Category: 3rd Grade

No Sunlight

My group’s no sunlight lima beans are growing, but they’re not healthy. Also, they smell really gross. Only one of the seeds are growing. The other two don’t even have roots! We’ve anyway’s experienced a no sunlight plant not growing with the Wisconsin fast flowers. The no sunlight flower was growing but it wasn’t healthy at all. It had a white stem, and yellow leaves. And it’s the same thing with the no sunlight lima beans. It has a white stem, and half of the bean is a brownish yellowish color.  

No Air

The no air lima bean is growing really good. The weird thing is a plant needs water, air, and sunlight to make sugar, which all plants need. But on the other hand, the bean has roots, a stem, and it’s starting to grow leaves! Maybe a lima bean has different adaptations then a regular and healthy plant, like a flower. Maybe it just needs water and sunlight to make sugar. Or maybe it doesn’t need sugar to be healthy, it may just need water.

Sunlight

Surprisingly, the no air is better than the sunlight. All the sunlight has is a stem and roots. Again, the sunlight has one growing.

How our plant changed

In class, we learned about pollination for our science unit about plants. My group’s plant changed a lot since we pollinated it. How you might ask! Well, we pollinated it, so, the pistil made seeds, so the flowers that made the seeds die, because there is no use for it.  So the seeds grew up, and the life cycle of a flower restarts. If you still don’t understand this, then read this. Pollinating is when wind, water, or animals, such as a bee, carry pollen from the stamen of one flower to another flower. When the animal lands on the flower, it always leaves enough pollen on the pistil (female part of a flower) to make seeds.

Adjectives for my group’s plant

The color of our plant is a deep green. The weird thing is, the leaves are dying. There all crumbly and stuff. It’s either because we didn’t water it enough, or it’s dying because it’s making new leaves. But some of them are nice and healthy. Our plant doesn’t have buds, but like 5 weeks ago, it did have some buds. By some, I mean a lot. Again , we don’t have flowers because it died to make new flowers. The tallest pod in our quad is in cell 3. I think the pod has 3 seeds.

What will happen next

What I think will happen next, is we will pollinate again, and the new flowers will make new seeds and the life cycle will continue.

The first week of plants was awesome! We got to plant. Our teacher won’t tell us the plant we’re planting. There are these styrofoam cubes called quads, with little square shaped holes in it called cells, and that’s where we plant our plants. There are two plants we planted, manipulated, and controlled. Are manipulated object is gatorade instead of water. The good thing is that, my hypothesis is true! My hypothesis is, if we water the plant gatorade for 7 weeks, it’ll grow because plants need sugar to grow, and gatorade has sugar. Also, if you’re wondering how the plant gets gatorade over the weekend, there’s a little vial under the quad, and the vial has gatorade in it, and there’s this little blue thing called a wick, which sucks up the gatorade into the plant. Our group’s plant gets sunlight from a metal rectangle that has LED lights under it. And then under the LED lights, we put our plants.

The second week of plants was interesting! Everyone’s group has a controlled, and manipulated plant. 

Controlled

My groups controlled plant is pretty tall! It has a lot of leaves on the stem. For this week, the measurements are great. Cell one is 2 cm. Cell 2 is 1 cm. Cell 3 is 5 cm, and cell 4 is 1 cm. The color of all the plants in the quad, is a vine green. Some of the plants are dying, because we didn’t water the plants enough gatorade. So then, we watered it more gatorade, and the plant kinda came back to life. The direction the plant is growing is straight. In the 17th of May, cell 3 lost some leaves. I think it did because there was not enough gatorade.

Manipulated

My groups manipulated plant is the only manipulated plant growing! It’s probably because of the sugar in the gatorade, and the plant needs sugar to grow, so it’s growing. But it’s starting to die, so again we watered it more with gatorade. The height isn’t that bad. Cell 1 is 1 cm. Cell 2 is 1 cm. Cell 3 is 0 cm. Cell 4 is 1 cm. For some reason, in cell three, there’s something in it. My group thinks it’s mold. I still don’t understand why there’s mold in cell three, because mold is caused by water. The color of the plant is a green that doesn’t look like it should be green. The direction the plant is growing is mostly on the left.

No Sunlight
 The no sunlight plant looks so unexpected. It’s all yellow and long. It’s probably because, plants make food out of sunlight, and the poor plant has been in a cabinet for a long time, and there’s no sunlight in the cabinet, so it can’t make food.

In the moon unit I learned a lot about the moon. For example, me and my class learned about the phases of the moon. We also did some activities with our Science teacher Mrs. Kiley. Some other facts I learned were, some moon phases are Waxing gibbous, Waxing quarter, Waning gibbous, and more! It takes 1 year for the moon to fully rotate around the earth. Some myths say that the moon is made out of cheese, but it’s not. The moon is made of space rocks and comets. I really loved the moon unit but sadly, it has to end. But on the bright side, there’s lots of other science we could learn!