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Our "Fertilizing Frenzy" Chart
| Planting the Seeds for our Experiment | |
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Planting seeds carefully. |
Radish & lentil planted in sand |
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Planting in potting soil. |
Radish & sunflower seeds in potting soil. |
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Planting seeds. |
Watering just the right amount. |
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Plants after two weeks of growing and before fertilizing |
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Bat Group: These plants will be fertilized with water only |
Jaguar Group: These plants will be fertilized with water only |
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Leaf Cutter Ant Group: These plants will be fertilized with frass water. |
Agouti Group: These plants will be fertilized with frass water. |
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Toucan Group: These plants will be fertilized with frass mixed with cricket body parts |
Tree Frog Group: These plants will be fertilized with frass mixed with cricket body parts |
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Howler Monkey Group: These plants will be fertilized with frass mixed with cricket body parts |
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Our Crickets |
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Crickets in their food lid inside our terrarium
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Click to see a larger picture of a sunflower head with our crickets climbing all over it inside the terrarium. |
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Preparing the Frass Solution |
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Dead crickets (Note the frass has fallen to the bottom of the jar.) |
Sifting to sort the crickets from the frass |
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Separating frass from cricket bodies |
Sorting crickets and frass then ginding frass in the mortar and pestle |
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Grinding the frass into a powder |
Dead crickets (left) and cricket frass (right) |
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"Frazzlologists" hard at work. They even gave up recess to do this job! |
Look at the powdered frass in the mortar. |
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The powdered frass is finally ready. We added 2 teaspoons of the frass to a 2-liter pop bottle of water and mixed it to make our fertilizer solution. |
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