Plants in Space

Meet the team!

Adele RESULTS MONITOR

TYana - TECHNICIAN

Meet the team!

Evie TEAM LEADER

Rosie PUBLICITY MANAGER

Whats our idea?

We decided to focus on light
Our Aim - to find out if the colour of the light
would affect the growth of the plant.

Photosynthesis
Key theme of the project plants
photosynthesising to help the
astronauts in space.

Why we focused on
plant growth in different
lights.
It interested us!
Research told us that it would be an
effective way to grow plants.
We have previous knowledge
of which lights plants absorb.

EQUIPMENT
Blue and red acetate.
Cress seeds
Soil
Plastic tubs
Seed trays
Lamp
Pipettes

Did we succeed?
We did the experiment twice, to
double check our results.

3 is the magic number.

(3 times is always best!)
Control variable

Our results

Our results

Advancing our experiment

Test on different plants.

Continue using blue light.
Control the control variable more tightly.

Some examples of what we

would use

Kal
e
Buckwheat

So how did we
advance our
investigation?

Same experiment

Same control variab

ew independent variable

Light intensity
We used a
smart phone
app to
monitor light
intensity
under all
three boxes.

Average number of kale grown

KALE

1.24 lux

2.48 lux

Colour of filter

1.17 lux

Average number of buckwheat grown

BUCKWHEAT

1.24 lux

2.48
lux

Colour of filter

1.17 lux

Average number of cress grown

CRESS
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
clear
1.24 lux

blue
2.48 lux

Colour of filter

red
1.17 lux

PROBLEMS WITH
OUR RESULTS
Plants left in different positions
Buckwheat needed different conditions to grow
Couldnt get accurate readings with
measurements
Couldnt control temperature

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 Just concentrated on
Cress.
Left the plants in the
same positions with the
same light intensity.
Same number of seeds
in each tray.

Ba c k

To

B a s i c s

Back To Basics
Average number of cress grown

14

12

10

0
clear

blue

Colour of filter

red

Bibliography
Controlling Plant Growth. BBC Bitesize. [online]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/a
dd_gateway_pre_2011/living/controlplantgrowthrev
1.shtml
Red and Blue Light effects on plants. eHow. [online]
http://www.ehow.com/info_7930505_red-blue-lighteffects-plants.html
Growing cress. GrowVeg.com [online]
http://www.growveg.com/growblogpost.aspx?
id=307
The Truth About Kale. WebMD. [online]
http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/kale-nutritionand-cooking
10 Health Benefits of Buckwheat. Care2. [online]
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/10-health-

Danke frs Zuhren!

(thank you for listening!)