Blog entry 4

It’s over, the experiment has finished  there are a total of 143 plants still alive. Many have died in the past weeks. The majority of our science club predict that the blue packet seeds were on the International Space Station, but we have no evidence to back us up. The ones that grew, grew tall. We are very proud of our seeds and looking forward to research our next experiment and hope it will be as exciting as this one.

This is Science club over and out.  

Which seedlings have come from Space?

Blog Entry 3
We have continued to water and turn the seedlings according to the timetable in the Rocket Science Experiment pack.  We measured the seeds today to see which had grown the most.  The tallest from the red packet was number 98 with 65mm. The biggest blue one was number 45 with a measurement of 87mm. Yesterday, was day twenty-one of the experiment. There are only fourteen days left. At the moment the blue seeds are growing better, but that doesn’t mean that they stayed on Earth!

They're Alive!

Blog Entry 2
They’re alive! The majority of seeds have grown and some have even
grown their first true leaves. 42% of the blue seeds have grown and 58% of the red ones have. We are still unsure to which packet of seeds went to space as they seem to be growing at equal rates. We share the task of watering the seeds between the six of us and with Mr Mathias's class.

Blog Entry One

On 2nd of September 2015, two kilograms of rocket seeds travelled on the Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. The seeds were stored in a microgravity environment by Tim Peake, the first official British astronaut.

These seeds were given out to schools, clubs and Scout groups across the country to be grown and measured. 200 seeds were given out to each one of the 10,000 educational organisations in two packets, a red and a blue. One has been to space and the other has stayed on Earth. We were lucky enough to be given a packet. This blog will show our seeds’ progress through the time that the experiment is running.