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.