Lauren's Story of the Seed by Clare Robke

My team and I have had a very interesting and enlightening experience growing our own plant for The Story of the Seed, so I was very excited to get the chance to talk to Lauren and hear about her own team's experiences. The first topic we discussed was what Lauren learned from growing her broccoli plant. She said that the biggest thing she learned was about all the different variables that must be considered when growing a plant and how the growing process differs depending on what you are trying to grow. For example, if they planted their seeds too close to those of another team, their plant would have some pretty stiff competition for resources such as sunlight, space, and water. Something that amazed Lauren was, during her team's experiment they conducted prior to planting their seeds in the class planter box, how fast the seedlings from her control group grew. Something that both surprised and saddened her was that the seeds being watered with Dr. Pepper didn't grow at all. Although, she did agree that this probably shouldn't have surprised her as much as it did. When asked what made her team pause and think, Lauren explained how her team had to come up with a watering schedule for their plants so that their experiment would work successfully without having more than one variable. Finally, asked Lauren if their was something in particular that had made her and/or her teammates laugh during the experience. She didn't need more than a second to recall the one thing that made her crack up more than anything, which was when one of her teammates, Amanda, pretended to eat their plant. Altogether, Lauren described how she has had a very enjoyable time throughout her Story of the Seed experience and has learned a lot of valuable information.

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