Andalucía mejor con ciencia: a short video

There are several schools in Andalucia working in order to improve the environment and to do science with people. Here you have a short video, produced by Fundación Descubre. We can see our project. Soon we will expose our results in a congress.

How can we improve our environment?

Our results are clearly conclusive. Both, seeds germination and plants development are affected by products we usually use at home for cleaning or personal care. The inhibit germination of lentil seeds and growth of small plants. In conclusion, we have an environmental problem. And we have to solve it. And this is not only your responsability. 

I invite you to talk to your parents, your brothers and sisters, about the results of our experiments. It is important for them to know what we know, that home products can affect living beings and environment. An of course, we need to change our habits.

How can we reduce the impact of using these products? Please, write your decisions as comments.

How did our plants grow?

We have finished the next experiment. We have planted lentil seeds and we have waited until they have germinated. When small plants appeared, we treated them with disolutions of our home pollutants. 

Ten days lated, we had new results. Our lentil plants had grown but we noticed differences between treatments in growth. Here you have some pictures:

When plants were grown we pulled up the plants and we measured stalk lenght, root lenght and we weighed plants. We have compared results with different treatments. And here you have our results. What are your conclusions? Do our pollutants affects plants and environment? Please write our conclusions.