Our class has been working on researching. I learned something very important: NOTES! Yes, notes. Why? Okay, so we each had a partner and every partnership had an animal. My animal was the alligator. We got a bunch of books about alligators, and we read them! But we didn’t just read, we took notes, lots of notes. We came up with five subtopics, alligator communication, types of alligators, alligators are good parents, alligator meals and alligator hunting. We studied important vocabulary, not copying and much more. It was hard work researching, but I managed to get all the information down. Then I put it into a Google Slide presentation, in comic book form! Here it is…
Our animal book was just practice, because something bigger was coming. My country studies book. We had to choose a country to study. I chose Egypt. We took notes and more notes from some library databases and just facts that I already knew. We took note after note after note. Then I put my information in captions, my side information into speech bubbles (for my character to say), and visual information into pictures. I spent about two weeks to complete it. I worked hard for those weeks and I put a lot of effort into it. I hope you enjoy!
Our controlled quad is doing great. Since there’s no bees in the classroom, we have been taping the plants for pollination. We observed that the petals of the flowers are falling off. Mrs. Luciano told us that it was normal. “The flower petals are falling of so it can grow seed pods” She had said. Our plant is green, bright bright green. It has a few yellow leaves, but that’s okay. Our seed pods are turning brown and it is getting ready to fall. The plant is almost at the end of its life. We are going from seed to seed. Our manipulated plant has no flowers, is dying and looks like it got zapped by lightning. There’s buds, but I don’t think their going to be flowers any time soon.
Our experiment is over, we got our conclusion. We put our manipulated plant on a diet of regular water, not dyed. But the second round of flowers just came, and there’s flowers galore. I looked today and I saw something horrifying, our manipulated plant dyed! I am so sad. But it proved our experiment. I’d like to say a thank you to Mrs. Luciano, for teaching us and helping us along, the school district, for the seeds. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity!
Our class has been studying plants. We have been doing experiments. We got two quads and put soil and seed in each hole. A quad is a box with four holes in it. We have a controlled quad and a manipulated quad. The controlled quad has everything, water, light, dirt, etc. But our manipulated quad, we have dying the water red before giving it to the plant. Our hypothesis was, “If we dye the water instead of giving the plant regular water than the plant will cease to grow and will become unhealthy because the water has chemicals in it.”
We have been dying the water strongly but we kept giving it the same amount of water, three drops. Over the week I noticed that our manipulated plant was turning red and brown. Then, one day one of the manipulated plants became crunchy and red, and it died! But our controlled plant was fine and now has flowers. Our manipulated plant was about 5 ½ cm and grew to 7 cm. But our controlled plant was 4 ½ cm and it grew to 10 ½ cm. Our manipulated plant is reddish greenish brownish and our controlled one is green and has yellow flowers.
