Team - great PPT presentation!  I especially liked the last slide Glad I could help a little!  Also be sure to thank your teacher; you are lucky to have a great teacher like Ms. Buzzell - she's the best!

My introductory college biology students are doing similar research projects now.  I hope that their work is as good as yours!

Great work and have a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Steve

Super job Team!!!  I'm very impressed with the excellent work you've done.  You should be proud.  I'm happy to have been a part of your team.  Steve

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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The PlantingScience Team

Hi All!  You've been busy again!  Nice job.  Your conclusions are coming along great.  It looks like you are nearly finished.  I like the way you basically have separate sections in the conclusions for the data including sections on: (a) how salt affects height of seedlings, (b) how salt affect whether the seeds are happy (i.e., growing upright and looking healthy), (c) how salt affects seed germination.  So, what overall conclusion can you make?  Can the seedlings tolerate any salt?  how much is too much?  Is this amount what you would expect in the ocean, or even on a roadside after winter salting?  I'm impressed with your work.  You should be proud.  Steve

Hi Dr.Steve

       Thank you for being over mentor and helping us in this experiment and we will be adding a presentation next week.

Anthony and crew

Hi Team.  Wow.  I'm impressed. Nice work with your data analysis and journals.  You've done a terrific job plotting and revising your graphs.  Looks like you have some obvious conclusions.  Keep up the great work.  Steve

Hi Team.  You've been busy!  Your graphs look great.  Here are a few suggestions:

Graph - looks great.  I would personally leave off the values for the data points since this makes the graph look a little cluttered.  This is a personal choice.  Otherwise, it looks great.  What can you conclude from this graph?  

Graph 1 - This one is pretty though I don't understand why there are only seeds germinated on the last day for the green treatment.  I think an even better graph would be to plot % germination on the Y axis and treatment / salt conc on the X axis.  

Graph 2 - I'd plot the same kind of summary graph as above.  Although i love the term "happy seeds" you will want to define what you mean, or use a better term.  

Graph 3 - looks great.  It would be helpful if you could label the treatments under the bars on the X axis.

Now, what can you conclude from all of this wonderful data?

hope you had a great Halloween weekend.  Steve

Hi Everyone,

You have been working hard with documenting your experiments, so please make sure that your most recent journal has been uploaded to your Planting Science Files tab. The file name cannot contain your last name, and it needs to be downloaded as a pdf. Please do not attach Google docs!!

Hi Dr. Saupe, 

We have completed our data collection and are working on our graphs. I will upload all of mine. 

Cadence

Hi Planting Protagonists,

Please let your mentor know that you have completed collecting data and make sure you post your graphs and go to this Planting Science resource page . Your group needs to answer all these questions - in writing. Post your answers here on the blog so your mentor can give you feedback. 

Looks like you've gotten some cool results that support your hypothesis.  Happy Halloween

Hi Team.  sounds great.  You have lots of great data and should be able to make some good conclusions.   You have lots of analyzing you can do (see my previous note).  I'm looking forward to seeing your results.  all the best, Steve  

Also, I forgot to add that we are doing our final measurements today

-Owen

Hi Steve, we are doing our final experiments and are wrapping up the experiment most of our plants are almost dead only the 2 0g are nice and healthy plus they are standing up straight

Yours Truly - Owen+Group

Great question.  If they are about to die, it is probably time to think about ending the experiment.  Perhaps take your final measurements today and then end it for all seedlings.  Also, it would be good to take data on appearance of seedlings and number upright vs lying down as we discussed.  

Hi. Dr.Steve

Most of the plants have fallen over and we don't know if we should measure the ones lying on the soil. Those plants don't look healthy and we think they will die soon. 

Anthony and crew

Hi.  no worries.  It would have been a little harder to explain otherwise :-)  great data.  hope your final analysis is going well.  Steve

Hello Dr. Saupe,

I realized that I accidentally typed 12 instead of 10. Sorry about that.

Cadence

Hi Again.  one interesting thing I noticed is that in the 5 g salt germination treatment you had 12 seedlings but only put in 10.  How do you explain that result?  :-)  all the best, Steve

Hi Team.  It was great to meet you and Shan this morning and have an opportunity to chat.  I enjoyed it very much.

I like the journals and images you've uploaded.  Great work.  

As we discussed, other observations you might want to quantify are (a) the number/percent of plants growing upright and not wilted; (b) final weight of one seedling in each treatment.  

Possible graphs you can make are:  % seed germination (y axis) vs. salt concentration (x axis); average plant height (y axis) vs. salt concentration; average seedling weight at conclusion (y axis) vs salt conc; % plants growing upright (y axis) vs. salt concentration. 

To calculate an average:  divide number by the total then multiply by 100.  Say for seed germination, if 10 germinated and you planted 10 then percent germination equals 10/10 x 100 = 100%.

lot's of fun data to analyze.  all the best, Steve 

Thank you for showing up and coming to the meeting today. Also thank you for all the suggestions.

Sincerely, -Owen