Thank you to the planting science for all your help.  Thank you Hannah Berry for being our mentor.  This was our first year participating.  We will be back again next year knowing more what to expect.  

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.

After the end of the session, we will be updating the platform and archiving groups and projects, after which time new updates/posts will not be able to be added to projects or groups. Please come back and visit the PlantingScience Project Gallery anytime to view this project in the future. You can search the Gallery by keyword, team name, topic, or school name.

Good bye for now.
Warm regards,
The PlantingScience team

Looks like you are in the final stages of your projects.
Just as a reminder, the end of this session will be 11/29/2019. It’s great to see that teams from your school are wrapping up. Enjoy the final stages of your project, and feel free to post any final comments or questions you have for your mentors.

Hi Team,

How is your data analysis going? How are you planning on analyzing your data if you have not done so already?

Hi Team,

Wow you guys are fast! Could you give me a little more detail about what you saw in your experiment? How are you planning on analyzing and presenting your data?

We have now stopped collecting our data we are going to make the graph soon. And update the page to let you know our conclusion.

Hi Team!

Your plants look nice. Could you give me an update on how things are going?

Hi Team,

Your plants and data sheet look really nice! Are you already ending your experiment or continuing collecting data still?

We have also adjusted our light timers to correspond with the sunlight when it comes up and sets. We are creating the graph now to record our data.

Day 2: October 21st

Sunlight: 

• Radish- 1.2, 6.4, 6.5 = 9.7

• Peas- 12.5, 6.2 = 15.6

• Nasturtium- not germinated

Red Light:

• Radish- 13, 11.5, 12, 5 = 37.75

• Peas- 26.5, 23 = 38

• Nasturtium- 15.5, 13 = 22

Blue Light:

• Radish- 10.7, 8.9 = 15.15

• Peas- 14.4, 15 = 21.9

• Nasturtium- 2.6, 2.6 = 3.9

  • All of the seeds now germinated except the nasturtiums with the sunlight. Now overall the peas are the tallest in each of the light. Most of the plants were tallest in the red light. The blue and red light with the plant's soil looked healthy and still a little damp, but when we looked at the ones with the sunlight the soil was completely dried up. 

  • These end measurements are the overall average.

Hi Team,

I am a little confused about the numbers you sent me. I think they may be averages? Do you guys have a table you are using to collect your information? This may be the best way to share your data day-to-day. Looks like your plants are off to a good start!

Day 1:

Sunlight: 3.2cm

• Radish- 1.3,3.5,3=2.6cm

• Peas-.6cm

• Nasturtium-not germinated

Red Light: 5.15

• Radish-5.1, 4, 4.5=4.5cm

• Peas-.6,.7=0.65cm

• Nasturtium- not germinated

Blue Light: 2.55

• Radish-2.5, .5=1.5cm

• Peas-.6, 1.5=1.05 cm

• Nasturtium- not germinated

Hey Team!

Could you tell me a little about the photos you uploaded?

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Hi team!

I like your new experiment and looks like you guys have thought of a lot of components of the design. How long will your lights be on and will they be on a timer so they get some light over the weekend? What colors of light are you testing? Looks like you guys are doing sunlight and red but are there others too? Looking forward to your results!

Hi Hannah, We decided to change our project I was wondering if you could look it over and share any advice.

Hi Team!

Thanks for providing more information about your experimental design. How long do you think your experiment will take to see results? I like the idea of using multiple types of seeds to test your hypothesis!

Hi team!

I noticed you have filled in info for your research question and predictions and are off to a good start. Could you describe your experimental design in a little more detail, please? What directions will you be testing? How many seeds per direction? How often will you be watering your seeds and what will you be planting them in? All of these things are important for experimental design and something I think about for my own experiments. I really like your research question!

Hi Hannah,

This is Ms Nice.  To give you a little background on the questions they were asking you, we started the Corn Competition activity.  Most of their corn grew very fast and then turned brown and wilted.  They were planted in the brown seed starter containers and kept by the windows in the classroom for most of them.  I had them take a question about that competition to help them introduce themselves to you.

Today we will be going through the Student Guide set up steps and each group will be trying to narrow questions about seed germination down to 1 testable question for their projects.  Our project is on the Wonder of seeds.

Hi, I'm Julian, I was wondering how the steam's of seeds breakthrough when the seed is hard? 

What can of light, such as artificial or real sunlight, would be best for a plant that is just getting started. Like it started roots as well as have leaves just a few inches tall.

HI TEAM. My name is Maddie. I just joined Botany class this semester and I'm ready to learn more about the world I've been living in the past 16 years of my life.

Hi team! My name is Hannah and I will be your scientist mentor for this session! I'm a 5th year PhD student at Colorado State University studying plant development and defense. In my free time, I enjoy climbing, hiking, drawing, and pottery. I've been a mentor on planting science fo about 4 years and really love seeing the experiments you guys develop. I'm looking forward to working with you guys this semester!

Welcome to your PlantingScience project page!

Welcome to this community of plant researchers. As your team plans and conducts your own research project, you will be mentored by a scientist. The mentor's role is to encourage and guide you through the process of scientific discovery. The more you share your ideas and research information online, the more your mentor can help. You can also find out more about your mentor. What is their research about? Why did they go into science? What do they like to do when they are not working?

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• Plant Investigation Toolkit

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