Thursday, December 14, 2017
Steven's Seed Story
For the last story of the seed post we will be interviewing a classmate for their experience with the story of the seed. I am interviewing Steven and asking him about his experience. Steven has learned that plants grow faster than he originally thought. Steven has learned how to use a syringe and how to plant certain plants. Steven was very surprised when he opened the syringe and all of the medicine spilled on him. He was amazed on how big his plant got, but then the plant died. Steven laughed because of how lost his teammates were so he had to carry the team to finish the project. Steven paused to think a little bit deeper when his plants started dying and wondered why they died so quickly.
Story of the seed Blog post #4
Story of the seed#4
There are a few abiotic factors that our plant depends on for surviving. Some of the factors include water, sunlight, temperature, oxygen, and soil. These factors were and are very important in the development of our plant. First off, water is the most important factor. Our plant needs a decent amount of water to stay and remain healthy and the soil needed to be good in order for it to keep growing well. Finally, sunlight and temperature were also crucial. Temperature and sunlight have a big effect on how much the plant grows. If there is more sunlight and a warmer temperature, than the plant will grow much more. Also with rain the plant should grow and the rain is good for the soil.
Our plant is definitely engaged in competition. The competitors are the other plants next to it in the garden. The plants are competing for water and nutrients, they try and get more water and nutrients than the surrounding plants. Wild animals in the garden are also definitely engaged in competition also. They are competing for certain foods and nutrients.
In life there are always “winners” and “losers”, same with in the garden. “Winners” would be the ones benefiting from something, and the “losers” are the ones with a disadvantage. Sometimes it can be hard to tell what plants and animals win or lose. For example if a plant rots and dies it would be considered a “loser” rather than if the plant were to grow a lot and it be very green. Then it would be a “winner”. Another example of winners and losers would be aphids and plants. The winner would be aphid because they are getting sugars from the plants. The loser would be the plant because it is getting infected with viruses from the aphid.
There are many forms of interactions dealing with plants in the garden. Some forms of interactions are mutualism in which 2 organisms benefit from each other and parasitism. An example of mutualism in the garden is a bee and a flower/plant. The bee would get nectar from the flower, and the bee fertilizes the flower allowing it to reproduce. Another example of parasitism is with aphids and plants. The aphids are small insects who suck out fluids from plants and give plants very negative viruses. The aphids turn plant leaves yellow and they usually inject toxins into plants. Aphids benefit from getting sugars from the plants.
There is succession going on in the garden currently is secondary succession. There is proof of succession going on because our plant and most of the plants are growing, getting much bigger, and much greener. It isn’t primary succession because the garden isn’t lacking soil or hasn’t dealt with any natural disasters.
Elizabeth's Seed Story
1: What have you learned?
"Planting is a lot more complicated than it seems"
2: What surprised or amazed you?
"How slow it took for our plants to grow even though they did not grow that much"
3: What made you laugh?
"Talking about putting drugs in our plants"
4: What made you pause and think a little deeper?
"Thinking about what the purpose of this activity was"
5: What questions do you have about things you observed or experienced in the garden?
"Why did our plant stop growing all of a sudden?"
"Planting is a lot more complicated than it seems"
2: What surprised or amazed you?
"How slow it took for our plants to grow even though they did not grow that much"
3: What made you laugh?
"Talking about putting drugs in our plants"
4: What made you pause and think a little deeper?
"Thinking about what the purpose of this activity was"
5: What questions do you have about things you observed or experienced in the garden?
"Why did our plant stop growing all of a sudden?"
Story of the Seed Blog Post #3
Some changes in our plant over the past 2 weeks are that they got larger and it became a very dark green instead of the light color it was as a young plant. Are is one the biggest in the garden and is in great condition this year.
Just about every living thing in the world plays a role in their lifetime, are plant plays a role in the water cycle with transpiration. This process is where the moisture is put through the plants beginning at the roots to the pores under the leaves. Then it is changed to vapor, and gets released into the atmosphere. This water cycle benefits are plant to make it larger, healthier, and dark shade of green.
Our plant is a part of the carbon cycle by being involved in photosynthesis , which is when the plants takes in carbon dioxide and water using chlorophyll in its leaves and the sun. It is able to release the oxygen, water vapor, and sugars all at once. Our plants role in the carbon cycle relates to changes in its looks by keeping it alive and helping it grow. Also, if the plant does not have have photosynthesis the could not feed itself, where it will eventually die. Photosynthesis is one of the biggest role that has made our plant a lot bigger than the others.
Our plant´s role in the nitrogen cycle begins with bacteria. Bacteria helps change the nitrogen so plants can use it. Animals will then get the nitrogen from the plants that will absorb it. Nitrogen also relates to the plants growth this week because without nitrogen, our plant could not live. It helps the chlorophyll in our plant which helps with photosynthesis to produce it owns food and energy.
Just about every living thing in the world plays a role in their lifetime, are plant plays a role in the water cycle with transpiration. This process is where the moisture is put through the plants beginning at the roots to the pores under the leaves. Then it is changed to vapor, and gets released into the atmosphere. This water cycle benefits are plant to make it larger, healthier, and dark shade of green.
Our plant is a part of the carbon cycle by being involved in photosynthesis , which is when the plants takes in carbon dioxide and water using chlorophyll in its leaves and the sun. It is able to release the oxygen, water vapor, and sugars all at once. Our plants role in the carbon cycle relates to changes in its looks by keeping it alive and helping it grow. Also, if the plant does not have have photosynthesis the could not feed itself, where it will eventually die. Photosynthesis is one of the biggest role that has made our plant a lot bigger than the others.
Our plant´s role in the nitrogen cycle begins with bacteria. Bacteria helps change the nitrogen so plants can use it. Animals will then get the nitrogen from the plants that will absorb it. Nitrogen also relates to the plants growth this week because without nitrogen, our plant could not live. It helps the chlorophyll in our plant which helps with photosynthesis to produce it owns food and energy.
William's Seed Story
Today I interviewed William and learned about his seed story. He had a interesting time carrying out this project, because he ran into some small issues, like forgetting a control group. He learned how to improve on growing plants. He was amazed by how much information is embedded in the plants and there is so much more in photosynthesis than he thought. He also thought it was funny when they wrapped their plants in different colored lights. A challenging process for him was grasping the biochemical cycles and what they involved. Overall he had a pretty good time doing this project and had fun time.
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Claudia's seed story
For the last story of the seed post we will be interviewing a classmate for their expreience with the story of the seed. I am interviewing Claudia and asking about her experience. Here are the questions are responses.
Claudia learned how to garden plants and how not only water can make plants grow and she said that was pretty interesting.
The most surprising part of this for her was how the plant grew a lot and they thought it wouldn't grow that much.
The funniest part of the story of the seed for Claudia was working with her teammates, especially Andres. He was very funny and he made a ton of bad plant jokes, in which made this experience not too bad.
Claudia would probably have tried watering the plants with new liquids and might have done more trials with the plants
Claudia says she would definetly want to garden for plants that either smell really nice or look beautiful, or even if she could get food from them, like a tomato plant, or a watermelon plant.
Here are the questions
What have you learned from this experience?
What was the most surprising part about the story of the seed
What was the funniest part of the story of the seed?
What would you have differently if you did this again?
From doing the story of the seed would you ever want to plant plants again?
Claudia learned how to garden plants and how not only water can make plants grow and she said that was pretty interesting.
The most surprising part of this for her was how the plant grew a lot and they thought it wouldn't grow that much.
The funniest part of the story of the seed for Claudia was working with her teammates, especially Andres. He was very funny and he made a ton of bad plant jokes, in which made this experience not too bad.
Claudia would probably have tried watering the plants with new liquids and might have done more trials with the plants
Claudia says she would definetly want to garden for plants that either smell really nice or look beautiful, or even if she could get food from them, like a tomato plant, or a watermelon plant.
Here are the questions
What have you learned from this experience?
What was the most surprising part about the story of the seed
What was the funniest part of the story of the seed?
What would you have differently if you did this again?
From doing the story of the seed would you ever want to plant plants again?
Friday, December 1, 2017
Enzyme lab report
Hypothesis: I think the temperature will affect the way our enzyme performs. If the temperature is high production will speed up. If the temperature is lower there will be a low production.
Independent Variable: Temperature change.
Dependent Variable: How much foam come out of the heated or cooled substrate when it is mixed with the plant extract(enzyme).
Controlled Variables: The enzyme at room temperature.
Justification of hypothesis: When stuff becomes heated up to a certain extent it will work better and faster.
Why did you choose this as your hypothesis?
Materials (Your Team’s Experiment): Plant extract, Hydrogen peroxide, water, and test tubes.
Procedure: First we have to get our enzyme by mashing up plants and creating an extract. Then we need to fill one tube with just water for the control. Then have 3 with hydrogen peroxide that is at room temperature. Next, we need to have 3 that are heated to 50 degrees celsius and 3 that are cooled to 5 degrees celsius.
Summary: The lab was pretty easy to perform, but we got some unexpected results. We did the controls first and got the results we expected. Next we did our 3 heated tests and they did little to nothing at all. We initially thought the heat would speed up and make the reaction bigger, but it seems like 50 degrees celsius was too hot for the enzyme to operate properly. Then we did our 3 cold tests next and the results were even smaller and slower than any of them.
Data and Results:
(This section should include at least one graph!)
Control with no peroxide : No reaction.
Control with peroxide (room temp) : 4.5 cm. 4.23 minutes
50 Celsius : 1. 1.1 cm 6.24 minutes 2. .3 cm 5.83 minutes 3. .1 cm 5.34 minutes
5 Celsius : 1. .1 cm 8.9 minutes 2. .2 cm 8.45 minutes 3. .6 cm 9.2 minutes
Conclusions: In conclusion, we realized that maybe room temperature was the optimum operation temperature for the enzyme to operate since the plant we got the extract from does only grow in this time of year because the temperature.
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