Growing Plants With Soda
Growing Plants With Soda
Choosing Our Project
My classmates and I chose our project by first reading a chapter in our science book about plants. Then we chose to grow plants with different substances. Then we came up with twelve different topics, and chose our three favorite ones. We discussed which of the three we would like to do best. Then someone said, "Let's do the one with growing plants with soda."
Getting Our Project Started
Getting our project started took a while, because we had to gather all the supplies. The purpose of this experiment was to see if soda would grow a plant better than water. The materials were
- Six philodendrum plants
- Water
- Sunlight
- Containers to hold the plant
- Labels
- Orange Soda
- Sprite
We used many websites to research photosynthesis and the sodas we used. My hypothesis was that the plant grown with the Sprite would grow the best.
Setting up our experiment was relatively easy. We used the following procedure to set up our experiment.
- Put the plants in the containers and label them, including one of the stems of each plant.
- Measure the height of each labeled stem and record that height.
- Water two plants--orange soda, two plants--Sprite, and two plants--water one ounce every day for two weeks.
- At the end of two weeks, measure the height of each labeled stem and record that height.
- Then compare the heights of the plants.
The results of the experiment were that the water grew the plants the best, then Sprite, then orange soda.
My favorite thing to do during the experiment was water the plants. Also, after the two weeks had ended, I liked to see the results. Some of the things that I didn't like about the experiment was that it took a long time and we didn't have to do very much work. It was fun painting my board though, which turned out beautiful.
My project was seen at the Parish Center on Febuary 15, 2007.Saint Ann School, 446 W. Church St., Ridgecrest, CA 93555. Phone number 760-375-4713.