Science Fair Project On Fertilizer
Which is Better Organic Fertilizer or Inorganic Fertilizer for Speeding up Plant Growth?
This science fair project is perfect for middle school students between grades 6 to 8, and will help the student to understand how plants grow, what makes them grow faster, and whether organic fertilizers are good for growing plants?
When starting a project, you have to make a hypothesis on what you expect to happen. The question you want to answer is whether organic fertilizer will help to grow grass seed faster or slower than inorganic fertilizer. Remember that a hypothesis is just a guess, so it doesn't matter if you are wrong or right, what matters is that you always keep this hypothesis in mind when you are trying collecting your data.
For this project you're going to need a ruler, 12 small pots (or you can use paper cups) of the same size, potting soil, an organic and inorganic fertilizer and grass seed. Put the potting soil in the pots, adding the same amount of soil to each pot. Add a bit of fertilizer to each pot (6 pots will get an organic fertilizer and 6 will get an inorganic fertilizer) according to the directions on the package. Then, add the same amount of grass seed. Water with the same amount of water, and put the pots in a sunny location.
Every day, you're going to want to check on the progress of the grass seed, and every other day you are going to want to water the grass seed with the same amount of water going to each pot. After a couple of days, you should see sprouts of grass in the pot. You want to measure the progress of the grass growth, measuring each pot individually, and recording the results.
Continue doing this for between two weeks to one month, and when you have all of your data together, you should make an average of the total grass growth between the pots that contain organic fertilizer and the pots that contain inorganic fertilizer. Write your results in the form of a chart to make it easy for you and the science fair judges to see the results.
What are the results? Which fertilizer works best? You should find that the inorganic fertilizer works best. Why do you think this is so? If you want to continue your results, you can check your results by planting different seeds, for example, flower seeds, vegetable seeds or herb seeds.
The differences between organic and inorganic fertilizers are pretty big. If organic fertilizers worked as well as inorganic fertilizers, people would definitely use them, because they are better for the environment. Inorganic fertilizers help farmers to grow a lot of food quickly which makes their profit even bigger.
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- Do you know how science fair judges grade projects? Do you know what they look out for?
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- Do you know if it necessary to perform an experiment? (Can you do a project without an experiment?)
- Do you know how many different types of science projects there are?
- Do you know about the many different possibilities. Do you know a systematic way to go about choosing a topic?
- Do you know the differance scientific "Theory" and a "Hypothesis"?
- Do you know what your child can do if an experiment goes wrong?
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