Exploring Plants

Educational site improving knowledge about plants and scientific research 🔎🍃 Home of #GrowingUnderTheRainbow 🌈🌱 #SproutingScientists 🌸🧬

[Exploring Plants @ExploringPlants]

Growing Under the Rainbow 🌈 🌱 has started!

Over 1100 students from 55 classes grades 2-12 all across FL, are learning to become scientists! 🧬🔬

Mint cuttings will be rooted under red, blue, green, and white LEDs and growth will be measured for a few weeks!

#SEFS #scicomm

[Drake Garner @DrakeDG]

A blue sea dragon (Glaucus atlanticus) eating a jellyfish! In the ocean, these awesome sea slugs consume Portuguese man o' war's stinging tentacles, storing the stinging cells to use later!

👀 https://t.co/JkOY4nsgK1

#scicomm #ocean #seaslug

[Bansho @BanshoHQ]

So excited to have you on board, @DrakeDG!

We're building an online wonderland of video lessons for K-6th graders. If you are an educator looking to create fun, video lessons for young learners, check out the Bansho Educator program here: https://t.co/dfU59Ky7vT

[Exploring Plants @ExploringPlants]

New things are coming to Exploring Plants as well! As soon as @DrakeDG gets settled, Growing Under the Rainbow is going to be revitalized!

#excited #newschoolyear

[Drake Garner @DrakeDG]

Officially Dr. Drake Garner!

Dissertation accepted, papers all signed, and I'm no longer a student #PHinallyDone. Thank you to everyone! 💙🐊🐂

I'm now a consultant for @gotynker, teaching K-12 students how to code! I'm also creating videos for @BanshoHQ! 😁

#edtech #scicomm

[Drake Garner @DrakeDG]

Officially Dr. Drake Garner!

Dissertation accepted, papers all signed, and I'm no longer a student #PHinallyDone. Thank you to everyone! 💙🐊🐂

I'm now a consultant for @gotynker, teaching K-12 students how to code! I'm also creating videos for @BanshoHQ! 😁

#edtech #scicomm

[Samantha Rose Burrell, PhD @Burrell_Sammy]

Daily encouragement from my plants: “We’re *rooting* for you!” 🌱

[Drake Garner @DrakeDG]

Coloring changing pH escape room puzzles! Awesome way to integrate more instruction into an already cool demonstration.

As a twist, have groups prepare solutions and create puzzles for other students.

#STEM #education #ScienceMatters #teacher

[Drake Garner @DrakeDG]

Awesome initiative by our friends @suzywillow & @rrhoover! 🖤

[Drake Garner @DrakeDG]

Historic day for the US and science! #SpaceX #Dragon 🚀

Googling about the zero gravity indicator “Tremor” 🦕 led me to another cool story:

In 2013 in space @AstroKarenN made an adorable dinosaur for her son! She used spare materials around the ISS!

https://t.co/VE0IslPzlB

[Drake Garner @DrakeDG]

Great article providing good insights about research around corona viruses and the dangers of gain-of-function viral research. #COVID__19 #SARSCoV2 #virus #scicomm

[Melissa Atkins @MrsAtkinsTMS]

Planted our mint cuttings from #GrowingUnderTheRainbow experiment. Will see which plants grow best in natural light after being in colored light. Each pot is marked w/ original color. @mrsK_IBSCI @ExploringPlants @TradewindsMS @pbcsd #SharePBCSD

[Amy Goldberg @agoldberg_DP]

#GrowingUnderTheRainbow week 4, GREEN still the tallest 🌱
#scientistineveryfloridaschool
@UFEarthSystems
@ExploringPlants
#HandsOnScienceMatters @DelPradoElem @suefigueroapbc @sari_myers @PBCSDScience @pbscience4u @PBCSTEM

[Amy Goldberg @agoldberg_DP]

@ExploringPlants Just rescued my plants from my classroom today. Did week 5 final measurements then sadly turned off my 🌈 rainbow of lights 😊 Here is the final set of pictures. GREEN won!!! 🌱

[Exploring Plants @ExploringPlants]

We will not be forgetting about all our #SproutingScientists, once all things go back to normal I will personally ensure all classes get a new round of plants. Don’t worry! Stay safe! 🌱🌈💚

We may be getting out some new videos soon, but we’ll see, things are crazy everywhere.

[Melissa Atkins @MrsAtkinsTMS]

Before: all of our awesome experiments!! After: orchids going back to @Pinejog and @ExploringPlants #GrowingUnderTheRainbow mint cuttings coming to my house. Everything will be ready for our return! I already miss my classroom. @TradewindsMS @pbcsd #SharePBCSD

[Drake Garner @DrakeDG]

COVID-19 Interactive Map by @JohnsHopkins

It places a good emphasis on total recovered cases instead of just inducing fear.

https://t.co/SY6NYhoxY5

#coronavirus #WashYourHands #COVID19 #CoronaVirusUpdate

[Drake Garner @DrakeDG]

Katherine Johnson’s story is an important one for all our #SproutingScientists 🌎🌙🚀⭐️🪐

🖼 by Steve Breen of the San Diego Union-Tribune.

#Science #WomenInScience #STEM #Space #KatherineJohnson #NASA

[Exploring Plants @ExploringPlants]

Light calibration time! 🌈🌱

To all our #SproutingScientists this is what we do with your boxes too! It’s important to know exactly what type and how much light is being emitted by each LED.

@StellarNet
#science #research #LED #plantscience #scientist #GrowingUnderTheRainbow

[Exploring Plants @ExploringPlants]

Go @UF 🙌🏼💙🧡

[Alachua Schools @AlachuaSchools]

A big thank you to all the UF volunteers for their amazing work and our new Project Makeover sponsor Rotary Club of Gainesville. #UFPM2020

[Exploring Plants @ExploringPlants]

@MrsZwerin @UFEarthSystems @kjfollis23 @MRWEST_13 @mrsmoranscience @msPalmatier It is!!! We are highly encouraging others to jump on the project and use it in their classrooms or homes. Check out:

https://t.co/GAkten4axI

We explain what kind of lights to use and how to construct the boxes!

Feel free to reach out with any questions! We are happy to help!

[Exploring Plants @ExploringPlants]

#GrowingUnderTheRainbow 🌈🌱 aims to address plant blindness and the lack of #biotech #education in K-12.

Students learn to be scientists as they study plant growth within different colored LED boxes!

#STEMeducation #science #SproutingScientists #SEFS #STEM

@UFEarthSystems

[Exploring Plants @ExploringPlants]

The cutest little organism. 😍

[Biohacking Space Peshawar @biohackersPew]

A Tardigrade takes a break from feeding to look directly at you. This water bear is magnified 400 times. It’s about half a millimeter in length. It’s complex mouth parts are visible here, as well as it’s black eyes, which are a single cell.

#Friends #SaturdayThoughts

[Exploring Plants @ExploringPlants]

We can not wait to see all the results! Especially when these plants get potted up in soil soon! 😁

#SprountingScientists #GrowingUnderTheRainbow 🌈🌱

[Melissa Atkins @MrsAtkinsTMS]

My Growing Under the Rainbow experiment is going so well! Who knew that the color of the light would affect plant growth so much? We didn’t!! @UFEarthSystems @mrsK_IBSCI @Burrell_Sammy @DrakeDG @TradewindsMS @beckysubin1 @PBCSDScience @pkstrauss #GUTR