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Illustrations:
Ayan, Alia, Ala'a, Joshua, Ashley & Daska
Photography: Andy |
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WEATHER
REPORT
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Rain
fall for Feb, March & April
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Air
temperature
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ORANGE
PIPS
Back in February, I was experimenting with 5 orange pips. I wanted
to see if they would germinate and how they would do it. The equipment
I used was 1 beaker, some kitchen paper and some grit in the bottom
of the beaker and I added water to soak the paper and the grit.
I put the 5 pips between the beaker and the paper.
A
week later, they didn’t do anything. So we peeled the skins
off. Then we had a school holiday and we thought they’d
die but the seeds lived and they’d turned green and split.
A white root went down into the grit and a green stem grew upwards.
So now we got several seedlings and they are still growing.
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Begonia
leaf cuttings
Last month (see March diary) we tried to take begonia leaf cuttings.
It didn’t work. We think the soil was too wet and too cold.
The leaf just rotted.
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We
put some in a plastic pot
They came up duly on the dot
Then some clot
Dropped the lot.
So now some sunflowers we have not
Got |
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Experiment:
to show what water is softer.
Method: we
got equal amounts of rainwater and tap water in 2 small beakers.
Then we added 2 tiny drops of liquid soap to each beaker. Then
we got a straw each and blew into the cups.
Result:
we found that the beaker with the rainwater bubbled up best.
Conclusion:
the rainwater is softer than tap water.
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Can
you spot something special about the faces.
click to enlarge |
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First,
the answers to last month’s (February’s) quiz
• the mystery flower was gorse. If you clicked on it, you
would have got a much bigger and better picture. If you downloaded
it and painted it bright yellow (with green spikes and stems)
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then
WELL DONE YOU.
• which bud belonged to which tree? We hope you clicked
on all the pictures to enlarge them because the clue to the names
was often in the detail.
1 was c (thorn - you should have been able to
guess that because there were thorns on the branch.)
2 was e (pussy willow - the catkins looked furry
and strokable, like cat’s fur.)
3 was d (horse chestnut, sometimes called sticky
buds)
4 was b (hazel - the long yellow tassels are
called catkins)
5 was a (ash - the buds are flat, black and very
distinctive.)
How did you score:
5 out of 5? Brilliant
4 out of 5? Very good.
3 out of 5? You’re a good guesser.
2 out of 5? Are you sure you were trying?
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Copyright ECOwatch
2006 All rights reserved. |
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