TOMATOSHERE is HERE!

{ 03:38, 4 March 2008 } { 3 comments } { Link }

What is Tomatoshere?

"Tomatosphere is a research project involving more than 9,000 classrooms of Grades 2 to grade 10 students ("Tomatonauts") across Canada, the United States and several other nations. In 2008, students will have the opportunity to grow tomatoes from seeds that have been placed in an environment to simulate the effects of aerocapture, as might occur when entering the atmosphere of Mars, and a control group. In the research project, students will be asked to germinate the seeds, but will not know the origin of the seeds until the results are reported to the web site. At that point, the teacher receives an automatic response indicating which seeds were from each group. This methodology, known as a "blind study" will allow the mystery of the project to be real for the students." ~quote from FAQs on the Tomatoshere website.

Check it out. You can register at the website, Tomatosphere. Homeschoolers are definitely welcome. They have resources for Teachers and Students of different grade (age) levels; study guides, stories, games, experiments, and more. This is my first year doing this but it looks like it will be quite interesting, fun, and educational. :)

Enjoy!

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{ 04:14, 4 March 2008 } { Posted by fcusick }
I put it on my website also!

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{ 04:23, 4 March 2008 } { Posted by schatzila }
I just saw this on someone else's blog...word sure gets around....it's very exciting when something new comes and and we can all benefit from learning different things.

Thanks for sharing,

Connie

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{ 06:23, 10 March 2008 } { Posted by SeasonChanging }
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