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PlantingScience.org About Student Teacher Scientist Projects Resources Welcome to PlantingScience Planting Science is a learning community where scientists provide online mentorship to student teams as they design and think through their own inquiry projects. Engaging in the science process and becoming familiar with science practices enhances science learning. The ability to collaborate, discuss, and reflect with scientists and peers opens new doors to motivate students, and builds necessary pathways for 21st century skills. How to Join Help us grow! Your contribution at any level will go directly toward increasing capacity to serve more teachers and students and it will help to sustain the program. Donate Now What’s Happening PlantingScience expands in Canada With help from the Canadian Botanical Association , PlantingScience is recruiting Canadian schools to participate. Learn more at plantingscience.org/canada.html Fall Session Coming Soon The Fall session will run from September 14 - November 20 How can your class participate? Our teachers value an inquiry approach, integrate the three dimensions of the next generation science standards into their teaching, and bring technology into their school. Does this describe you? If so, please consider applying for an upcoming session. Learn how to participate Interested in becoming a scientist mentor? Our scientists are concerned with improving science literacy, willing to donate their time to mentor students and excited to share their passion for the plant sciences. Want to help? We are now recruiting mentors for the Fall session Volunteer as a scientist mentor Are you a graduate student or post-doc? Consider joining our Master Plant Science Team. New Content We are excited to unveil some new PlantingScience resources. You will now see some new icons and links on the student, mentor, and teacher pages. Check out our new Roadmap through an Investigation and the new Plant Investigation Toolkit for tips to help guide you through your plant science project. On our new Partners’ Links page you find many websites useful for teaching and learning about plants and about careers in the plant sciences. What Participants are Saying "I love this opportunity for kids. It is the best thing that I have to get kids interacting with a �community� of people trying to understand a small aspect of the world in a scientific way. It gets kids interested because they have choice in the question and design, they have opportunity to get their hands on stuff and use the computer to connect with people from around the country. How cool of a learning opportunity is that?" — Planting Science Teacher "It is a lot of fun interacting with students from an age group I don�t have the chance to spend a lot of time with. It is a good reminder of where public knowledge of plant science stands, and a great opportunity for me to practice explaining key concepts in a simple and straightforward way." — Planting Science Scientist Mentor "I liked having the advantage to speak with scientists from other areas around the world and looking at other experiments being done by other students. This to me helped give my group and I more ideas for our experiment and it kind of showed us how we could improve ours and make it a little more detailed with less problems." — Planting Science Student Awards Star Project Winners This session is sponsored by: Erica A. Fishel, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Congratulations to our latest Star Project Winners! Check out the Star Project Gallery to learn what makes these projects exemplary. A Blast of Chloroplast High Technology High School Lincroft , New Jersey How does the alteration in emission of light patterns generated by LEDs affect oxygen production in plants? Bill Nye the Science Guy Cumberland Regional High School Seabrook , New Jersey What is the ideal amount of water for radish germination? Team Green Lake Orion High School Lake Orion , Michigan Will the amount of water received by the plant effect the rate of photosynthesis? Soybean Queens Balboa High School San Francisco , CA How does the water temperature affect plant growth? Sup Science Sebastian Charter Jr. High Sebastian , FL Do seeds germinate faster in sunlight or with no light? Live, Love, Leaf Hopewell Valley Central High School Pennington , NJ How do different colors of light affect the rate of photosynthesis? Thar She Grows Service High School Anchorage , AK How much plant growth is due to the energy the plant receives from the endosperm and how much growth is due to the photosynthesis of the plant? The Lord of the Seeds St. Sebastian School Akron , Ohio How does pretreating seeds in different solutions affect the germination rate of corn and buckwheat? 50 shades of green Springfield Central High School Springfield , Massachusetts Will a treatment of water mixed with aspirin quicken germination of the seed and improve plant growth, will it damage the plants health, or will there be no difference between the aspirin solution and a normal water solution? #OurTeamIsBetter Northwest R1 High School Cedar Hill , Missouri What is the impact of different mixtures of water on a plants growth and phenotype? The water mixtures would be: a control of tap water, a variable of salt water, a variable of a vinegar mixture, and a variable of a dye mixture to test if the mixtures affect the color of leaves and or stem and see if the growth is affected due to non pure water. Night Hawks Northwest R1 High School Cedar Hill , Missouri Does spraying salt water or having salt water within the soil have a greater affect on dehydration with plants? The Secret Agents Marion Jr/Sr High School Marion , Michigan Does changing the soil mixture affect the height of seedlings after 15 days?(Changed to 10 days because we ran out of time) Silent Raccoons Derby High School , Class Question - How does the amount of fertilizer affect quantitative and qualitative traits in Brassica rapa? Group Question - How does the amount of fertilizer affect the height of Brassica rapa plants? Project Green Woodstock High School Woodstock , Georgia How would one, through manipulating the plants genes, further improve the durability and structure of the plants stem? And, Furthermore, which genes would best fit this goal? Login User name Password Remember me Log in Problems? New Student? Sign Up! Online 2 anonymous users and 0 registered users online. 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