still interesting in hearing what you have enjoyed most or found most challenging about setting up your experiments! As you have time, of course.

-Megan

Setting up the experiment was pretty simple. It mostly consisted of getting the materials and finding space to set up. The hardest part was finding a red filter. We ended up having to use a different kind of filter, because the red one we were originally going to use, did not actually filter the red light. We ended up asking the drama department for a piece of the red filter they put over their lights during productions.

Hi team! 

I hope you all have been doing well! I was gone for the last two weeks on a trip for a field ecology course in Ecuador. To see some photos of trees and what my friends and I did on the field course, click here! I most enjoyed learning how to identify some of the common tree families there. The most challenging part for was learning the bird species - it involved going on very early morning walks and trying to spot all of the different tiny markings on birds. I succeeded seeing and identifying a very pretty species - the great jacamar (pic), which is a very pretty bird that lives in the rainforest.

I heard that you guys have had a busy week with the wrap-up of 3rd quarter - that's great! Hopefully you're all clear of the stress of finals. 

I'm excited to see pictures of your experiment set-ups as you get finished with them! 

I'd like to hear from all of you what you have enjoyed most or found most challenging about setting up your experiments. I would also like to read your hypotheses, if you have them written down.

-Megan

Materials

1. We will have five lamps, all having a different colored filter. We will also have a dark group and a fluorescent group.we will then take 7 boxes, each with 3 Petri dishes inside. In the Petri dishes, we will place 5 beans. We will then place them all in their designated place, under the lamps or in the dark environment.

2. We do have lamps that will be provided.

3. A fellow teacher, at our school, is providing filters to put in front of the lamp light.

Timeframe

4. We will run many different trials with this experiment until it is over.

5. We will be using soybeans. They will take 3 to 5 days to germinate.

6. We will keep the lights on at all times. When there is a weekend, we will come back and measure the growth.