need some background on plant and  develop a hypothesis?
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How about an experiment to see whether talking to a house plant really stimulates its growth. Is it the words or is it the carbon dioxide from his breath?\n\nYou need two sets of plants that are identical. You need one to be exposed (by loudspeaker) to the sound of his words and the other to have him up close and breathing on it while talking.
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I apologize but all that i can come up with is one.\n\nYou could raise fruit flies (Drosphila) and relate them to Gentics. i.e. punnet sqaures, Gregory Mendel, common characteristics, principle of dominance and recessiveness, etc.\n\nif you would like me to go further into detail about this project, please e-mail me at \n\nthe_lonley_kender@yahoo.com or send me an IM on Yahoo! at the_lonley_kender or on AIM at  thelonleykender
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study the food chain.
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I used to judge high school level science projects, so here is what I would like to see:\n1. Make an observation about something that you want to try to explain or figure out. Why does this happen? That is the basic question you are going to answer. It doesn't have to be earth-shattering, but it helps if the answer is not already known to everyone. Floating Diet Coke and Coke cans to see which is denser is perhaps an interesting experiment, but hardly difficult to predict. Using coffee filters to do paper chromatography to separate compounds can be ingenious and dramatic, especially if you find something to test that is a real problem like detecting some sort of carcinogen in food. \n \n2. Research the project. Check in the library and on the internet for possible research that has been done similarly to your problem. Even if it has been done, you might want to retest the answer that other researchers got. Make a list of your research results as your references. Your ideas might change in this stage.\n\n3. Form a hypothesis about what you think will happen. You can have more than one. Your project should be able to be tested by an experiment. \n \n4. Design your experimental procedure. Write it out. Figure out what the variables are in your experiment and try to test only one of them at a time. Keep all the other variables constant. You can change the other variables to see the change in the effect of one variable on another variable. \n\n5. Record your data as you do the experiment. Keep lots of notes so that someone who wants to see your records can see what you have done. \n\n6. Do some calculations with your results. Make a graph, tables, and draw conclusions. \n\n7. Summarize it and state how it could be done differently or better. Here you can speculate about what sort of things might be meant by your results. \n\nIf you do all this stuff, even if your experiment is not dramatic, you are likely to impress the judges with your understanding of the scientific method. Of course, having an exciting and imaginative project is also going to be needed to get first place. \n\nAs for the content, there is so much to choose from it is hard to guide you. If you are interested in biology, you can grow some fast growing plants under different conditions and see what happens. If you like earth sciences you could do a test on greenhouse gases, using a CO2 cartridge to fill a container, plain air in another, and perhaps one with high water vapor content and see which one absorbs the most heat from sunlight. It always helps to find something you are curious about or that concerns you. Rather than listing lots of ideas I would recommend you go to this website and get some ideas, and then discuss it with your teacher:\n\nhttp://sciencebuddies.com/
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Start with wikipedia.  Their article on pineapples is very informative and they have some great links at the bottom of the page to other good resources.
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I would do something like this:\n\n* Similarities and differences among living organisms\n(For example, the characteristics of life, cells, comparing single and multicellular organisms)\n*Homeostasis in living things\n(Basic biochemical processes, Feedback systems, Disease)\n*Genetics\n(Heredity, Genes)\n*Reproduction and development\n(Cell division, reproduction among organisms)\n*Evolution\n(Theories)\n*Ecology\n(Interaction between organisms and their environments, energy flow)\n\nThese are just a few ideas.
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Do a hydroponic experiment.  it shows how the prospect of food shortages can be addressed.
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This site lists some interesting science project ideas...\nyou can modify them to make them more or less complicated depending on your grade/age.\nhttp://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/scifairstudio/ideas.html#plants\nGood luck on your project!
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Hmm, you are in luck.  I am a biologist/chemist with a little ecology and botany knowledge and I might be able to help you out here.  But in the future, procrastination is not the answer.  Trust me, I know.\n\nAnywho, on with your project.  And, kudos to your teach.  He is getting you ready for college.  Lets see, you are wanting to germinate seeds.  It would be feasable to choose seeds with very quick germination times as probably you don't have a very long time to perform this experiment.  Some grasses will germinate in as little as 7 days.  With a little research, you can find your own seeds to use.  Next, you are going to have to decide what treatments you want to apply to each group.  And by each group, you need to have more than one "cup" of seeds, more like 4 or 5.  That is for replication.  By treatments, you could use things like adding different types of fertalizer in each group.  Use fertalizers that differ in the amount of phosphourus, nitrogen, and potassium (3 primary nutrients required by plants.)  Then, with multiple groups recieving the same kinds of fertalizer, vary the amount of sunlight (preferably artificial, like an incandesant lamp) and amount of water given.  What you will end up with is something like this:\n\nfertalizer A - 15 cups; each cup gets 1 tb of fertalizer\n      Cups 1-5 get 10mL of water and 12 hrs of "sunlight" daily\n      Cups 6-10 get 10mL of water and no "sunlight" daily\n      Cups 11-15 get no water and 12 hrs of "sunlight" daily\nRepeat this for say, 3 or 4 different types of fertalizer over a 10 to 15 day period.  Also, have 15 cups that follow the above procedure but get NO fertalizer.  After the 10 to 15 days, compare growth of the plants by measuring (probably in mm) the amount of growth produced.  \n\nBy performing a little research of your own and whatever plant seed you decide to use, you can base your hypothesis on how each fertalizer "should" affect your seeds and how much they "should" grow.\n\nFor example, lets say nitrogen is the main nutrient needed by grass.  Any of the fertalizers used that are low in nitrogen would not grow as much as the ones that get the nitrogen.  And those that do get the nitrogen, the ones that get water and sun will grow more than the others that get only sun or only water.  So, your hypothesis would be something like this:  The seeds that recieve adequate amounts of light, water, and nitrogen will have more growth after x amount of days than the other plants.  Then, you perform the experiment and see what you get.  \n\nGood luck on your experiment and if you remember, let me know what your teach thinks and what grade you get!
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well photosynthesis is a good way to start. the water from the roots are pulled by cohesion and then it leaves from the stroma in the plant leaves.
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If u want something easy u can make a rpleca of the solar system. U can by those foam balls and spray paint them. Or u could do an experiment on two plants giving one sunlight and no light to the other. But still feed and water them.
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I think it sounds very interesting.  Have you thought about how you will test this question and then how you will present your findings?  Good luck to you!
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Are you talking about plants?
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(getting out my lab report from last year) Ahem, An abstract tells about the purpose of the experiment and a shortened version of the procedure and results.\n\nFor example:\n\nThe purpose of this experiment was to find out which morning glory would grow best under the influence of different sodas (coca-cola, dr.pepper, orange soda, cream soda) in 30 days. I started out with 2 inch high morning glories.\n\nI gave each plant 25 milliliters of the specified soda each day. I measured the plant's growth in centimeters. This determined the growth rate of each plant.\n\nMy hypothesis was that cream soda would help the morning glories grow best.My data shows that my hypothesis should be rejected. Orange soda made the morning glories grow best.\n\nOrange Soda made the plant grow 12 centimeters, which was a larger amount than than the growth rate of the other sodas plants. I found that Cream Soda did the worst, only having a growth of 4 centimeters.\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nThis is not real data, nor is the information even remotely correct.\nMind you, I got an A+ on my research report and I hope you do too. Remember, this is just an example of an abstract, and the data I put in IS NOT correct. Check with your teacher before you write your abstract.
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RIGHT: Problem (question), Hypothesis, materials needed\nMIDDLE: Steps taken to try to find the solution to the problem (pictures help here too)\nLEFT: Data, record results and conclusion (was your hypothesis correct)\nThis is a pretty simple set up of it (I am thinking of elementary school level)
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A hypothesis is an idea you have that you want to test in an experiment.  It is an educated guess.  \n\nYour rationale just explains why you think your hypothesis to be true.  \n\nNow you have to figure out how to test this hypothesis.  How will you do that?   Determine who your groups will be.\n\nDo a YA search just for the word "hypothesis" and you will find lots of questions that have been asked before that might help you.\n\nBest of luck with it.\n\nPS  When I was in university I always found this sort of stuff difficult!!  :)
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plants and roots of plants