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plant observations #3

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For my controlled plant after we pollinated it, flowers actually started blooming! But what we did to pollinate was to take our finger Dab it on the flower and then dab our finger on the other flower and just go back and forth dabing. The height is 5 inches! Now the stem is purpleish green. The flower is yellow. For some reason there is only 5 leaves. And there is 11 pods.

The manipulated plant is dead.

I think the control will stay at 5 in. and however it is right now because it’s been like that for a while.

this my manipulated before we threw it out.

this is my controlled

 

Plant observations #2

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From the past two weeks for the controlled,the plants were about two to three inches high. The amount of leaves was some crazy amount like 36! We might not be exact but somewhere near there. It’s hard to count leaves. There was also a stem turning purple. But now the controlled is three inches exact! There was 40 leaves. this was a big improvement. Now the stem is fully purple. The direction the plant is going is towards the sunlight. I think why that is happening because the plant wants natural light other than artificial light.the change since the start was huge for the controlled. It started out really slow and it was three  fourths for ever.

I keep thinking why the controlled plant stem is purple.

The last two weeks for the manipulated not much happened. The plant is getting bigger and smaller. The stem was still very purple. It’s super strange why that is happening. The manipulated’s height is one half of an inch or one quarter of an inch. The direction is just sitting straight up but it looks a little dead. the color is purple ish green. The change since start is not a big gap, the plant obviously not that big. I wonder why the plant is growing and then shrinking. I wonder if it’s the sugar water.    

This is my manipulated.

This is my controlled plant.

Science Observations #1

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In class we have been doing plants! We got to choose groups. My group is two girls and two boys. Our experiment is instead of water we did sugar water. My question is will sugar water grow more leaves on the plant than regular water? My hypothesis is that the sugar water will grow more leaves. We have a manipulated and controlled plant. In my controlled it got light, water, seeds, fertilizer, and soil. For my manipulated I just changed the water.

 

In the first week nothing happened for the manipulated but for the controlled there was a little seedling coming out. But now the manipulated has a purple stem. We do not know why. For the controlled there is 24 leaves. The color for the manipulated is purple and green. The size for the controlled is 2/4 of an inch high. The Manipulated was much smaller than the controlled. The Amount of leaves on the controlled is 24 and the leaves on the manipulated has 4 leaves. Also the controlled is about 2 times taller than the manipulated. The purple stem is really bothering me. I keep thinking, Why is that? These are pictures of my groups plants on Monday, May 8 2017. 

 

 

 

This is a picture of my controlled.

This is the manipulated.

Maglev Reflection/ Day 1

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We have been learning about Maglev trains. We worked in groups. My group had a hard time figuring out witch idea we should try first. It was helpful to be in a group because there was more ideas to go around. We did two ideas each, then we eliminated one from each of ours. Then we decided what would work best. We used mine and tweaked it a little but we failed. The idea that failed was ring magnets on one side and strip on the other.I don’t  exactly know what was wrong.

 

Maglev Day two

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On day two my group tried another idea. I don’t really remember what the track was, but I do know what the train was. It was strip magnets and disk magnets. but then it was all strip, same with the track.(manila folder.) And It worked!!!! Here is a picture of us in action.                                                                                               

My Expert Book Refection

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HAIL TO THE VICTOR! This is a line from a famous chant. Well  i’m going to tell you, Michigan. I wrote about one specific person because he is an Amazing player- Jabrill Peppers. But first I was going to do five great football players. They were

  • Jim Harbaugh
  • Jake butt
  • wilton Speight
  • taco Charlton
  • Charles Woodson

you can see Charles Woodson on the Saturday game day show. Then Mrs. Mangan told me that it was a lot, So I did Jabrill Peppers. hope you enjoy my book.