My crystal garden & my data analysis

Day 1

Ok we have made the garden and we have put  the different solutions  in the gardens now we need to wait for the crystal to grow
hear are some of the steps i did to make my garden
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step 4

And you have to wait for the final product  while the crystal grow but i can show my coler map.

To grow my crystal I used  the salt solution, boron, the sugar solution, NH4H2Po4 and magnesium salt
 I think the boron will grow fastest and the sugar solution will grow slowest. I think my tree that is socking i the sugar solution will grow faster then the some of the other that are not socking in a solution.


day 2
Not much changed today but I am seeing some crystals grow on the clay.

day5
I did not see many changes today. Since a lot of my crystals were not growing, I decided to make a tinfoil cup and filled it with one and a half cups of solution.  I put two big curled pipe cleaners into the solution.  Hopefully, they will soak up the solution and grow crystals.  Also, on my cardboard tree I see little crystals forming.  Last Thursday, I put my crystal garden against the heater hoping that the heat would help the crystals grow.  Unfortunately, the heat dried up the clay under the dirt in my garden and made a big crack in my garden.  I hope to see more crystals in my garden tomorrow.


 day 7

When i looked at my garden to day i was happy to see that the crystals on my card board tree are still growing. there are some little cryatals starting to grow in the pipe cleaners. i am looking forward to seeing what has change in my garden tomorrow

day 13

I went to look at my garden   because i have not seen it in a while.I was wondering how my salt solution was growing in my in foil bole of pipe clears. the pipe cleaners looked so fuzzy but when i touched them it was spike and hard.I saw that the crystal where growing on the tin foil and the pipe clears. It looks so cool. cant wait to see my garden  tomorrow


Day 17

 when i looked at my garden today i saw that there was crystal  growing in my little table. i have must have drop a drop of  solution on the little table by accident. but it did grow well. the pip cleaner crystal are still growing slow but still growing. My cardboard tree is also still growing but not by much. I cant wait to see my garden tomorrow. till then 




       How Do Crystals Grow Data Analysis
For the last couple weeks, my 6^th grade class has been growing crystal gardens.  I found that for my garden the salt solution grew the best crystals on pipe cleaners.  The pipe cleaners were in a tin foil cup filled with the salt solution.  The pipe cleaners absorbed the salt solution and over a week and a half it grew hard crystals.  When I tried to take the pipe cleaners out of the tin foil, it turned out that the crystals grew the best on the bottom of the pipe cleaner close to the tin foil.  I found that the sugar crystals grew the slowest for my garden but they still grew.  In my garden, I grew magnesium sulfate solution crystals on my clay.  These grew on my clay flowers in two days.  They grew the fastest.  This was the easiest solution to grow crystals for my garden.  The slowest crystals to grow in my garden were the sugar solution crystals.  It was supposed to grow on my pipe cleaner but instead the sugar harden maybe because my garden being on the heater.  In conclusion, I found that for the crystals to grow faster and better putting the crystals near heat may help.  Also, not all solutions grow on all surfaces.  Looking at some of my classmates gardens, I saw that they used the same solutions in different ways on different things.   Some of their crystals grew well and some did not.  I observed some people who used cotton swabs, which some solutions grew well on and some did not.  Therefore, it seems to me that the type solution is most important in growing crystals.  

                              Here are some solutions that we used to make our gardens.

·         Borax

·         nacl (salt)

·         magnesium sulfate

·         sugar water

·         Epsom salt

                

        Now here is a picture of the crystals we grew in a cup.

 

My Dynamic Earth post Reflection

I think i did good on my dynamic earth post. I certainly learn a lot about caves, rocks and mining , the inner earth, diamonds and last but not least volcano's. In my post I had some questions about some of the topics above that my teacher gave me and my class  and then i answers them in bullet points. I think in my post i could have added a better ending sentence but other than that i think i did okay.

Dynamic Earth

This week we have been learning about the dynamic earth.  We looked at caves and how they work, rocks and mining, plate tectonics, the inner earth, and earth’s structure.  During the last couple of days, I have learned a lot about rocks and mining and the layers of the earth.  Did you know that the United States uses about 3 billion tons of crushed stone, sand, and gravel a year?  That is a lot of rocks.   Another cool fact I learned is that the inner core of the earth is hotter than the surface of the sun.  Wow that is very hot!

Down below I will tell you the questions and answers to some of the interesting information we learned this week.

T he Inner Earth

§  What are the layers of the earth?

The layers of the earth are the crust, upper mantle, lower mantle, outer core and the inner core.

§  What are the layers earth like inside?

Rocks and liquid magma move around inside the earth’s layers.  It is very hot in the inner earth, especially in the core.

§  What do meteorites tell us about space?

They tell us about how our solar system came to be.

§  How do diamonds grow?

Diamonds are formed by the high pressure deep inside the earth.

§  Where are diamonds found?

Diamonds are found under cratons, which are the oldest parts of continents.

§  How do diamonds get to the Earth’s surface?

Rising magma from the inner earth carries diamonds to the surface of the Earth.

Rocks and Mining

§  Where do rocks come from?  

Rocks come from the earth’s crust.

§  How are rocks formed?  

Most rocks are formed out of magma and some other rocks are formed from organic sediment. Erosion, volcanoes and the movement of the tectonic plates are common ways that rocks can form.

§  Why are there so many different rocks and colors?

Rocks are made of minerals.   These minerals come together in many different ways to form all kinds and colors of rocks.

§  What is a mine?

Mines are deposits of rocks and minerals.  There are underground mines and mines on the surface of the earth.

§  What do we get from mines?

Mines provide the raw materials needed for our modern society to work.

And that is some of the cool information we learned this week. I hope you enjoy.

                              Bibliography

http://www.mnh.si.edu/earth/main_frames.html

http://www.wikipedia.org/

Dynamic Earth

This week we have been learning about the dynamic earth.  We looked at caves and how they work, rocks and mining, plate tectonics, the inner earth, and earth’s structure.  During the last couple of days, I have learned a lot about rocks and mining and the layers of the earth.  Did you know that the United States uses about 3 billion tons of crushed stone, sand, and gravel a year?  That is a lot of rocks.   Another cool fact I learned is that the inner core of the earth is hotter than the surface of the sun.  Wow that is very hot!

Down below I will tell you the questions and answers to some of the interesting information we learned this week.

T he Inner Earth

§  What are the layers of the earth?

The layers of the earth are the crust, upper mantle, lower mantle, outer core and the inner core.

§  What are the layers earth like inside?

Rocks and liquid magma move around inside the earth’s layers.  It is very hot in the inner earth, especially in the core.

§  What do meteorites tell us about space?

They tell us about how our solar system came to be.

§  How do diamonds grow?

Diamonds are formed by the high pressure deep inside the earth.

§  Where are diamonds found?

Diamonds are found under cratons, which are the oldest parts of continents.

§  How do diamonds get to the Earth’s surface?

Rising magma from the inner earth carries diamonds to the surface of the Earth.

Rocks and Mining

§  Where do rocks come from?  

Rocks come from the earth’s crust.

§  How are rocks formed?  

Most rocks are formed out of magma and some other rocks are formed from organic sediment. Erosion, volcanoes and the movement of the tectonic plates are common ways that rocks can form.

§  Why are there so many different rocks and colors?

Rocks are made of minerals.   These minerals come together in many different ways to form all kinds and colors of rocks.

§  What is a mine?

Mines are deposits of rocks and minerals.  There are underground mines and mines on the surface of the earth.

§  What do we get from mines?

Mines provide the raw materials needed for our modern society to work.

And that is some of the cool information we learned this week. I hope you enjoy.

Bibliography

http://www.mnh.si.edu/earth/main_frames.html

http://www.wikipedia.org/

What I learnds this week

This week in science we learned about the caves and the earths structure. The mane thing I found interesting  was there are only 4 layers in earth. The 4 are the crust, mental, outer core and the core. I would think there would  be more. I would like to know how people know what is in the earth.something I all so found interesting was that the earths core temp is 1,500 c  and the mental is 1,200 c. The most interesting thing I learned about  caves was that the cave s grow stag-tights  an stag-mights and how they by  water dripping. I wonder why that happens. I all so found interesting that caves can be under water . I would like to know about  more about how volcano erupt and why they erupt and  why  do animals that can see live caves. and that is what I learned in since this week and what i learned more about.

cooling Race lab reflection

On this lab I think I did well because my group worked well together. I think we had accurate data that made sense  and  showed that my hypothesis was correct. Although i could have improved my data analysis in my write up. Other then that I think i did good 

Making water wetter lab reflection

On this lab I think I did good.  I could have had a better hypothesis. It was very short. I also need to work on recognizing the problem and research.  Other then that  I think I did a good job. I learned a lot from this lab like how much a liquid a coin can hold and what surface tension means.