A garden

 Since last week, the class of 2011,science 6b, were working on garden. You must be wondering, how can 6th graders build gardens...and you are right, we can't except for some very talented ones. All we had to actually do, was make a small 3dimensional garden. We had to use materials  that we could find and we had to make sure that nothing in our garden was alive. I used: straw, branches,dirt, pops tickle sticks, glue, cotton, straws and some more. I could only find a shoe box to do my experiment in so that's what I used. This is going to be my diary where I kind of write every day my observations and what I see changing. Coming to class on the 26th of January, was my first day of observations....I must be honest though, and by the 26th I only had my garden ready to put the solutions on so it could produce crystals. The whole "unit" was practically called make a crystal garden. I am not sure yet how crystals will form out of water mixed with some solid but that is what the whole project is about. Anyways, we could pick salt solution, Epsom salt solution, sugar solution, borax and mono A.P(not sure what it stands for) I started with putting borax onto my so called "straw stick" which represent flowers growing on wood sticks, and around the straw was a thin yellow rope. I forgot to mention that we could also use food coloring to  make the crystals all different colors. My borax was red and I covered all the yellows strings red. Next, I took sugar and added blue color to it. I cut a little cup of plastic in the middle, powered the the sugar solution in. Finally I put the "bush" inside and now it is resting in the box, hopefully forming crystals. I also included cotton pillows in my garden, and I was meant to put Epsom salt on them but accidentally I put blue borax, anyways, it looks very interesting. I put normal salt on some other 3 bushes made out of thick curling string and last, I put Epsom salt on the edges of my box. This was my day one. For my next post, I will include a picture so you get a clearer idea of what I was talking about. SO after all, today was a very fun day and I always learned something about crystals.