Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Tomatosphere Project
The Cycle 2 took on a special project this month - the Tomatopshere Project.
The primary objective of this project was to determine whether tomato seeds could grow on the planet Mars or not. We had 2 sets of seeds, a control group and seeds that had been influenced by an element related to space travel. The students did not know a head of time which seeds belonged to which category. After 5 days the first seeds began to germinate. On the last date of the project one group had 47 seeds that germinated out of 53. The second group had 40 seeds that grew out of 54 seeds. The students then spectulated that the second group were the seeds that had been influenced by an element related to space travel. Once we submintted the results, the project coordinator did inform us that our hypotheses had been correct. The seeds that had less germination results were the "Mars" seeds. So...perhaps tomatoes may be
planted on Mars in the near future????
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Cycle two,
ReplyDeleteEvery time I walked by your room, I thought the peat pods were brownies. I believe that for that type of torture you should bring me some brownies :) Great experiment guys.
Lynnette
great way to learn about other planets and have the youth see how the planets are different.
ReplyDeleteI had lots of fun doing this project.mom & I just transplanted the ones I took home
ReplyDeleteRobert W :0)
Wow! Sounds like a terrific project! Maybe next you will be seeing if we can grow something on another planet! Your class might have some future astronauts Dorothy. Good work once again! I love to visit your blog and see what you guys have been up to!
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