We pollinated our plants and they look huge. They have some sea pods, and lots of flowers it’s very cool!
For our controlled we have a height of controlled 4 to 16 cm. And, on our manipulated we have 10 to 16 cm. For our controlled cell 3 has a flower and the rest don’t. And on our manipulated we had cell 2 and cell 3 with flowers and the others don’t.
Next, I think that we they will get bigger and bigger and keep growing more sea pods.
The controlled
Today we’re about three weeks into growing our plants. They’re huge and are controlled in a range of about 3-13 cm. On our controlled, cell two had a flower, cell one, cell four and cell three don’t have flowers.
The manipulated
For the manipulated, cell one had a flower, cell two had a flower, cell three and cell four were green and had no flowers. On our manipulated have a range of 3-13 cm. A lot of them had flowers on our controlled we had cell 2 has flowers and the rest don’t.
Conclusion
The manipulated had more flowers because we flooded them with water.
Today is day 5 of planting our plants. We have styrofoam quads,we put soil in the cells half way we put three fertilizer pellets, then we put more soil then made holes with our fingers and put seeds. Also we put wicks so they could reach the felt. The felt was in the water so it goes up the felt into the wick. There was also the lamp light acting like the sun. Our scientific question is What is the effect of altering water to plant growth? My hypothesis is if we add too much water then it will most likely drown and die because the plant will not be able to breathe.
The first day we saw nothing not a speck of green the next day we saw a little bit of plants they were tiny like a weed. Day four we saw them they were pretty big it was so cool to see how it grows. Day six they were getting bigger they were giant by day seven. On day seven there were no flowers yet, but on our controlled for cell one we had a height of 11 and a half cm. For cell two we had 10 and a half cm. For cell 3 we had 9cm. For cell four we had 10 cm. For our manipulated we had a height of 6 cm. For cell 2 we got 8 cm. For cell 3 we got 9 cm. For cell four we got 7 and a half.
For our manipulative we put too much water, we flooded it. This was how we changed one variable. It was fun to see it. It looked like it was dying but I couldn’t tell if it was. The leaves were falling over a little so we had to put little wood steaks in it and little plastic clips and that worked well. So that’s what happened so far.
Maglev Train day #2
Today is day 2 of Maglev trains. It was so fun. We made the train float really high it was really cool. It wasn’t balanced so we tried upside down and it worked!! We were so surprised that it worked better.
The disk magnets were not strong enough. So we tried to double them but that didn’t work. So then we realized they were not lined up so it kept going to the sides and it didn’t work. So we changed to strip magnets. We put them on either side of the track and train we learned that the magnets have to be lined up to attract or repel and they have to be north to north to repel or south to south.
Our goal for the next lesson is to hold more pebbles in the cup on the train and get as many as we can to get efficiently and safely across the track. The pebbles represent the passengers on the train.
A maglev train is a train that levitates with magnets 10 millimeters high. It uses magnets with to different poles and repels.
We used 12 disk magnets on either side. For the train we did 5 magnets on 4 sides then one in the middle.
To make it levitate we put tow strip magnets and it worked! they were on either side of the track and disk magnets for the train.
Before that we put disk magnets and it didn’t work because we didn’t have south to south or north to north. So they retracted instead of repelling so it stuck to the track.
Working together was fun I figured if one takes control you don’t do well and it was challenging but we eventually got it we were so fun.