Friday, May 15, 2009

Our Terrariums in science class

In science class my partner and I made a terrarium. this is what it looked like.To make the Terrarium we put soil in the plastic container, we dug small holes with our fingers in the soil, we put different seeds in the holes, covered them, and watered them. The seeds we had was corn, pea, radish, clover, and barley seeds. To keep it watered, we put a plastic rap over the tub so when the water turned into water vapor, it could not escape the tub.

Some environmental factors we used to help our plants grow faster were by putting the terrarium by the window so it will have sunlight to grow, and we watered it so the seeds can be activated.

After some days we looked in the container and saw that the pea plants looked taller, and greener. We came to the conclusion that the pea plant grows better in this type of environment. Also we saw that the clover plant grew the worst in our terrarium

Later we made another experiment using Darkling beetles and isopods. After the experiment we put whatever creatures that were still alive in the tub. which was one darkling beetle. of course it died pretty quickly. after that we took this picture of our terrarium... Out of our whole class, there was probably about 2 bug survivors.Maybe it would be best if darkling beetles and isopods didn't live in a plastic tub.