Monthly Archives: June 2018

Blog Post #4 For Plants Post

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This is plant post #4. The plants grew tremendously through all the weeks. Basically 20 days! Seed pods are seeds inside a pod. Seed pods are kind of moon shaped but thinner. They have little bumps on them and that means there are seeds inside the seed pods.

 

The life cycle is first you need pollinate them with the flowers pollen. Then the seed pods starts to grow. You have to wait about a week for them to grow not big but not small. After the pod starts to grow it gets bigger and bigger.

 

Here is the process to grow seed pods with Wisconsin Fast Plants:

  1. Plant the Wisconsin Fast plant seed.
  2. Put it under sunlight or a lamp for the sunlight.
  3. Water it everyday to make it grow taller.
  4. Record the data (Optional)
  5. Manipulate (Optional)
  6. When there are flowers pollinate them.
  7. Pick off the seed pods.
  8. Open them.
  9. Repeat the process over again.

 

Yesterday we took the seed pods off our plants. Then we put them under a lamp to dry them out. The next day we opened our seed pods and we had a pretty big one that had 3-4 seeds!  Then we taped them onto index cards and we get to plant them again, if we want to.

Here are our plants.

CU Blog Post Comic Book – Australia

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We went to the library for our topic Australia. We also went to the Heathcote library database page. We mostly used Fact Site (Fact Site123) and WorldBook. We took 2 -3 days of researching. We had found a lot of information from the databases and books. Some information we knew already. The 5 Cultural Universals are Politics, Social Aspects, Economics, Beliefs, and Cultural Arts. Plus one that isn’t really a Cultural Universals, Basic facts. The name of our book is “All of Australia”. We thought of that name and we thought it was creative. My favorite part of the project was making our characters. I think doing that was really fun. I used tips and tricks to make my character. I really liked the bows in my hairs. I also didn’t add parts of me but I still think I am cute. I found challenging finding the Rugby and Cricket information. Also for me it was hard researching. I also thought what was challenging is finding twice as much information as some other people that worked solo, because my partner and I both had to have information in our speech bubble.

Blog Post #3 Plants Post

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We pollinated the plant on Wednesday last week. We pollinated it about 5 times already.  When we pollinated the plant did nothing but a few days later… There were seed pods!!! The change of the plant wasn’t very big but it was exciting. The only change was the seed pods but we have 3 of them! When our teacher pointed it out we were super duper excited! Awesome right? One of them is big now. Not as huge as an actual seed pod but big.

 

The biggest manipulated this week was cell 1, 17 cm. The smallest manipulated is cell 10 cm. They look not so big, but when you measure it it is real big it would be probably the same height as a colored pencil. The colors of the plant are yellow for the flower and green for the stem and leaves. Most flowers are dead I don’t really know why but it started a few weeks ago. We are pretty sad about that.

 

Next week I predict that we will have a huge seed pod! Hopefully bigger then our gardens. I think more plants are going to die this week, especially our manipulated because it’s only getting a drop of water a day. Next I think more flowers are going to bud too and more seed pods.

Blog Post #1 Plants Post

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Blog Post #1 Plants Post

 

We started a plant unit a few weeks ago… When we started we had to put the wicks in the styrofoam quads to make sure that our plants don’t die during the weekend.  First, then we put in a quarter of soil in each cell, after we put in the fertilizer which helps it grow and then covered it with soil and put in the seeds and covered those with soil again. We manipulated the water into 1 drop only. My question is what if we only use 1 drop of water on our manipulated plant?  My hypothesis is If I only use a drop of water on my manipulated plant then the plant won’t be as tall because it won’t have enough water.

 

The color of most of our plants are green. We have many buds for the last 2 weeks. On May 17th the tallest plant was 3 cm. The smallest plant was 1 cm. At first ours was the tallest out of our class, I was really proud about that. Today, June 4th our tallest was cell 1 manipulated, 15 ½ cm!! It grew so much over the weeks. The smallest was cell 2 controlled, 7 ½ cm. It grew a lot too. Cell 1 manipulated grew 13 ½ cm over the weeks altogether!! Cell 1 controlled grew 8 cm altogether! I think that over the time that we measured the plants they grew so much! I am so happy we did this science project.

This is our group observing our plants.