Matthew's Blog

Week 1

For this weeks Plant Unit May 1st to May 5th our class made plants that were controlled and manipulated. For this unit my groups manipulated one was gatorade we worked with partners my partners are AN, SM, and PR.

For my manipulated one the first day we thought it wouldn’t grow but then SM researched it and he said it won’t grow because of the chemicals in it. He said it will only grow with radishes or something else. We made a hypothesis. My hypothesis was I thought it would grow slower. We saw something and thought it grew but it did not. We had logs and for the first two days it did not grow. Over the weekend when we came back to school it had one leaf we were so excited. Our manipulated plant was the only one that grew. I wonder why he researched and said it can only grow with radishes, is the fact fake? The other people in our class did soapy water, orange juice, coffee grinds, and kinetic sand as the manipulated variable. Also we made a controlled one and on the first week it had grown a lot it was like 1 cm on the the first 4 days, we logged it, and drew a picture. I really wanted to see what plant it was going to be, I thought it would be a flower or a small plant but it turned out pretty big.

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