Where do California Poppies Grow?
Adam’s students in Ms. Rogers-O’Reilly’s class won the Best Data Presentation award for their work on where California Poppies grow best. With the help of their scientist, Parviez Hosseini, they designed six treatments. They planted poppy seeds in either soil or sand. The seeds received fresh water, salt water, or a mixture of the two. What did they learn? Poppies planted in soil and watered with fresh water grew the most. Plants in sand and watered with a mixture of fresh and salt water also grew well, as did plants in soil watered with the mixture. Pure salt water was not good for the plants. What would these scientists do differently? They thought that another way to evaluate their results would be to measure the plants at the end and perhaps let the experiment run longer so that plants are larger. Best Artwork How Water Pollution Affects Plants Cleveland students in Ms. Hines-Knight’s class won the Best Artwork award for their work on how water pollution affects plants. With the he
