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I started keeping track of everything I'm doing with my pepper plants starting last Friday when I first planted them. I made this chart so I can keep record of what I'm doing just so I can look back and see what went wrong or right. Pepper Plant A and Pepper Plant B are both looking good. As shown in my observations column, no growth has been seen so far. I will be updating this chart in later blogs, to update you on the plants. In about two weeks I will begin to add compost. I will keep track of all that data as well in my chart!
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Today I planted my test plants for my compost experiment. Just a quick review of what I'm doing: I have been working on my compost bin for some time now and now that I have contributed quite a lot of compost items, I am almost ready to start my experiment. I will put a certain amount of compost dirt in one of these Pepper plants and the other I am using to compare.
Hypothesis: I think since compost is full of nutrients and "good stuff" so it will be great for the pepper plant. The other will be healthy as well because it will be fed normally and have the same sunlight. I think the one with compost will not die but neither all of a sudden grow faster. The compost will just make the soil more healthy. I am going to do the same thing everyday. I am making a chart of when I am watering them, when and how much compost I will put in the one pepper plant and the growth of each plant.
Deanna and I decided to team up and present a fun lab for our class! We want to make mini terrariums. I will go into more depth into how and what we will use to build them later in my blog posts. Below you will find our rubric that we feel is fit for us. Everyone wrote their own rubrics because everyone has different projects who require different requirements. We all had to get them approved by Will, of course. Deliverable: Deanna and I will meet up some time next week to discuss plans for our terrarium. As of now, we are planning to make a sample terrarium and prepare a lab for our class and provide materials so they can do it too. Our lesson will include how to make it, how to maintain it, and varieties of ways to make them. Documentation: We will each post once a week on how the growth of our project is going with pictures. Exhibition: Exhibition is quite awhile away so everything is uncertain on how we will present our project. But some ideas are making a trifold, or a mini pamphlet of the directions on how to make a terrarium. We could do even both of those. We were thinking of selling the pamphlets for $1, just to get a little money back from what we are going to spend. |
Cecilia Carranza-DavisI will be posting an updated blog of the progress of my terrarium, compost bin and other activities connected to honors biology. Archives
June 2016
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