Garden Cleanup Round 4

This round of garden cleanup, I did many things around the campus and in the school garden.  The main things that I worked on were weeding, both in the garden and the student parking lot, but also helping other students out with their own special ESLP project.  The jobs I did could be summed up as minor cleaning but also helping construct the foundation of a new addition to the school garden.

The first job that I did that was where I spent most of my time on was getting rid of the weeds in the center part of the student parking lot.  The middle area of the student parking lot has gone through a lot of changes of the course of many years.  A while back a bunch of students planted plants in the centerpiece of the parking lot as a part of their ESLP project.  Since then, the plants have grown a lot but also caused a lot of weeds or smaller plants to grow in the same area of land.  So me, along with other students, got rid of a bunch of the weeds in the area as shown in the pictures below.  There was a lot to get rid of including some trash.  This job was only temporary and eventually, some other students will have to redo the job.  Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures in the main garden, but I was able to remove a large portion of the weeds that were close by the plants from the Story of the Seed projects.

The other main job that I did was helping partners with a new addition to the garden.  The objective was to add a pathway along the side of the shed to get behind the shed and to other parts of the garden a little bit easier than before.  The first step of their project was dig out a pathway and to level the ground to add a gravel or some material to form the final product.  My help involving trimming the ground to make as level as possible.  The end of that step is shown below.

Overall, I did a good amount of work not only in the garden, but on other areas of the school campus.  The pathway behind the shed will remain a permanent part of the school garden.  However, next year there will have to be other students to redo the weeding.

4th Quarter Garden Cleanup Ana M

 Hi, My name is Ana Montero and I am in 6th Period Biology and this is the summary of my Garden Cleanup experience for my 4th quarter E.S.L.P Project. I chose to do Garden Cleanup as it has been enjoyable the last couple of times and I like making the school look nicer, especially the gardens themselves. I split my time between two days, Wednesday the 16th and Thursday the 17th. 

 For Day One of my time I cut weeds and picked up trash with a small group at one of the gardens between us and the Middle School. At first we started off slowly, as the day was warmer than most of us expected but then we kicked it up a notch and started pulling weeds faster. One of the people in the group accidentally pulled out a tree sapling that looked like a very large weed. It was not a good start to the afternoon but we pushed through and made it through the day with two buckets of weeds and one bucket of trash.

 For the second day I spent the afternoon cleaning up a small rectangle patch near the math wing with two other people and refilling it with new mulch. Not a lot happened compared to the first day, we kept finding spiders and roly-polys and having to carefully relocated them to the new garden without dropping them or getting bit by a spider. We finished just in time to go home.

 Our first finished bucket

 Two buckets down

Three Buckets!!!

ESLP Garden Cleanup Round 4

For my final ESLP project of the year in Mr. Bursch's Honors Biology class, I decided to help out our school garden by helping cleanup the plants in the center of our student parking lot. With only a bucket and some shovels, I managed to make some great progress in cleaning up dead plants as well as picking up litter disposed on the soil.  I did so two weeks ago on Wednesday and Thursday with my fellow classmates.

5/16- During this day our teacher set us into to groups and sent us on our way to different locations in the garden or around the school to clean-up. He sent me and three of my classmates to the center of the student parking lot to clean up all of the trash and dead plants on the soil and around the larger plants in the center. Once there, we did a quick cleaning up and threw away all of the trash that was in our way. Next we took out our shovels and dug out little plants that were affecting our much larger and older plants that we wanted to keep because of how great they looked. Also because they were in a perfect spot and we would not want any other plants growing off of it to make it look almost gross. Finally we realized that this certain plant needed no water because it is meant for high heat and that made our job a lot easier.

5/17- Second day of our garden clean-up adventure. I got back into my same group and area and just went to work with cleaning anything that I could to make our spot look perfect. Mr Bursch came out and checked on us to see if we were doing the right thing and noticed that we should get really into the thick of the plant even though we were frightened by the bees....In conclusion this round of ESLP was not only fun to help keep our school looking "Shiny" but also was a great experience as I felt closer with my school and my garden.

Here are some pictures of our garden clean-up.......

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1)The anatomy of the Brassica oleracea that shows the most variation are the leaves because when the plant starts to sprout the leaves grow, the leaves grow in different shapes and sizes depending on the plant.

2) There are all different vegetables that are all products of artificial selection Brassica oleracea. Possible mutations for a Brassica Oleracea can happen by soaking a seed in 5% EtOH, seed extractions for 48 hours. Natural selection is thought as "the survival of the fittest". When a new plants grows it carries some of the traits from the parent offspring 

3)The anatomy of the Brassica oleracea that seems to be the same are the leaves they aren't identical but they're similar.They're different plants in the garden but they're leaves are similar for each plant.I think this because if you look at the garden the there's different plants but the leaves that go with that plant are similar to each other.

4) The plant breeders wouldn't really have to do anything order to find the anatomy ( leaves) the leaves are clearly visible when looking at the plant because its on the outside of the plant and they're big enough to be seen.

chicken coop clean-up

On Thursday lizette and I started off by cleaning the container that the chickens grew up in,we refilled they're water tank,and scooped up their poop up.Later on Friday we went back and Adam came along and helped scoop up the mulch so we can put it in the chicken coop. Lastly, we came back Tuesday and finished putting in the mulch and setting it down and we cleaned the chicken bed. 

Garden Cleanup Round 4 -Nick Fordyce

           For my ESLP Project the 4th time around I did Garden Cleanup again. This time we were instructed to pull weeds and basically cleanup up the parking lot garden. I did this the first day for about a hour and got some pretty productive work done as you can see in the project. The second day we did the same because we were yet to finish the work on the first day. After the second day the garden looked very good and close to spotless. What I learned from this time around is how to properly clean up the garden with taking out the weeds and cleaning up the trash and other stuff. These pictures above show the progress and the starting position made from this project.

BioSite

During the first day of teaching our group (like most) had a slow start with the first rotation of fourth graders. It was the same as the last biosite last semester. After a few minutes we managed to break though to the fourth graders during the ICE BREAKER that Heydi came up with. Emily had used a similar game with the forth graders last semester. After the icebreaker we passed the photos of the pollinators around to the fourth graders and asked what was one thing that they found similar. They had come up with many different similarities, but the main thing we where looking for was the fact that the pollen was stuck to the pollinators. We then asked them about the things that they already knew about pollinators. After they gave us a few facts we transitioned the conversation over to the flowers. After a few minutes of flowers we brought out the flowers and gave each fourth grader a flower to break apart and find the different parts of the flowers. While they where breaking up the flowers Natalia and I switched on the microscopes and Heydi opened up the poster she made. After they where done ripping up the their flowers we had them look at the poster and name the different parts of the flower that they ripped open.After each of them named the different parts of their flower we had them take turns looking through the microscopes to take a closer look at what they had done. Each group went like this throughout the first day of teaching, all but the introduction. We where able to better go through the icebreaker WAY more smoothly.
During the second day of teaching Heydi and Natalia couldn't make it to teach, so Alias was moved to my group to help me teach. Things went the same way as the first day with all but one group . We had used the same icebreaker that my group used during the first teaching day. Anyway during one of the groups we had a minor......Bullying problem. A few of the girls started teaming up against one girl, who seemed VERY exited about BioSite and couldn't seem to stop talking about it.