Science Leadership Academy @ Beeber

Bio-Compost Bin

Posted by Mukhtar Stones in Botany · Aziz · y1 on Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 10:35 pm

For my quarter 2 botany project I worked in a group with Austin, Obassi, and Darome, where we created an environmental friendly design for the school. We worked with Principal Johnson in order to create school friendly bio degradable trash bins. That helped keep the school clean, and that were used in the school yard whenever students played outside. We followed all the checkpoints, and made sure the project was done correctly by meeting up with Mr. Johnson.

Our project design is made for the purpose of throwing away bio degradable items into a mini compost bin, that will be removed every often it needs to. This project was made to get rid of bio wast and keep the outside of the school clean because there is a problem of students leaving food behind after lunch, such as banana peels, and orange peels.

We could use the compost from the bin for the rest of the other compost that is used in the school yard for plants that need, water, and sunlight to grow.

This project shows what we as mankind can do to change our environment and take the initiative to improve it. Nature is apart of our environment, full of living organisms and fauna, if we use technology to help better it to keep it safe. Technology is man made we need to create more man made devices to help our environment and nature. We didn't complete and create some of the things we wanted for the design but it still came out right. Its not our exact blueprint and we wanted more but its our basic and general idea of how it should be.

As you can see I am very proud of our project we could of done more and better, if given a second chance, we created the bin so it would be movable with wheels. We wanted to make sure it be protected and nobody be able to steel it or break.

Computer Science Project

Posted by Jordon Gillies in Intro to Design and Multmiedia on Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 10:18 pm

https://youtu.be/pbZENPNRKAw

I did my project on Code HS, where I had to give this dog named Karel commands to do things with different levels. Some examples of the commands were I had to tell him to pick up and put down balls, move,turn right and turn left. This gave me many challenges which I wanted to give up because I felt stuck many times. This website though has taught me to be patient and find the little mistakes. It showed that coding takes time and you will have to restart your whole code often. If you make the simplest mistake like not indenting something or putting a ; it will mess up your whole code and it wont work. Its frustrating but the satisfaction of the success when you complete the code is worth it. Coding is everywhere in this world since we are now a technological world and everything is dependent on technology. But everything is about technology is stupid without a code from a human built into it. Without people knowing how to code we wouldn't have game consoles,computers,etc. If anyone else wanted to do this project I would tell them to go for it but have a lot of patience and concentration.

Green Top Landscaping - Model Desk - Errion and Epifanio

Posted by Errion Holness in Botany · Aziz · y1 on Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 1:28 pm

Our project was about us becoming a Green Design company aimed at creating furniture items convenient for your home or classroom. We aim to keep it simple and realistic. For our client, we researched important items deemed necessary for a classroom since she is a teacher. We concluded that we could build her a desk. The only suggestion was that we included her favorite colors which were cobalt blue, goldenrod yellow and purple.We were able to include a shade of yellow on the sides and blue on the acrylic.

Before we began to build the desk, we brainstormed and mapped out what we'd need with a blue print. The blue print showed the amount of pieces of wood we'd need and their sizes. We also included where these pieces would go.

We created a space in the desk where the plant would contain a moderate temperature, space and shelter. The plant will be able to grow and vine itself around the legs of the table while sitting comfortable flat on the ground. It should still be able to obtain sunlight from an angle through the acrylic.

Nature and technology can connect greatly because it speeds up the process of the plant growth or aesthetic of the technology.

I believe Epi and I worked great together. We communicated well and greatly brainstormed what we'd like the outcome to be. I think we could've planned out our classes and planned in a timely order of what was needed. I feel that that way we would've put in a little more detail into the table.

The Plant Design

Posted by Tasheba Francis in Botany · Aziz · y1 on Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 1:18 pm

The project was creating a planter for Mr. Rosen-Long that represent the Maya era. It was supposed to look kind of like the urn. Mr. Rosen-Long wanted tropical flowers or fruits to be planted. Tropical plants will need a lot of indirect sunlight, water, and high humidity. The design can probably support a small flower or two. Plants adapt to wherever they grow in order to grow and flourish. If the area doesn’t fit the plant's required needs the plant won’t be able to survive. If the plants grow a certain way our design won’t be able to support it. For example, since our planter is small a pineapple won’t be able to grow inside because of how the planter isn’t shaped for it. A flower just needs enough room to grow it's rooted until it gets a certain size or unless the flower is very small. Nature and technology go hand to hand without nature we would not have half of the creations we have today. Nature can be anywhere from where you live too deep into a jungle somewhere. We need nature to create what’s best us and everything. Technology is just advancements we create for the future to get better or worst. The group I am in created something to grow a beautiful flower or something. We could've communicated more, but other than that project came out pretty well.

Q2 Botany compost bin and base

Posted by Austin Heng in Botany · Aziz · y1 on Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 12:58 pm

What is your project about? Describe the process you used to accomplish your goals. Look back at the steps you had to take in your checkpoints. Describe your landscape architecture company and what your clients had asked for. How did you accomplish your goals and meet your clients' desire? Hint: Green Design Research

My project is about collecting biodegradable items for a compost bin and making sure we have fertilizer for other students plants. We have a base that we tie the trash can to an we can tie the trash can to the hooks on the base with wheels at the bottom. Our project is to help out other students in the future, people have said they needed to collect compost so we are going to build a device for them to use when they need it.

2. What does a plant need to thrive? Describe how the design of your project took into account the needs of the plant you are planting in your design (i.e. water, nutrition, temperature, safety, amount of sunlight).

A plant needs soil, sunlight, water and air. we are helping others by providing soil and fertilizer for them to keep their plants healthy. some plants don't need water but most do, and

3.Describe what affects a plant's design based on what you have learned from your past assignments. Hint: look back at BozemanScience: Plants Video, Nature’s Blueprint: Solar cells inspired by plant cells, Fall Leaves Infographic, What determines a plant's design?

you need certain prerequisites and certain conditions for a plant to show growth. if you don't have the correct soil, or the correct weather conditions the plant could die. We learned that compost doesnt need anything done to it except soil added and then just compiled biodegradable items

4.In what ways are the plant's design and the design of your project similar? Think about what affected the overall design of your project and also the development of plants.

We have the soil and other items to help nourish plants. The compost is different from actual plants, there arent many similarities because it helps to grow plants and isnt a plant itself. Thinking of similarities, the actually trash can is like the stem of the plant protecting the plants cells inside.

5. After doing the Green Design, how do you perceive the relationship between nature and technology? Why? Remember to define nature and technology in your own terms.

We are taking old plants from nature and re-purposing them. We are making them help out the growth of other plants. Technology is anything created by man. We created the base and we have a trashcan created by man.

6.Overall, what did your group do well in the project? What could your group improve on?

We did well incorporating the thing Mr.Johnson wanted, a trash can holder, and a compost bin that we wanted. We had a hard time in the makerspace because so many people were working at one time. We were all struggling to do things in a timely manner because of other problems. I wish we had more time in the maker space and more wood to make the pillars and base we wanted. we wanted to make a door to protect the trashcan inside but there wasnt enough large pieces of wood.

Botany Project: Tyrone Grant

Posted by Tyrone Grant in Botany · Aziz · y1 on Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 12:43 pm

Hello, I’m Tyrone Grant, one of the members of Peachy Designs. I am here to talk about and represent a design that my company has made which would bring a better economy into the school. The design we made was to help bring plants into the building, more specifically for our client, Ms. Fanning. This design brings much more life into her small and lifeless room. She requested to have some life put into her room such as plants because she loves plants and want some in her room. This is how we came up with our design. The design that my company made was a planter. We believe that a planter is the most capable for bringing in plants into her room.

When you think about what plants need to survive such as water, soil, and sunlight, these needs are important information when we made our design. So, We made our planter deep so that there would be an abundance amount of soil so that Ms. Fanning could have a diverse selection of plants, made sure that the planter was open so that the plants could get plenty of sunlight, and we closed up the cracks and and laminated the wood so that the water wouldn’t negatively affect the wood or her room in general. It was crucial for us to improve our design because plants can be affected by so many things like: if there were a lack of water or sunlight for the plants, it would most likely kill the plant, or if there’s a lack of soil, the plant wouldn’t be able to obtain enough nutrients from the dirt which would make the plant die as well.

Most of the plants that Ms. Fanning chose can usually be grown inside of a building which beneficial for us because we would then have to create a design that was built for more of the outside. That’s why the design of the plants and our own design are so similar, because they were both made for the inside. When we made our design, we’ve used different types of technology to come up with our calculations and produce our object. At first, I always thought that technology and nature don’t mix with each other, they just try to cancel out each other. But after doing this, I realized that technology can enhance and improve our nature because we used technology to make something economic and beneficial to our economy.

Overall, I believe that all members of the Peachy Designs have come together to make a wonderful design that has potential to brighten up this building, but there were a couple of problems that our company did bump into. For example, some workers contributed more than others. I want all of the members to contribute an equal amount of work so that it would be fair to call it our design. The second thing is that if my company had more time, the overall design would probably be more “polished” than what it is now. Beside those two things, the design was a success, and our client was happy with the overall design.

The Green Design Adventure

Posted by Tymere Alexander in Botany · Aziz · y1 on Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 12:38 pm

Good morrow ladies and gents, it is me Tymere Alexander here with mine, Morgan, and Tasheba's finest plant design created! The shape as you can see is a pentagon that looks kinda like a popcorn box, but has a strong structure which will protect the plant as it grows withing the popcorn box.

This was definitely an interesting experience with this project. I never worked in the Maker Space before because I had a fear of using tools. So I had to overcome that fear in order to continue the process on creating the structure.

My group mates were extremely helpful. They all do their work. They were very helpful in contructing the project. Each of us had something to contribute which made the project all the easier.

I have a different view on nature and technology after this project. After completing an assignment on nature and technology, I learned about the yin and yang of the two. Nature is used to create new technology and technology is used to discover more of nature and vise versa. I always thought differently about how they worked.

Q2 Botany Benchmark - Ali Mohammed

Posted by Ali Mohammed in Botany · Aziz · y1 on Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 12:16 pm

We are Peachy Designs and we work with many people all over to help them be more green in some shape or form. Our most recent client Ms. Fanning located on the second floor next to Mr.Johnson’s office is our wonderful Guidance Counselor and fabulous creative writing teacher. Sh told us that she wanted her room to be more green so we decided to create a garden box and place it in her room.Ms. Fanning will give the plants what it needs to thrive such as water and general care and since her room has a lot of sunlight that will come naturally. Our green design relates to almost all of our previous assignment which teaches us the inner workings of the plant therefore teaching us how to take care of the plant better and create a stable place for the plant to survive. Overall I would say the as a group we did good on the project however and think that since we were so exciting in creating we did not plan ahead for possible problems of the garden box such as it being knocked over. We do believe that we satisfied our customer and look forward to working with her sometime soon.

Our project is to create a box that satisfies our client in which we can plant. To complete this process we had to go through many many processes. First we had to have a client means a teacher in this building who is willing to have a green design in his or her room. After that we had to get trained in order to use the tools that we need to work in this project like how to cut and glue etc…. Or how we can use the equipments that are in makerspace. And we arranged another appointment with our client to ask or be asked about what was going on and how we are going to place the box there, and the needs of the plants in order to survive.

We also had to work ai different assignment like answering questions or watching videos in order to understand how we can fulfill the desire of our plant.

Our plants need

Soil
Water
Nutrients
And Sunlight to survive. We already build our wood box for our plant. The box will be as I showed in the picture below in order to get sunlight and will be watered by Fanning Mrs. Fanning.

I think their similarity would be being dependent to each other. The box needs to be perfect for supporting the pants to develop and grow. The plants also need to get what it needs like rich soil, sunlight etc……

Nature is the phisical of our world and everything in it. Technology is development, creativity and invention. The relationship would be we act wisely with nature in order to have a good technology. We use like plants, animals, and other sources to have a good technology.

Our group did well in communicating with Ms. Fanning of what plants she desires to have and how we are going to place the box. As well in building the box. We are dedicated to do out best in our project and collaborating in doing that.

Q2 Benchmark Checkpoint 3- Blueprint and Prototype (2).jpg

Q2 Benchmark Green Design

Posted by Vernika Barrow in Botany · Aziz · y1 on Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 11:34 am

What this project is about was creating a useful green design to go in my client, Ms.Moran's room. As we discussed what kind of design would be best we came up with an idea to keep the design simple. I came up with the design by just sketching things and playing around with wood pieces until something worked out nice. The steps I took were finding scrap pieces of wood cutting them with different machines into correct sizes. I next put the pieces together by using wood glue and the nail gun. Last to finish off the project I painted a coat of wood protector on to keep it safe from water damage. . In order for a pant to survive it needs the proper amount of sun light, water, and space. I have made sure this design is capable of given the plants it will hold these resources very easily. The design is very spacey and can hold up to 3 pants cups. It has a lot of open space and slits so that light ca reach the plants and last the piece is water proof. I know this is import because sometimes if plants are not taking care of correctly they can not grow and function the way they have to be healthy. Technology plays a big part and helping nature because with out it we wouldn't be able to create the things plants need in order to survive by a mans hands. I think I did well taking on leadership skills to get the job done. My group could have done better by communicating and taking care of responsibility.

Tower Garden Photo Journal

Posted by Idil Altay in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 10:31 am

This was a nice experience for me. I learned a lot about Tower Gardening and how can it be helpful for all of us and also the environment. With our plants, it was also nice to see how they grow up- especially lettuce. This lesson taught me a lot about the environment and "Tower Gardening". It is really important because in Turkey we haven't got a chance to grow our own plants in the lesson and see how things will work. It is not only about learning something;

it is also about "making" something with your group.

Q2 Land Pollution PSA

Posted by Austin Heng in Environmental Science · Aziz · D on Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 9:50 am

This PSA talks about the potential dangers of littering, illegal dumping and the after effects of when people don’t take care of the environment. There are many different things I see people my age do that I don’t like which is why I chose this particular issue. This PSA is how to get their attention to stop harming the world we live in. My group worked diligently and we made sure we spent as much time as we could perfecting the video. I spent a lot of time thinking of ways I could write the script and made sure I edit the video a certain way, giving the viewer a good presentation. I liked being able to make people laugh at our script

Tower Gardens Photojournal

Posted by Yaseen Thomas in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 12:18 am

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15dWO98KDcwsAreN1qeocFAuNuXXTTgSX7IH4hTpH820/edit?ts=5874e9aa

This tower gardening experience was interesting to me before because this is the first time I was not gardening out in the middle of some got sun digging holes up in the soil and getting my clothes and shows dirty. It was cool to realize you can garden without being in a garden.

Growing for me wasn't that much of an issue because my plant was able to sprout and grow strong without any problems. In unit one we went over our individual ecological footprint and realizing how many earths we all take up to fulfill our everyday activities. In unit two we focused a lot on environmental justice, and also the uses of land and water in Philadelphia. This plays a roll when it comes to gardening in Philadelphia. The thing is that with these tower gardens you can garden anywhere even if that is right in a class room. I learned a lot and It is interesting to see my cucumber plant grow.

Photojournal

Posted by David Wilson in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 11:58 pm

Reflection

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Unit 1: In this unit, I have learned about natural systems and how they are sustained throughout the world. Along the way, I developed a better sense of how different systems bounce off of each other and require different inputs of energy to maintain consistency and health in all systems involved. Specifically, this is in Earth Systems and how each system affects each other and requires the assistance of one another to thrive, like how the biosphere needs the hydrosphere as a source of energy and how the geosphere needs the hydrosphere to stay strong and sustainable for all organisms in the biosphere. Over vast periods of time, these spheres work together to improve upon each other but have diminshed from human inputs.

Unit 2: In this unit, I gained a clear view of what environmental justice is, and how it is centered around defending the environment because of how it affects us in the short/long run and all animals involved. It is about how one group's carelessness in one part of the world will immediately affect another group all the way across the world and will eventually strike them even harder. Humans in particular have a knack of using resources carelessly and refusing to put up efforts to restore such resources. In doing this, many areas across the globe become less sustainable and lose the proper nutrients needed to sustain life there. Ultimately, systems change over time because of the human inputs that affect them and how the each sphere interacts them in response, and finally how each sphere is, once again, diminished and destroyed.

Tower garden photo journal

Posted by Caleb Hughes in Environmental Science · Aziz · D on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 11:49 pm

https://docs.google.com/a/slabeeber.org/presentation/d/1Gu9Fv5BydrQw2g2s6bkjvOenjeuVBA6Cawi0CGFd0N4/edit?usp=sharing

Presentation of our plants over time

I feel like our plants took a lifetime to grow. I think it is because of there is five plants sharing the spot

Photo Journal

Posted by Lucia Idriss in Environmental Science · Aziz · D on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 11:46 pm

What factors affected your garden? The water cycle and atmosphere after our plants and how they grew, for example, our lettuce along with everyone else grew the fastest due to the weather and also because of water cylce it was reviving

What conclusions can you draw based on your observations?

The it will take a while for the rest of the plants such as the basil to grow but for more climate trained plants they will be able to grow much faster

Tower Gardens have helped with my understandings of environmental science by showing me that there are mor than two ways to grow healthy non- gmo/ pesticide filled food around me, and we can actually help out our communities physically and mentally by planting these foods, we can also so polluting the community this way as well.

Tower Gardens Photo Journal.

Posted by Mikayla Brailsford in Environmental Science · Aziz · D on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 11:36 pm

In Environmental Science, as students/explorers, we were encouraged to find our own answers as to why things are the way that they are, and think critically about the conclusions we draw from research.

The course began with us discussing Earth Systems, and Resources. We wanted to not only identify ways that we as humans alter our environment, but try to be more aware of the ecological footprint we leave on this Earth. We talked about how we can make the Earth more sustainable, which still doesn't have a clear and concise answer. We continued the discussion with the topic of environmental justice, and what it means to be environmentally just.

To end the semester, we ended the class by doing a lab which related back to how we can alter the environment by certain factors, and how we can make the Earth more sustainable. The lab consisted of planting our own seeds, taking care of them, and monitoring them on a daily basis, to see if there were certain factors that prevented them from growing as quickly, or factors that enabled them to grow quickly.

The way that we were going to do our garden was in the style of a "Tower Garden". Now, I can be one hundred percent honest and say that before this class, I had never even heard of the term "Tower Garden"; nor seen one or knew how it worked. I can admit that I was ignorant to the world of gardening, but it was only because it never interested me. Tower Gardens, according to their official website are defined as "vertical aeroponic growing systems which allow the gardener to grow up to 20 vegetables, herbs, fruits, and flowers indoors or outdoors." The topic of being able to grow plants, still didn't interest me, but since it was for a grade, I had to do it.

My group, which consisted of Samir Smith, Mark Palmer, Savion Cummings, and myself decided that we would plant sweet basil, cherry tomatoes, peppers, and gourmet lettuce. I didn't want to get my hands too dirty, I decided that I would be the organizer of the group, and keep track of the observations, and organize all of the documents.

As you look at the photos from our photo journal, you will see that our plants didn't grow as much as we wanted them to, but it could just be because we either watered them too much, or we didn't water them enough. It also could have been because we planted our seeds at a later date, so we were behind (because of the class schedule). Based on these observations, I do believe that if everyone planted their seeds on the same day, we would all have similar results, or if we all followed the same routine of watering our plants. However, one additional observation that I made was that we could have damaged our soil, or our seeds prior to planting, so that could have had a major impact on the growth.

As I reflect on this project, one thing that I think I could improve upon was keeping track of the temperature inside of the building during the time we were in class, as well as the temperature outside, and took a ruler to measure the growth of the plants. I do think that this was a fun project to do, and I do believe that tower gardens are a more sustainable way of living because the plants aren't altered in anyway, they're one hundred percent organic, and full of pesticides.

I hope that you enjoy the photo journal below, and hope that you get some type of motivation to go start your own!

https://docs.google.com/a/slabeeber.org/document/d/1-3D7VFucAgl0xfjVCaxTlyFqmQksXzG6ipjLSyhQM9c/edit?usp=sharing

Tower Gardening

Posted by Jason Perez in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 11:33 pm

The Tower Gardening project was a fun and cool experience for me. I enojyed having my own plants to grow, and the whole process of basically gardening was fun. I did not know anything about Tower Gardening before doing this project, so it was interesting to learn about it.

The gardening was a little bit of a tedious process. It took some time for our plants to begin to grow which was a little frustrating. One observation that I personally made was that out of all the plants, the lettuce was the fastest to grow. It seemed like everyone had their own little shrubs of lettuce. Another observation that I made was that the peppers take the longest to grow. It was frustrating for my group because our three other plants were growing except for the peppers. We began to question ourselves if we made a mistake or had done something wrong while planting the seeds. But when we began to look at other groups' peppers, theirs were not growing either. Just today we finally began to see a little green sprouting.

After doing this project, I feel like I have learned more about the environment. I learned how tower gardening can have a positive impact on our environment and is a good way to make a difference in our community by tower gardening. It's not hard at all, and it makes me want to tower garden myself.

Check out our Photo Journal and Observations by clicking on the link below!

https://docs.google.com/a/slabeeber.org/document/d/1TtgXS-8r90CZjSJv2Z8fRFcTbtnzggyEf5SlZXzyvdk/edit?usp=sharing

Me & Jenna Plant Journal

Posted by Wayne Stackhouse in Environmental Science · Aziz · D on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 11:32 pm

Tower Garden_ Seed Starting - Google Docs

I had a great time planting, it was easy because I have a green thumb. But seeing your plants growing everyday and having all your hard work and focus pay off is amazing. Each day I take a picture and observations of the plants and it's great to see each day how my plants have grown. I am glad that I was given this in a class where we want a more environmental Just world.

Tower Garden Photojournal

Posted by Brian Brown in Environmental Science · Aziz · D on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 11:26 pm

THE FACTORS THAT AFFECTED MY GARDEN WAS THE ENVIRONMENT, WATER SUPPLY AND SUNLIGHT. THE CONCLUSIONS I CAN DRAW BASED ON MY OBSERVATION IS THAT DIFFERENT SEEDS GROW AT DIFFERENT NO MATTER HOW CONSISTENT THE SUPPLY OF RESOURCES ARE. THIS TOWER GARDEN SHOWED ME THAT PLANTS CAN GROW AT A VERY FAST PACE WHICH I NEVER KNEW. THIS COURSE HAS GIVEN ME A BETTER OUTLOOK ON THE ENVIRONMENT ITSELF AND HAS HELPED ME SEE THAT THERE IS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO DO THINGS AND THERE'S BARELY A WRONG WAY TO DO THINGS.

https://docs.google.com/a/slabeeber.org/document/d/18FYd_zyP981WXSLj1TreioSBdp7VXiwq05iKzb5SuwU/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1egyNmB2pt5JuiY0vqWYui_PZ4UHGuxQjYp-rUHEWX8A/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Tower Gardening

Posted by Errion Holness in Environmental Science · Aziz · D on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 11:24 pm

Errion, Brian, Lucia, Keya, and Jame

Tower Gardens Photo Journal

Posted by Zoie Jones in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 10:59 pm

Working on the Tower Gardens was a very interesting experience. Before Ms. Aziz's class I didn't even know what a Tower Garden was. I was responsible for growing the peppers in my groups tower garden. The process was very long, but there is currently a sprout appearing.

During the process of growing my peppers in the Tower Garden, I was able to learn about what factors affect the growth of a plant. Sunlight was a big factor for our tower garden. Our sprouts were required to be under artificial light.

Based on my observations, I can conclude that peppers take a long time to grow. My plant was the last to sprout out of all my group. The reason I predicted for this is that these pepper may need to grow for a longer period of time in order to develop the flavor inside of them.

In conclusion, the Tower Garden was an interesting experience. It also helped me step out of my comfort zone being that this is the first time that I have been responsible for growing my own plant.

https://docs.google.com/a/slabeeber.org/presentation/d/1hNKaVkis4y2oDrE6WN1er8wNYkuDPvFO91muAxYdAA4/edit?usp=sharing

Tower Garden Photo Journal

Posted by Anthony Bowden in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 10:58 pm

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15dWO98KDcwsAreN1qeocFAuNuXXTTgSX7IH4hTpH820/edit

While working on this project I didn't know what to expect. I had no clue how to garden, or even the many methods of gardening there are I thought it would be simple. But planting, and caring for a seed requires a lot of work more than I expected. Planting the seeds probably had to be the funniest part of this project. Even though My seed hasn't shown no signs of life yet, but hopefully it will grow soon. My group mates, and classmates their plants have sprouted all over the place. So I think it's cool that not everybody is planting the same seeds,and that there is some variety. I can't wait to see the plants when they've grown even more. I think the tower garden itself is pretty cool too, because this is something we came together as a class to do that will not only affect us but our community, and environment as well. I hope we can continue this project, and expand even more why stop here. This is how we affect our environment in a positive way. Fresh vegetables, and foods can lead to a happy healthier life,and stop the issue of food insecurity. This helps me understand the actions we can take to make the world a better place, the earth is

Tower Gardens Photojournal

Posted by Autumn Green in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 10:47 pm

Autumn Green

Environmental Science

Rockwall Plants:

Marketmore Cucumbers

Peppers

Cherry Tomatoes

Sweet Basil

Day one

In the beginning stages of planting we had a lot of problem with our seeds growing because other plant’s started to sprout faster than ours.

Day two

I think that the sweet basil will sprout first. Which wasn’t the first to sprout, the first was tomato then the basil.

I also think that if we didn't have much vermiculite on top of the seed the would have grew faster.

Day three

The plants the tomatoes were beginning to sprout. I can also predict that the basil will be the next to sprout because the seed was starting to sprout.

Day four

The only two which have started growing is the tomatos and the basil which are continuing to grow. Also still no growth with other two plants.

Day 5

We have not yet transferred any of our plants to the tower garden yet because the basil and tomatoes were not big enough

Day 6

Our basil is starting to sprout up more as well as the tomato plant.

Conclusion

Seeds,water and light and following directions was has an affect on planting, they all have a major role on the effect of plants. The conclusions that I have based on my observations is that plant grows do not grow at the same exact time or pace.

Tower Gardens Photo journal- Indigo H

Posted by Indigo Harris in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 10:37 pm

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hNKaVkis4y2oDrE6WN1er8wNYkuDPvFO91muAxYdAA4/edit#slide=id.g1bbbddd0d6_2_10

At the start of this project I kind of had an idea of how things were going to since i have done gardening things with my grandmother many of times. I was happy that we were doing a project I already had prior knowledge too. That way I could be of better help with my group.

During this project many of my group members doubted my plant and how much it was going to grow. I had lettuce and although it didn't grow as large as other plants, it grew larger than my group and I predicted. So I was relieved in some ways and disappointed in others. I wish we had more time so that we could really see how large our plants would grow.

The best part of the project was probably the photo journal,it allowed us to keep track of everything, and it allowed us to really look at the new changes that was happening to our plants. Overall this was a very fun project , I actually got to see my work come to life

Tower Garden Photo Jounal

Posted by Cameron Lockett in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 10:34 pm

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When it comes to gardening I have done it before, but never like this. It was always the traditional way with my mom. Tower gardening was a whole new experience for me. It was my first real time handling seeds, as my mom used to just transfer over plants with soil to our garden. So it was my first time having something I planted grow. The rock wool process is pretty easy to learn, as rock wool is just kind of a substitute for soil. The real difference in tower gardening was the difference of spheres. As traditional gardening uses the lithosphere as your planting in soil. With soil being out of the picture you instead plant in the air with the tower garden and rock wool. Your plant is mainly using the moisture from the atmosphere and the nutrients you gave it in the rock wool to support itself. Now after using tower gardens for the first time I have to say that they do have a form of Environmental Justice to them. First of all you don't have to worry about damaging soil since you're not using any. Second is that if you get one for a community or classroom everyone can use it. Lastly it doesn't release any carbon emissions and is eco-friendly. In the end tower gardening was a new experience for me and it gave me a new perspective on doing something that you already thought you knew how to do.