I'm so glad to have been able to help you all with your project! Thank you for updating your conclusions! Have a great rest of the year!

Cari,

Thank you so much for helping with our project. It helped knowing we had someone along the way to help us. I appreciate your help.

Megan

Hey team! Before you go, would you update your conclusion section in the info tab? It's important for those who want to look at the amazing work you've done here even after you've gone!

Cari,

I just wanted to personally say thank you for your help and input with our germination project. Your insight really helped us in putting everything together. I hope you take away just as much as I did from this project and I wish you the best of luck on your future endeavors!

Thanks,

Alicia

Hi Cari,

Thank you so much for all of your help with our germination project! Could we have your email so that we can send you our final project powerpoint?

Thanks again, 

Sarah

Today we finished up the experiment. There was no germination in any of the seeds. Two reasons why we think there may have been no germination is too much water added and maybe because there was no rubber band around the lid to trap condensation, thus not allowing air to escape from the dishes. 

Today we watered all of our seeds. There was no germination at all in any of our seeds. Len said that just because no germination is occurring, we still have a lot of data because having no germination is still good data, we just have to make sure we do really well on interpreting and making good use of the no growth.

Today we watered all of our seeds. They were pretty dry from no water over the weekend. We decided that since they have been really dried out with only 30 ml of water, that we should add 60 ml of water to all of the dishes. One of the heating pads are at 30 degrees. One of the heating pads are at 40 degrees. The two dishes that are not on the heating pad are at 19 degrees. 

Today we checked on our seeds, no growth so far. We added more water to them because they looked pretty dry probably because of being on the heat. We are thinking the cooler of the warm temperatures will sprout first! 

Hey team! Sounds like your project set up went well! I like that you added another room temperature treatment, it's always good to have another control. Also, great addition to test two different temperatures! Which do you think will germinate first?

We decided that we should add two more dishes to have a total of 6 dishes. We now will have two dishes on one heating pad, two dishes on a heating pad with medium level heat, and then two dishes on room temperature. We added two dishes in order to test two different heat temperatures. 

Day 1 (10/30): 

Today we set up the germination project. 

- Temperature of the classroom: Range=68-70 degrees. 

- Same amount of water in each dish (3 ml spread evenly throughout each dish). 

- 4 seeds in each dish. 

- We labeled each of the seeds in the dishes: A, B, C, D.

- Dish 1: room temp

- Dish 2: room temp

- Dish 3: Heat 1

- Dish 4: Heat 2 

- We placed the room temperature dish on the counter beneath a window. 

- We placed the two heat dishes together on one heating pad. 

- We decided today that we should add one more room temperature dish in order to develop consistency and continuity throughout.

Supplies procured:
petri dishes
seeds
filter paper

Do not yet have: 2 heating pads. You will have to adjust and use just one pad if I can get it.

Today in class we discussed further what we will be doing for our project. In our project we will be using petry dishes and filament paper so we will not be able to incorporate worms. We will be putting 2 of 3 petry dishes on a heating pad and the other will be our control. We are putting 4 seeds in each dish, and we are counting the number of seeds that germinate. We plan to put the seeds at two different temperatures on the heating pads, and we are predicting that the seeds placed in a higher temperature will have a higher germination rate.

I just read your project info, I'm really interested in your project idea! It's important to understand how temperature is going to affect plant growth! Worms are important too, but a little harder to control that temperature We can talk about what worms do to the soils though if you're interested!

Hello,

I am Megan. I look forward to working with you.

Hello Cari, my name is Alicia, it's so nice to meet you! I'm looking forward to working on this project with you!

Hi Everyone! 

It's nice to meet you all. My name is Sarah. Cari, I have a long haired miniature weiner dog too! 

Our class is a sprout farming business and needs a plan to maximize seeding germination and growth. 

Our class is a biology class and meets on Monday's and Wednesday's for 3 hours from 9:05-11:50

Our seed is basil. Our project is to maximize seedling germination and growth. We were thinking about the factors of light and worms for the factors germination. We are not for sure as to what exactly we want to do as we just had our first class today to work on the project. Our ideas for methodology are as follows: soaking in chemicals such as nitrogen and phosphorous, putting colored light on it such as red, soil, water, sand, mixture. 

Hello students!

My name is Cari and I'll be your mentor to help you through your project! I recently graduated with my Master's degree in science. I'm an invertebrate ecologists, meaning I study how bugs interact with their environment! I did my research in the Hawaiian rainforest! I'd be happy to tell you more if your interested. 

Other than ecology, I love baseball, kayaking, and spending time with my wiener dog, copper!

I'm looking forward to working with you!