Overall

Lima beans are so fun to learn about. We’ve been doing observations with the lima beans. Did you know that seeds can grow without soil?  The seeds look different because of the color and the size. Before the seed was just a regular seed but now the embryo and the food storage is popping out, it’s like a little plant.    

 

No Air

My groups no air is good. All of the three lima beans are bundled up together. Two of them slipped out of it’s seed coat. Most of them turned green.

 

Sunlight

My groups sunlight is great. One of the lima beans has a bunch of roots and their roots are so thin. When my group took it out of the bag it was halo.

 

No sunlight

The no sunlight is not the best. It turned brown because it rotted. 

 

   

 

 

 

Seed Pods

Learning about the seed pods was an interesting experience. I learned that you have to pollinate a flower to have a seed pod and I also learned that seed pods need to be watered and put under a light to grow. My seed pod turned out to be very tall. There are about four pods in each square. I really enjoyed working with my group.

 

 

Pollination

Pollinating was fun to do with my group. I learned that insects could suck pollen grains in the flowers then switch to another flower to pollinate. I also learned that  honeybees do more pollination than any other insect, which includes ants, beetles, and butterflies.

 

 

Week 2 plant unit

By Isabella

 

My plant is the plant watered by orange juice instead of water. The controlled is very healthy and it’s green. I think it’s going to turn out more beautiful. There is a little yellow flower. The tallest plant is 9 inches. All of them have at least one bloomed flower.

My manipulated plant has not grown. The orange juice turned the soil brown. It smells bad. It doesn’t look very healthy. There’s no plant.

The no sunlight plant is not healthy, but it is growing a little bit. The stem is white because you need sunlight for the stem to turn green. Some people say that the sun is the only thing that could make the stem green, but I think it’s the light of the sun. The no sunlight has a really little yellow flower on the tip of the top.

I think the manipulated didn’t grow because of the sugar in the orange juice. I think the sugar of the orange juice rotted the seed before it grew, that’s why it smells so bad. I think the controlled grew because of the properties the water has to make the plants grow.

This unit has been a very good experience overall.     

 

   

 

Week 1 Plant Unit

 

 

The experience of the plant unit was interesting. The controlled is pretty tall. The stem is green. Each of the plants have about three leaves. Each day the controlled grows about 4 inches. The controlled smells like oranges because of the orange juice.

 

In my opinion the manipulated smells like moldy cheese. The manipulated is not growing. There’s not even a little stem.

 

 

 

   

In the moon unit I learned that the holes in the moon are from the asteroids that hit the moon. The first day of the moon unit the moon was shining so bright it was gorgeous. After that I kept looking at the moon. Then I started to notice the moon change. The moon changed by the size and the brightness. A few days later I learned about phases of the moon. Now you know about my  experience with the moon unit.