jueves, 15 de marzo de 2012

Seeds Project

Hello! We are excited to share our exciting seeds project with you! Since January, the 6th year students have been working with Teresa and Natalie (our language assistant) to study and compare seeds from America and Catalunya.

Natalie, who is from the United States, has brought a sample of seeds from her grandparent´s farm in the state of South Carolina, where they have been farming the land for over two centuries. This is a unique opportunity for the students, because they are learning about seeds and plants from a different region of the world. Some of the seeds that they are studying are the Henderson Lima beans, the Siberian Kale, and the Wakefield Cabbage.

In order to compare the American and Catalan seeds, we have been studying how the seeds grow in a pinecone ecosystem. Initially, we observed how the pinecones reacted to water. We saw that as the pinecones remained in water for a long period of time, the pinecones closed. However, if the pinecone are out in the open air, they stay open. Upon realizing this, we decided to put the seeds in the dry pinecones and observe and investigate what would happen.

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