Wisconsin Fast Plants - getting all the seeds out

Today we are taking all the seeds out of the seed pods. I had 25 seeds. I think light is a very important factor for growing these plants. I didn't have anything close to what my partner did. She had 100 some. I think that my experiment was a failure.

Seed Pods

This week our seed pods need to dry up so we can pick out all the seeds. So we need to take them off the watering system to have them dry up. I don't have that many seed pods. Only 3 some people in my class have like 20.

Wisconsin Fast Plants Dying

My plants are getting bigger seed pods. They were not very big on Monday. Our plants are at the stage of dying. Once all the plants have no flowers and all have seed pods we will take them off the watering system. Then they will dry up and we can take all the seeds out of the seed pods.

Wisconiosn Fast Plants Day-23

Our plants are starting to die!  They are starting to grow seed pods. The seed pods have the seeds in them.

Wisonsion Fast Plants Day-20

Today my plants finally flowered! I am so happy. I think it took longer  to flower because it wasn't getting the 24 hours of good light. I was getting kinda sad when my plants weren't  flowering and everyone else were!

Light

My plants wont blossom flowers! I think its because of the light that im testing. One other person in my class is testing light and his isn't doing very well either. Now after his wasn't growing it got me thinking tt maybe its the light. At first i thought i did something wrong like it wasn't getting enough water or i put the seed to deep or to shallow. But now i think its the light.

Wisconsin Fast Plants Day-18

My plants don't have any flowers yet! My partners plants have flowers and a couple other people in my class do. I have 21 leaves and my partner has 17. Her plant is 16cm mine is 12cm. I don't think that putting it by the window is helping much because my plants arent very tall.

March Madness with Books

We had a tournament with books. We each picked out a book we thought would be the best. I picked Wonder.  I chose this book because it has a lesson and the lesson is to never judge a person by the way they look. This is how the tournament works we picked names out of a hat and that who went against. We wrote argument writings. We gave reasons why we thought this book should be the champion and why this book is the best. We filled out a rubric. So like 2 people from either class would go up in the front of the room read theirs and then we would evaluate them from 1-5 in each area. After that Mr. Hummel added the scores. At the end of the day he would tell us who wins and they would move on to the next round. I had a lot of fun doing this and I hope we can do it next year in 6th grade.

Wisconsin Fast Plants Day-15

As you can see my partners has grown a lot since yesterday. Her flower buds have really gotten big. Hers have gotten really tall! Mine is 8cm and hers is 12cm.  I have 17 leaves and she only has 15. I think is weird that hers is taller and has less leaves than i do.

Wisconsin Fast Plants Day-14

STILL today i have 14 leaves!  I don't know  why this is happening! My plants aren't very tall either! I think this is happening because of me putting it by the window.

Wisconsin Fast Plants Day-13

My partners plant is growing flowers buds! Mine is starting to get flowers buds  too but not as good as Nicole's. Her leaves are really big too. I think maybe putting it by the window is helping a little. My plant is not as tall as my partners, hers is 7 cm and mine is 5 cm.  My plant doesn't have as much flower buds as my partners. I have 17 leaves and my partner has 16 leaves.

Wisconsin Fast Plants Day-12

 My plants are going crazy! We added more soil to mine because, tipping sideways. I think mine is tipping sideways because of the sun. My partners is doing great! We had to raise our lighting system because the plants are growing so much.