Record all information or data you have about the growing conditions of your plants, for instance you can take readings of the daily temperature, humidity and light.
The more readings you take, the better your information will be for analysing your investigation results and drawing conclusions for your research paper / poster.
Describe these conditions in detail, so we can understand what your measurements were about.
Ideally, everyone should conduct the research under the same conditions but it is difficult to maintain the same temperature, humidity or lighting levels across all the schools in New Zealand. To be able to make a comparison between all the seeds grown in schools, it is a very good idea to write down as much as you can about your particular conditions.
All collected data should be recorded regularly in a personally designed data logbook or using a data sheet.
The following are basic characteristics that you may choose to observe, measure, and record for your seeds
#きょうのバジル 24日目。きょうはうえからもかんさつしたよ。はっぱが太陽電池パネルみたいにおおきく広がってるのがわかるね! #Spacebasil Day24 Leaves are just like #SolarArray of #ISS! pic.twitter.com/2s005Pbm5r
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The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) AHiS Project team is looking for the following data:
You will compare growth such as stem length, leaf size, leaf color and number of leaves. At the end of the 30 days, we will also look at the glandular hair cells on the back of leaves, and count them.
Let’s find out how these are different from the sweet basil grown on the ISS.
What is the difference between under the ISS environment and your experiment conditions? These differences may significantly affect the results of growth experiment.
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What will change when you change these?
Furthermore, you can try different conditions on the ground to find the more suitable conditions for the growth of sweet basil, such as changing the plant box, fertiliser’s concentration, and the number of seeds sown in the plant box.
You can either write a report or produce an electronic poster of your experiment.
Here is what we require from you:
The structure of a general experiment report is as follows:
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