My name is Angelina Taing. I was born in San Jose, California and I've lived in different areas San Jose all of my life.

I haven't really gardened before, but i've helped family friends plant flowers in their backyard. I remember that you had to find a certain spot for the flowers depending on the type of flower. Some flowers needed a lot of sunlight, others needed few sunlight. My grandmother is someone who plants very much. In her backyard she has apple trees, mints, persimmons, cactus, and many other plants. She had a regular watering schedule for each season. After the fruit you planted and are done growing the best part is finally getting to eat them.

About

About Our Project

The Story of the Seed project is a project with Mr. Bursch's 9th grade students. In this project each group will receive a specific seed in which they will conduct a experiment with. The students will observe and record the plant as it grows. Our group planted and watered them with different types of water. After that, we will plant the successful seeds in the garden. From there, we will take care of and keep track of our plants throughout the year.

Introduction: The Story of the Seed is a year long project that students will work on with our classmates in groups. In this ninth grade honors biology project we will watch the growth of a domestic vegetable, in our case we are recording the growth of four broccoli plants. We are not only studying how these plants are growing, but how we grow them. On September 2, 2014 we planted broccoli seeds into four different containers, each one containing nine seeds. We decided that we would study how different types of water impact how big the plants grow. Our group, consisting of five ninth graders, determined we would water the plants with carbonated` water, filtered Brita water, bottled water, and we are watering the control group plant with tap water. We have started growing these plants in class for two weeks today on the eleventh of September, 2014 our plants will be planted in the outside school garden and watered with the same waters to see how the plants will grow in a expanded growing area.

Purpose: Our purpose is to see which water is more effective in growing the plants. This means we are studying which type of water (carbonated, filtered Brita, bottled, and tap) are most efficient in making the plants grow tall and be healthy.

Independent Variable: Different Types of Water

Dependent Variable: Plant Growth

Hypothesis: We believe that if we water our plants with different types of water it will affect their growth.

What we think will do the best

1. Bottled Water
2. Filtered Water
3. Tap Water
4. Carbonated Water

We chose this as our hypothesis because we thought that clear water with nothing in it, like bottled water, would not give a poorly affect on our plant. Next is filtered, that also contained little contaminates, then tap, our control, then carbonated.

Materials:

1. Tap Water   
2. Filtered Water
3. Bottled Water
4. Carbonated Water
5. Broccoli Seeds
6. Pots
7. Potting Soil

Control: The control for our experiment is a plant that is being watered with 100mL of tap water.

Procedure:

1) Make sure soil amount is equal in a containers.

2) Distribute nine seeds per each of our four containers.

3) Water the plants individually with one hundred milliliters of their assigned water brand.

4) Place watered plants in a spot where they would all receive equal amounts of sunlight.

5) Water the plants every week on the same day with the same amount of water.

Graph:

Results:

	Filtered	Carbonated	Tap	Bottled
Day 6	7 cm	6.5 cm	6.5 cm	7.5 cm
Day 11	9.7 cm	10 cm	10 cm	9.5 cm

Conclusion: The plant watered with carbonated and tap  water grew the tallest and the plant watered with bottled water grew the least. Our hypothesis was incorrect because the carbonated water had turned out to grow the most when we had thought it would grow the least. We had thought the bottled water would grow the tallest but turned out to be the shortest.

Discussion: Or group project did work out rather successfully, in the sense that we have completed the project, but this group effort could’ve gone better. We started our project a couple days later than we could’ve had, so we could have had more data and results by now. Our group also did not research on the plant type so we did not obtain additional information that might have been useful. Another issue we faced was when one of the plants fell out of its container along with the soil that was in the pot, hopefully the broccoli seedling’s growth will not be affected by this accident.  Otherwise, all else went well with this experiment.

My name is Sam Friedman. I was born in San Francisco California, but I moved to San Jose when I was two.

I have never had a full on garden before, but my family and I have always had huge amounts of flowering plants in our backyard that we all work on, even though my mom does most of the work.  My family also has a fig tree and an orange tree.  We get fruit from these every year.  We also grow many herbs that we like to cook with.  I like to help my mom cook and sometimes I do it by myself.  I like using my own food in cooking and I will continue to do so.

Hi, my name is Emily Eide (say: A-D). I grew up in San Jose, California with my father and in Los Banos, California with my mother. I have moved all around San Jose and the bay area, Oakland, Hayward, Concord, Fremont, the Santa Teresa District, and then the Willow Glen district. I've lived in thirteen different houses, apartments, and duplexes. Moving around with my separated family with only my grandparents and aunts as my extended family was quite an adventure. 

I haven't grown much, plant-wise, I've grown carrots, strawberries, apples, peas, peppermint, and bell peppers. It was really interesting growing these vegetables and fruits considering my family and I forget about mostly everything including watering these plants. These plants ended up dying very quickly.

One person that I think has a lot of expertise in gardening from home is an eighteen year old named Emma. Emma is in college and is able to grow different types of fruits and vegetables in her dorm. She also spends her summer working at the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose working with kids on an environmental team. That team goes out to places such as Our City Forest and Don Edwards.  Her dedication to the environment inspires me and she is an amazing role model.  

My name is Eddie Negrete. I was born in Sacramento,Ca and moved to San Jose,CA. I barely ever garden, but my grandpa likes to teach me whenever he can. The plants I have grown are pumpkins, watermelon, and tomatoes. I remember that it was hard to consistently remember to water the plants. My grandpa teachers me a lot about farming because he is very experienced. He teaches me about when to plant which plants, and how to plant seeds.

My name is Marc Welch. I live in San Jose, California. I have grown all sorts of different foods with my grandpa, like pumpkin, tomatoes, apples, grapes, chiles, strawberries, act. I think my grandpa and grandma know a lot about gardening, and cooking.