whssweetspring2021 project 9
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Joined 22 Feb 2021
Project by group whssweetspring2021
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| Explore | the important steps to getting food from farm to table. We learned that agronomy is the science of soil management and crop production. Plants need nutrients, water, and sunlight to grow. Also, we learned that we need to know what the soil type is when planting before applying fertilizers. We... |
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| Research Question | what are the important steps from getting food from farm to table? which fertilizer gives the best results for a quicker plant growth |
| Predictions | raise healthy livestock. We believe that organic fertilizer (organic or inorganic) will give the best results for a faster plant growth and will also keep it healthy because of the fact that it has agricultural waste, livestock manure, and municipal sludge. |
| Experimental Design | raise healthy livetsock |
| Conclusion | raise healthy livestock and crops for farm to table. In conclusion, our prediction was right about organic fertilizer (organic or inorganic) giving the best results for a faster plant growth and keeping it healthy because of the fact that it has agricultural waste, livestock manure, and... |
| About this Project |
This team was extremely passionate about their project and learning. They thought about the impacts of their project beyond PlantingScience. |
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It was great working with you on your project. I hope you had fun exploring plants and agronomy! All the best for the rest of your school year :)
Thank you mentors for taking the time to work with us in this experiment.
You are so welcome!
Lydia
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The PlantingScience Team
In today's class, our teacher conducted an experiment, where we saw what type of soil (clay or soil) would filter the most. We made a prediction and said that clay has bigger particles than soil and so it will filter out most of the dye from the water. The color sticks more to one type of soil (clay) than the other (soil) because of the fact that clay has bigger particles. This experiment reflects what happens in agriculture because you will know your soil better. An experiment we would like to test would be which fertilizer gives the best results for a quicker plant growth.
Nutrients and water move through soil by this process called diffusion. During this process, roots grow throughout the profile and use up nutrients directly around the root system and the root hairs. As the concentration of nutrients around the root system drops, nutrients from higher concentrated areas move toward low concentration areas and toward the roots.
Hi team,
That sounds like an interesting experiment you did in class. I wonder, though, about the difference in particles between sand and clay. Have a look again at which is bigger.
I like your idea of looking at fertilizer - that is a very practical question. Besides the fertilizer you use, what else might influence which fertilizer is best in a particular field?
Jennifer
Hi Brenda, this experiment looks really interesting to me. I assume you were talking about clay and sandy soil. Clay has a smaller particle size than other types of soils. Since they have smaller in size, they occupied more space (higher surface area), which makes them adsorb more fertilizers/die. As you said, we need to know the type of soil before we applied fertilizer in our agricultural field.
Hi Jennifer,
Sorry for answering your follow up question barely right now. Other factors that may influence which fertilizer is best in a particular field would be soil type, even distribution, caking and clumping and micronutrient/macronutrient segregation.
Also, clay has a smaller particles than other types of soils.
Hi team,
I like your logo :) It's good to see that you've updated your info. Your research question is an important one - we definitely need to get food from farm to table, but it's also really, really big. When we're learning by reading a book or taking a class, we can learn a lot of different things at once, so you can ask big questions. But when we're running an experiment, we have to do only a few small things at a time, so we can build up new knowledge carefully. Ultimately, we answer the big questions by asking lots of small ones.
Here's an example of the difference I mean. A big question would be, do people like candy? This is hard to answer because there are lots of different kinds of candy and types of people, and "like" and "don't like" are hard to measure. A good specific question for an experiment might be, "do high school students like skittles or M&Ms better?". That is a question you could test by offering students a choice and seeing which ones they choose.
So, for you to be able to do a project or experiment, you need to make your question a lot smaller. What is one small, specific thing about raising healthy crops that you would like to know more about and that we could test with an experiment?