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Tower Garden Photo Journal

Posted by Samir Smith in Environmental Science · Aziz · D on

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This project has been very meaningful to this group. We have been able to care for and watch plants grow as if they were our children. We literally checked on them everyday to see if they were growing. Our plants didn't grow as much as other groups but we tried. Factors that may have affected the growth of our plants could have been over watering, not enough sunlight, too much or too little vermiculite or they were just growing very slowly. The conclusions from these factors and this project that we can draw are to make sure that we place our plants in perfect or close to perfect conditions so that they are fit to grow and grow healthy at that. This project has really been amazing and we would love to do it again. We will still check in everyday to make sure that our plants are doing well

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-3D7VFucAgl0xfjVCaxTlyFqmQksXzG6ipjLSyhQM9c/edit


Q2 Land Pollution PSA

Posted by Austin Heng in Environmental Science · Aziz · D on

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

Photo Journal

Posted by Lucia Idriss in Environmental Science · Aziz · D on

​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

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

Me & Jenna Plant Journal

Posted by Wayne Stackhouse in Environmental Science · Aziz · D on

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

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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 Gardens Photojournal

Posted by Md Uddin in Environmental Science · Aziz · D on

What factors affected your garden? What conclusions can you draw based on your observations?
The factor that affected my garden is that the less of an sun or too much of an water on two of my plant that are not grow any sign of roots or anything or it could be bad seed that we planted. The conclusions that I can inference in that When I was researching about tower garden, I noticed that they said growing in a medium rock-wool, which could provides plants with oxygen and consistent moisture, encouraging rapid, healthy growth. I noticed that when we plant the seed last week, we plant the seed in wet rock-wool and then we had to add extra water to the side, having extra water will it affect the the roots of the plants?
 Question: Which procedure is healthier, planting seeds on the outside garden or planting seed in tower garden?
The tower garden is healthy environmental production food sever because you can grow your own food in the house if you don't have enough space in garden or you don't want to get messy outside, It's good for people who are not able to make change in outside, they could use tower garden at home to produce healthy food. My understanding of Earth as a system is that we have a "Photosynthesis" is the process by which plants, some bacteria, and some protistans use the energy from sunlight to produce sugar, which cellular respiration converts into ATP, the "fuel" used by all living things.
Tower Gardens Photojournal

Tower Gardens Photojournal

Posted by Keya Ghosh in Environmental Science · Aziz · D on

​Keya Ghosh
February 2, 2017
Environmental Science

Photo-journal:

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Conclusion:

During the project, I often have talked with my group discussions and encouraged to seek feedback from my group members about our work. The water cycle and atmosphere after our plant they grew, for example, our lettuce and cucumber along with everyone else grew the faster due to the weather and also because of water cycle it was reviving. After we have collected and analyzed our data what we have done so far, and analyze our experimental methods challenge. Working in small groups, we have a support from each other in our observation data collection and analysis to refine and strengthen their scientific arguments. Also,  We worked toward a culminating event during which is we can interact next time with adults acting as members of the community, such as an urban planner, environmental engineer,  scientist, and farmer. We also can say that to them that will work to these community members they might be able to use the Tower Garden to address issues in their local and global communities. Because it’s lots easier than doing another process. Based on this Tower Garden doing in our classroom team. I think we more eager to try vegetables. I feel like it gives us more ownership of our food system. Once we know how to grow food,  we do what we have to do. I can’t wait to see how is grow bigger. It seems to me our team love to taste vegetables and herbs from the Tower Garden in our classroom community.  In our observation, we  should have on our planet and  we also waiting for our vegetables that how quickly we get to eat the vegetables. How great it is to learn so early that we can easily grow the really nutritious and delicious foods our bodies need to be strong and healthy! I love to take care all of our plans also we love our Tower Garden.  We will get applied for a school salad bar to use our fresh produce next time. It will take little while for the rest of our plants such as the basil, paper, and eggplant to grow but for more climate trained plants they will be able to grow much faster. Tower Gardens have helped with my understanding of environmental science by showing me that there are more than two ways to grow pesticide filled food around us, 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.


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