Scientific Method

The beauty and wonder of science is that it explains everyday experiences and the world around us. We make an hypothesis and then test it see what the results are. The first  results of our Tomatosphere experiment have sprouted!! We watered both sets of seeds equally, we exposed both sets of seeds to the same amount of sunlight and finally we made sure that both sets of seeds were kept at the same temperature. Drum roll please!! The seeds from tray A (second picture below) are beginning to sprout and the seeds from Tray B (first picture below)  are still not showing any signs of sprouts. If you remember, one set of seeds came from terrestrial tomatoes (from earth) and the other set of seeds came from seeds grown in space (aboard the space station). We don't know which seeds were which, again another pillar of the Scientific Method. We hold all other variables constant and see what happens to the one variable we are trying to measure. We will be organizing our data over the next few days and then submitting it. At that point, we will be told which seeds went into space.