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March 30, 2009 | 12:23 AM |
PS team
Good bye Thank you everyone who participated in this inquiry! We hope you are going away with some new insights about how science works, and confidence that you can take on new scientific challenges. There are a lot of fascinating research questions---just waiting for young investigators to join in the fun. Best wishes for the remainder of your school year! Jennifer |
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March 27, 2009 | 5:55 AM |
Rainer W Bussmann
(Scientist/Mentor)
Comments Hi all, Thanks for all these nice comments! Glad that I could help a little. Here's a little article that describes what else we do: http://www.stlbeacon.org/science/mobot_ethnobotany_program_saves_plants_improves_lives You might have to cut and paste. Greetings, Rainer |
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March 27, 2009 | 1:22 AM |
CuriousCamille
(Team Member)
Thank You!!! :] Our group is so thankful that you were our mentor. We learned a lot from you and made our project better with your help and advice. We hope you have fun learning more about plants as you travel the world. Someday, we hope to read about you as a famous scientist. :] ~ Camille |
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March 27, 2009 | 1:09 AM |
beautifulbriana
(Team Member)
marvelous mentor! Thank you Mr. Rainer for mentoring us through our lab. I promise a picture is coming later today. (Sorry for the delay) But you couldn't of done a better job walking us through this. Amazingly, this is our first lab that we were right with our hypothesis. This is all thanks to you. I hope you have a wonderful time traveling the world, and best of luck! -Briana |
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March 27, 2009 | 12:53 AM |
preciouspatricia
(Team Member)
Last comment:( Thank you, Mr. Rainer for analyzing and commenting on our project. An answer to your question, apparently yes, the plant 4 under artificial light did die since it stopped growing and no stem was found after the third day. Anyways, thank you thank you for making this experience a "cool" one :). Hope that you can have fun traveling aroung the world and observing how people use plants for any use. Hopefully you can be the first to find a cure for cancer, AIDS, and other non curable diseases through plants. Patricia :) |
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March 27, 2009 | 12:45 AM |
loonyluyn
(Team Member)
P.S. Have fun traveling around the world :] |
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March 27, 2009 | 12:45 AM |
loonyluyn
(Team Member)
Dr. Bussmann Thank you for helping us through our project and giving us tips on what and how to do everything. We highly appreciate your hospitality :] -Luyn |
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March 27, 2009 | 12:45 AM |
loonyluyn
(Team Member)
Dr. Bussmann Thank you for helping us through our project and giving us tips on what and how to do everything. We highly appreciate your hospitality :] -Luyn |
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March 27, 2009 | 12:44 AM |
loonyluyn
(Team Member)
Dr. Bussmann Thank you for helping us through our project and giving us tips on what and how to do everything. We highly appreciate your hospitality :] -Luyn |
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March 26, 2009 | 10:32 PM |
Rainer W Bussmann
(Scientist/Mentor)
Conclusions Hi all, sounds like your experiment worked very well. The outcome that the seeds under artificial light germinated faster is really interesting, and also your observation that, once germinated, the plants grew equally fast. Did the plant 4 under artificial light die? Congrats to a nice experiment. Rainer |
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March 25, 2009 | 8:54 AM |
preciouspatricia
(Team Member)
Conlcusion After observing our experiment over a period of fourteen days, we came to the conlcusion that our hypothesis was correct. We predicted that a batch of ten sunflower seeds under artificial light would germinate as well or even better than a batch of sunflower seeds placed under regular sunlight. After a period of seven days, we observed that most seeds under each batch of regular sunlight and artificial light reached about the same height. We did notice, however, that most of the sunflower seeds placed under artificial light started to germinate faster by the third day and later on the sunflower seeds that were placed under regular sunlight started to catch on pretty quick. Thus, it does not matter under what kind of light you place plants because either they are going to sprout and grow. However, seeds that are grown by using artificial light might germinate faster. This conlcusion made our experiment a success. |
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March 25, 2009 | 1:06 AM |
loonyluyn
(Team Member)
That's good that you're enjoying life, and working with us :) Alright, we will try to find a picture and post it up as soon as possible. |
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March 17, 2009 | 10:07 PM |
Rainer W Bussmann
(Scientist/Mentor)
Seed separation Hi, Yes, I'm traveling a lot (too much I guess). As for the seed separation - I'm not exactly sure how this looks like. Could you post a picture? |
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March 17, 2009 | 1:15 AM |
beautifulbriana
(Team Member)
I hope you had a great time out of the Americas. We had more progression with our seeds, but we have a question. On both the artificial and regular sunlight batches, we had some of the seeds separating from the actual green plant and we're not sure if this is unusual or not. Are we doing something wrong, or is this suppost to happen to them when they get too big? |
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March 17, 2009 | 1:13 AM |
CuriousCamille
(Team Member)
Europe? I thought you were in India... Have you been traveling more? |
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March 16, 2009 | 11:23 PM |
Rainer W Bussmann
(Scientist/Mentor)
progress Hi all, just got back from Europe. It sounds as if your project makes very nice progress. Be sure to make a chart that shows how many germinate every day, and how the growth progress is. The cloudiness should not matter too much - the light that plants need to germinate should come through in any case. Greetings, Rainer |
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March 16, 2009 | 1:21 AM |
McCann16
(Student, TJMC - WSHS_S09_W34 · -1)
Project What are u doing for the varibles... |
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March 16, 2009 | 1:16 AM |
beautifulbriana
(Team Member)
update. just an update on whats happening. As of day 6, we have had plants sprout up to 30 mm in just 3 days for both sunlight and artificial lighing. But when observing, plants are germinating faster in artificial lighing. But also it was rainy all week so not a lot of sunlight was out and about. This affects germination within real sunlight which is why our hypothesis states that seeds will germinate faster in artificial light. Also everyday we are putting more water into the ziplock bags to just wet the coffee filter enough for germination. Both the seeds are looking good, germination is all go. I will continure to post updates daily. (I'm going to try daily.) hope to see from yuo soon. -briana |
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March 14, 2009 | 8:35 AM |
preciouspatricia
(Team Member)
some answers to some of your questions We are running only one repetition per seed batch. Thanks for your questions. Sorry for the delay. On Friday the 13th we noticed that 9/10 sunflower seeds in the artificial light batch had sprouted stems and only 1/10 sunflower seeds in the regular sunlight had sprouted stems. |
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March 14, 2009 | 5:20 AM |
thenicbot5000
(Student, TAAN - WSHS_S09_W35 · -1)
Hey guys!! |
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March 9, 2009 | 5:48 AM |
Rainer W Bussmann
(Scientist/Mentor)
Research design Hi all, Great that you get your design started. I'd suggest to really keep all the other variables 9soil amount and type, amount of water etc. etc. constant, and really focus on the light. How many repetitions per seed batch (regular light/artificial light) are you going to run? How are you making sure that the sunlight batch gets only sunlight, and the artificial batch only artificial light? How long are the seeds going to be exposed to light? It would be good to have both groups exposed to the same light duration in hours. The best way would be to have the artificial group in a dark space where a timed light source would come on for a specific time. Greetings, Rainer |
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March 9, 2009 | 3:05 AM |
Surfergodess101
(Student, Experimental Craze - WSHS_S09_W39 · -1)
props on pink Did yall plan tht or wht? |
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March 9, 2009 | 1:27 AM |
beautifulbriana
(Team Member)
Hello again, sorry about the delayed responding, we have more information coming up that will go into detail about what we are doing. Look for the Experimental Design Matrix which will be uploaded, anfter you look at that feel free to ask, say, or make any suggestions. thanks! have fun in india! -Briana ♥ |
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March 9, 2009 | 1:10 AM |
CuriousCamille
(Team Member)
Hola! :] I am sorry my introduction is coming so late. This is because I was not in class the day we started this project. I just want to tell you all a little about myself ... My name is Camille, and I am also a member of this team. I love biology class, mostly because Ms. Forsyth makes it so fun. I try to do as well as I can in school, and so far, I have straight A's. I also enjoy a variety of extracurricular activities, including playing the flute in band, winter guard, academic team, and tennis. I love music. I listen to it no matter what mood I'm in and I'm always trying to look for something new to listen to. When I graduate from high school, I would like to attend either New York University in Manhattan or Stanford University in California. I have a variety of careers in mind that I am interested in following, including news journalism, fashion journalism, pediatrics, and psychiatry. I look forward to working with you and getting insightful input. ~Camille :] |
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March 9, 2009 | 12:52 AM |
loonyluyn
(Team Member)
Hello :D Thank you, thanks to have you as our Scientist/Mentor. That is great, I've always wanted to go to India, it looks like quite the experience over there :] But that is great how you are in India right now researching plants. :] Luyn |
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March 4, 2009 | 9:50 PM |
Rainer W Bussmann
(Scientist/Mentor)
Sunflowers Hi all, Great to have you as a team! Sorry to be a liittle slow in answering - I am actually in India right now, and the internet was down the last day becasue we had a power outage (which is pretty common here). I'm traveling quite a bit as botanist, and have been over here the last two weeks, looking at how people in various places in India use plants. Sounds as if you're starting to set up a good experiment! Do you already have a layout for the design? What kind of artificial sunlight will you be using? I think this will be pretty interesting, and you might have some surprising results. Greetings, Rainer |
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March 2, 2009 | 8:42 AM |
PS team
Welcome Chicks with Brains I am happy to welcome you to this community of plant researchers. It looks like you already have an interesting idea for a Research Question. Your scientist mentor, Rainer Bussmann from Missouri Botanical Garden, will help you focus your ideas as you develop and refine your research question and experimental design. Best wishes as you embark on this scientific journey. We are all pleased to share this experience with you. Have fun! Jennifer Potratz and the PlantingScience team |
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March 2, 2009 | 1:17 AM |
preciouspatricia
(Team Member)
Bonjour! Hello my name is Patricia. I am currently attending Woodstock High School in Woodstock, Ga. I am fluent in two languages..... English and Spanish. As you can see from the subject, Iam learning French to become more knowledgeable in more than two languages. I am very estatic y muy contenta to have a brilliant scientist guide my teammates and I through our astute lab that deals with sunflowers. Patricia!!!:0 |
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March 2, 2009 | 1:09 AM |
loonyluyn
(Team Member)
Chau :] My name is Luyn(pronounciation: Lyn) Biology is the best, especially the way Ms. Forsyth teaches it. I am a freshman, exploring my world at Woodstock High School, and through the next few years, I really want to do soccer, track, swim, and cross-country. My team members are Briana, Patricia, and Camille which is not here right now. I am a very pertinent person. It takes a lot to make me perilous. I love dogs, one of my favorite breed(s) are: German Shepherds and Huskies :] I am bilangual and working on my third language. I would say that music is the focus of peace at heart. Without it, my life would be a veil. My teammates are very adroit and I am honored to be working with them in this project and confiding of observing sunflower seeds burgeon. I would have to say that my biggest target in life is to become an Aerospace Engineer. For now, I'm in an NJROTC program at my school and it is great :D I have this enigma of being pigeon-toed. When I walk, I also sway or waddle, and I do not inknowledge if it is because of my pigeon-toed effect, but I love it. It makes me who I am today, and who I am today is a girl, working her way up to her dreams to become and Aerospace Engineer and my name is Luyn, nice to meet you (: |
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March 2, 2009 | 1:08 AM |
beautifulbriana
(Team Member)
Nice to meet you Hello, my name is Briana. I'm a freshman at Woodstock High School and highly elated to have a scientist to assist us in performance of a lab via the internet. I am a garrulous individual so don't be confounded if I come to you with a lot of questions. My team mates are as well all girls, so we have the team name, Chicks with Brains. We are extremely girly as well as smart and very unhesitant to jump into labs. We love to matriculate what will work in labs and what won't. Thanks for encompassing us while we perform our experiment, this will be a tremendous help to us. Hope to hear from you soon, don't be a stranger! -Briana ♥ |
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