Features
Featured Post
Hi Team. Wow, great progress. Excellent research on salt concentrations. Since seawater is about 35 ppt (35 g/L), then you've selected great concentrations to work. Depending on how you plan to treat the plants, even those might be a trifle high, but you will find out soon enough.
For your methods, do I understand correctly that you will germinate some seeds in petri dishes with paper towels wetted with your test solutions? If so, that sounds great. You might even consider trying a very low salt conc like 0.3%.
And, will you also be growing you plants in soil and then watering with the test solutions? If so, you might want to consider planting the seeds and allowing them to germinate with just water as necessary. Then, once the seedlings are established you can water them with your treatments. Otherwise, you will be also looking at the effect of salt on seed germination more or less duplicating your petri dish results but a little less precisely. One question will be whether to only water every time with your test solutions or perhaps just once heavily. If you water every time, watch out for salt buildup. If it occurs, you might consider backing off using your test solutions.
Impressive job team!
-
This team has been working hard on their experimental design and have had to communicate with absent group members via Google Meet. They are making things work, even though it's been difficult at times.
Help us grow!
Your contribution at any level will go directly toward increasing capacity to serve more teachers and students and it will help to sustain the program. Get a print copy of the book Inquiring About Plants: A Practical Guide to Engaging Science Practices by Uno, Sundberg and Hemingway with a donation of $30 or more.
Donate Now
Preparing for the
24-25 School Year?
Teachers! If you're thinking of bringing PlantingScience mentoring into your classroom during the 24-25 school year, applications are now open for BOTH sessions!
To apply, log in to your PlantingScience account and locate the application link under 'Resources'. For more information, check out 'Join as a Teacher' above!
Scientists, this is a great time to update your availability and consider adding Investigation Themes to your preferences. If you are new to PlantingScience, check out 'Join as a Mentor'.
We're looking forward to working with you! Please contact us if you have any questions.
-
Scientist Mentors Needed!
As we grow and continue to pursue our F2 research, we are sending out this appeal to our Scientist community: please spread the word and invite your students, colleagues, and friends to sign up and mentor with us! Mentors range from late undergraduate students to emeritus scientists. Feel free to download our mentor flyer and post it in your institution to encourage others to join us, too!
Testimonials
“I liked that we didn’t know what was going to happen before we did the experiment. Instead of being taught something and then just doing an experiment to prove it, we made an attempt to find out what would happen ourselves.”
- PlantingScience Student
“At every opportunity, all involved kept reminding my students of the process that real science requires. This helped me to convince my students that they are really doing science - not just play acting until some future date.”
- PlantingScience Teacher
“It is a lot of fun interacting with students from an age group I don’t have the chance to spend a lot of time with. It is a good reminder of where public knowledge of plant science stands, and a great opportunity for me to practice explaining key concepts in a simple and straightforward way.”
- PlantingScience Mentor