Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Day# 14: 2G Observes Parsley and Basil

Parsley grown in the dark:

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Student observation of parsley in the dark:
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Parsley grown in the light:
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Student observation of Parsley:
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Basil
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At first some students were concerned that the parsley (in the light) was not successfully growing, but Kevin noticed, that according to our chart, it can take parsley 14-60 days to emerge from the soil.  It only takes basil 4-10 days to emerge. 

Ms. Macaulay's Favorite Fungus

Today, 6th grade students heard a portion of a lecture, "A Visit to the Mushroom Planet," given at Cornell by mycology professor, Dr. Kathy Hodges. (6S will get a chance to hear this tomorrow)  As part of the lecture, students got a glimpse of the weird world of mushrooms, including the largest fungus (actually largest living organism) in Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon and my personal favorite, pilobolus!  Ask your student to tell you about pilobolus.

Here is pilobolus in time lapse...

Here's an article about the Oregon fungus...

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=120049&page=1#.T2DKlzsc_io

Middle School Robotics

Today we had two visitors from the middle school robotics team come and visit the 6D science class. They presented about their upcoming competition, their research/experimentation with food safety (the competition's theme) and the middle school robotics team in general! Everyone got to handle the robot!

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3rd Graders Plant Seeds

Students planted herbs and flowers with Allison Foley-Graham and Meika Mustrani of Healthy Hunter. Eventually each child will take a herb plant home with them in a homemade sub-irrigated planter. In the Spring, with Meika and Allison's help, the 3rd graders will build large sub-irrigated planters out of recycled materials and transplant the flowers.

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