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April 22, 2011 | 1:26 PM |
Dr. Catrina Adams
Farewell and Best Wishes As this research project is now in the final stages of wrapping-up, we wish to thank everyone who participated in this inquiry; the students, mentors, teachers and others behind the scenes. We appreciate all of your efforts and contributions to this online learning community. Scientific exploration is a process of discovery that can be fun! There are many unanswered questions about plants just waiting for new scientists to consider, investigate, and share. Please come back and visit the PlantingScience Research Gallery Archive anytime to view this project in the future. You can search the Archive by key word, team name, topic, or school name. Good bye for now. Warm regards, The PlantingScience team |
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April 11, 2011 | 10:47 AM |
Dr. Catrina Adams
Looks like you are in the final stages of your projects It’s great to see that teams from your school are wrapping up and posting conclusions. Enjoy the final stages of your project, and feel free to post any final comments or questions you have for your mentors. |
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March 30, 2011 | 6:32 PM |
Dr. Devi Annamalai
(Scientist/Mentor)
Hi Hi thornberries, Your experimental design is bit unclear to me. Please help me understand the whole process. As your teacher suggested already, I would just reiterate her points that explain in your notes the details as if somebody else sitting in some other geographical location has to perform the same experiment. For example: 1) When you say that "placing three labelled bags of seeds"; did you mean that seeds were put in bags containing soil or with just enough water for them to sprout. 2) In your experimental design you mentioned about "Proper location"; I understand that but when we jot down the experimental records every piece of information should make sense even when its read separately. Details of every step is extremely important in experiments like these. Good job so far....Keep brainstorming n working.... :) Devi |
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March 15, 2011 | 5:30 PM |
Ms. L
(Teacher)
Experimental design & research conclusions You have a lot to finish up here Exp. design--list materials and steps to complete experiment research Conclusions--explain your data and what it means to you. Presentation--explain experiment and offer further research at the end--ppt or photostory work well |
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March 9, 2011 | 6:16 PM |
Ms. L
(Teacher)
experimental design Ok Thornberries, a little more on the explanation and materials and steps in this portion. Pretend that someone has heard about a great discovery you have made while completing this experiment.. Now this person is an ego-maniac and thinks you are wrong so he is going to redo your experiment and expose you. You know you are doing things correctly and trust your results so...spel it out so the experiment can be easily repeated:) |
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March 9, 2011 | 7:36 AM |
Dr. Devi Annamalai
(Scientist/Mentor)
Hi Hey THORNBRRIES, Any updates about your experiments. Please let us know. We are eagerly waiting for your result and most of all the discussions that would follow. :) Devi |
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February 28, 2011 | 11:34 AM |
Dr. Devi Annamalai
(Scientist/Mentor)
Hi Hi THORNBRRIES, Hope you all are doing fantastically well. A very warm welcome to Planting Science program. Myself Devi Annamalai. I just completed my Ph.D in Plant Molecular biology. And I absolutely love teaching science. I always ask teams some basic questions before they delve more into their project: 1. How did you guys settle on this research question? 2. Why did you select mung beans/Clover seeds as your system of interest? 3. When you say "Seeds would grow more efficiently", how exactly are you planning to measure the efficiency of seeds growth? 4. Could you please add more specifics to the experimental design such as; what are your controls, dependent and independent variables etc? Please update us regularly on your team's progress. I am looking forward to this experience. Devi |
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February 28, 2011 | 7:36 AM |
thornberries
(Team Member)
Introduce hello my name is Paul, everbody calls me Pauly D |
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February 15, 2011 | 11:14 AM |
Dr. Claire Hemingway
Welcome! I am happy to welcome you to this community of plant researchers. Your team has the opportunity to be mentored by a scientist to help you develop and perform your own research project. The mentor's role is to encourage and guide you through the scientific process of discovery. The more you share your ideas and research information online, the more your mentor can help. Have fun, and remember the entire digital world sees your work and comments. Your scientist mentor for this project will be Ms. Devi Annamalai from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Please introduce yourself to your mentor to get a conversation rolling and post some of your team's brainstorming ideas and interests in investigating germination. These resources are available to help you get started: Thinking Like a Scientist / Working Like a Scientist Designing Experiments Guide to Using A Spreadsheet Best wishes as you start this scientific journey. We are all pleased to share this experience with you. Have fun! Sincerely, The PlantingScience team |
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February 15, 2011 | 6:57 AM |
pink44
(Team Member)
TEAM THORNBRRIES!!!!! WOOHOO! |
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February 15, 2011 | 6:56 AM |
pink44
(Team Member)
hello im kc i am very excited to be starting this project |
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