Tomatosphere Tuesday!

(While dated Wednesday, this post was originally written yesterday - Tuesday, November 15. For some reason (ah, technology!) the post did not publish yesterday afternoon as I had intended it to. My apologies!)

Our seeds are planted and our data collection has begun!

We planted 2 types of tomato seeds - "D" and "F" into peat pots and placed our peat pots into mini greenhouses. We each got to plant 2 seeds from each group of seeds, so 4 seeds in total!
We will make daily observations every day for the next 30 days. Our daily observations will include writing the date, the day of the experiment, the time of the observation, the temperature of the class and
how many seeds from each group have germinated.
It is expected that the seeds will start germinated between days 5 and 7,
meaning we should start seeing tiny stems and leaves as early as Monday!

As the experiment continues, we will discuss the need for collecting this type of data as it pertains to humans colonizing Mars. We will also be discussing the Scientific Method and learning how to: write detailed hypotheses, analyze and graph our collected data and represent our findings in well-written conclusions.

Check out some photos from our morning together!

Getting ready! The peat pot discs are soaking in water so they can expand into small pots perfect for tomato seed planting!

Here are the tomato seeds. Can you see any difference between the two seeds?

Cheese! We are planting our tomato seeds! This is SO fun!

All seeds are now planted and the pots have been placed into mini-greenhouse trays.
The trays will remain covered until the first seeds have started to germinate.