Sekolah Cikal – MYP Year 7
Science Project
By:
Salsabil Inas Labiba
Jakarta, Indonesia
2012

Content
Preface
Purpose
Introduction
Hypothesis
Method
Data
Results
Conclusion
References
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Preface
In this page, I will say thank you to Allah to gives me life until right now I write this research paper about my observation of the green beans. I would thank to my parents who teach me about the world, everything. Also, I would like to thank to my science teacher, Miss. Dewi Pramesti Kusumaningrum who teaches me about many things in scientific explanations. She opens my eyes about the scientific world around us such as cells organism, living creatures, and many more. And also to my friend, Chika who gave me more green beans while many of mine are having the bad quality. And to also my friend,
Azzah who helped me when doing this science reports because I had many struggles to write many new things for me using scientific explanations and scientific words. Also, this is my first time to write a science research paper after doing an experiment.
By doing this experiment, I could know how the farmer grows the green beans in the farm that I would not know if I am not doing this experiment. By doing this, I could know what kind of materials that I should prepare before planting green beans and where should I put the pot of the beans to get more high quality and less timing.
But then, I feel really sorry to my teacher, Miss Dewi cause I could not keep her trust to me to keep all of those cups properly and put on save place. I was lost my A cup. I don’t know what was happened that time, but all of I know about that cup is I have lost all of 5 beans inside it without any cotton layers anymore.
Anyway, I am really happy to do this experiment because by doing that, because it can fulfill my curiosity of the growth of the beans. At the first time, I thought that every single plant would grow faster if they receive high amount of sunlight, especially when we place it in a place where receive direct sunlight.

Purpose
To support the topic of ‘From Cells to Organisms’ in our Science class this term and we are learning about cell organisms and living creatures, we would do the observation of the green beans growth in 4 different cups that receive different amount of sunlight. Each cup will contain of 5 green bean seeds, 2 of the cups will layered by cottons and the others will layered by a hand of soil.
One cup of cottons and one cup of soil will be placed where the amount of the sunlight is in the high level, such as outside the building. The other 2 will place where the amount of the sunlight is lower than the outside building, such as in the guest room or another room that receive low amount of sunlight.
We will observe how the beans grow from the first day of planting until a week of observation. At the end, we will get the different results for each cup that we have. Which cup that has the higher green bean tree and how is the branch looks like. It is hard, big, or thin. And how the leaves look like. By observing how the plants look like, we can determine what kind of things that we need. How much the growth for each day and how high the beans will grow in a different materials that we need to prepare before the plantation and in the different place. By that, we would know what kind of materials and where should we put the pots of beans to get the best quality.

Introduction
In this term, we learn about cell organisms and also living creatures in our world, such as plants, animals, and humans. To help this topic on this term, we want to observe the growth of the green beans that we think it is more easier to do because it does not need more space, more maintenance, easy to find the materials, and we can observe it just once a day. That is why we chose this experiment.
Green beans also known as string beans or snap beans are also known scientifically as Phaseolus vulgaris.
They are available year around with a peak season of May to October. It has green and dry skin.
Probably they were derived from their ancestors in Peru, then they spread to
South and Central America by migrating Indian tribes. Then, they entranced
Europe around the 16 th century by Spanish explorers.
The best quality of beans that we can measure is from its skin and color. If the skin is soft, green, and has a firm texture without brown spots and bruises, so you can know that it is the best quality beans.
Green beans are good to protect your cardiovascular system from blood fats because it has antioxidant to keep your body save from bad radicals which is containing viruses that danger for our body. It can through our immune system and start to attack our inner organs.
Nowadays, the biggest commercial producers of fresh green beans are
Argentina, China, Egypt, France, Indonesia, India, Iraq, Italy, Mexico,
Netherland, Spain, and United States.

Hypothesis
The green beans that putted in a place that receive direct sunlight will grow faster with the ones that putted not in the direct sunlight because plants usually need more sunlight to grow up more higher and faster, and also to do photosynthesis.
Also, the beans that placed in the cups with soil will grow faster and more greenish than the ones that placed on cottons because the roots of the beans will grow easily and it will absorbs more water inside the soil. So, the plants can easily do the photosynthesis and growing up using more water inside the soil, more place for roots to grow, and receive more sunlight at the day.
So, the beans that placed in the cups of soil and receive more sunlight will grow more faster and higher that the others. The beans that inside the cups but not receive more sunlight will grow slowly because they have not much sunlight to do photosynthesis.
In fact, after we did the observation, the beans that placed on cottons and soil but not receiving more sunlight grows faster than the ones that receive full of direct sunlight for 5 days long. The seeds go rotten and it goes dying. The growth is much more slowly than the other 2 cups.
If we compare the cup with cottons and the one with soil but placed not in the place where receive more direct sunlight, the growth of the beans on the cottons are more higher because they have more water to absorb, although they have not much space to live because the wet cotton layers are much more thick than the soil that can be separated easily to give more space for the roots.

Materials and Methods
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Green beans seeds
• 4 empty pots
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White cottons
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Soil
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Water
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Label your 4 pots that you’ve prepare is before with A, B, C, D
• Put some cotton layers on 2 different pots (ex: A, C) and a hand of soil into the others (ex: B, D)
• Place 5 seeds of green beans in each of the small pots, but not close enough for each other
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Put the A and C pots in a place that receive the direct sunlight, and put the B and D in a place that not receive the direct sunlight.
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Start the observation

Data
1. Cup A with cottons
Date
20 March
2012
21 March
2012
22 March
2012
23 March
2012
24 March
2012
25 March
2012
Bean 1
(cm)
0
0.5
0.5
2. Cup B with soil
Date Bean 1
(cm)
0 20 March
2012
21 March
2012
22 March
2012
23 March
2012
24 March
2012
25 March
2012
2
2
2
3
4.5
Bean 2
(cm)
0
1
1
Bean 2
(cm)
0
0
0
0
0
0
Bean 3
(cm)
0
1
1
Bean 3
(cm)
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
Bean 4
(cm)
0
0
1
0
0
Bean 4
(cm)
0
0
Bean 5
(cm)
0
1.5
1.5
0
1
0
0
Bean 5
(cm)
0
0

3. Cup C with cottons
Date Bean 1
(cm)
0 20 March
2012
21 March
2012
22 March
2012
23 March
2012
24 March
2012
25 March
2012
0.5
1.5
1.5
2
3
4. Cup D with soil
Date
20 March
2012
Bean 1
(cm)
0
Bean 2
(cm)
0
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
Bean 2
(cm)
0
Bean 3
(cm)
0
1.5
4.5
6
13
17.5
Bean 3
(cm)
0
0
0
0
0
0
Bean 4
(cm)
0
Bean 4
(cm)
0
Bean 5
(cm)
0
0.5
1
3
Bean 5
(cm)
0
0.5
0.5

21 March
2012
22 March
2012
23 March
2012
24 March
2012
25 March
2012
1
1.5
3
10
11.5
1
1.5
4
12.5
16.5
0
1.5
1.5
7
8
0
1.5
1.5
3
3
0
1.5
2
8.5
11

Results
After doing the observation of the green beans growth, we will receive the result that is the beans in the soil and cotton in a place that not receive the direct sunlight are faster to grow up than the ones which are put in a place that receive the direct sunlight.
Green beans are considered as warm weather crops which need warmed temperature soil and a little cup of water to keep the beans moist so it could grow faster. It likes high temperature above 65° F, around 59.4° C. It will produce green and healthy beans. Green beans will receive direct sunlight at least 6 hours to get high quality beans.
That’s why the beans that are located not in the directed sunlight grow faster and higher than the ones that receive direct sunlight.
The ones placed in a place with full direct sunlight will receive more amount of sunlight, more than 6 hours. It wills grows as not faster as the ones that put not in the directed sunlight place. The beans will go dry and the water is going empty because of the evaporation, so the plants will get rotten cause they had no water to absorb and help them to grow, and dry space.

Conclusion
If you think that all of plants that receive much sunlight and enough water with soil can grow faster, I suggest you to do this experiment because it will make your eyes open in a scientific world. Not all of the plants that receive much sunlight can grow through the heat and wind. Green beans are warm weathered crops. It is easily to get rotten if the temperature is too hot.
From this experiment by doing the observation of the green beans growth, I get the information that green beans need warm watered soil above 65°F and less sunlight to grow faster and more higher than if we put it in a dry place. It will cause much evaporation in the cup, so the plant will get rotten because it receives more than 6 hours of sunlight and almost 2 times of it (12 hours of sunlight), more than the limit. It will go dying and it could not grow anymore.
The roots will go much long than in the cotton to find water, because it could not find any water near it to absorb as the energy to keep grow up and still alive.
Also, we need cottons that trapped the water to keep it stay in the cup, so the plant will easily to get water from the cottons. It prevents the dying beans because of much sunlight that it receives. Although, the cottons usage in this experiment makes the roots have not much space to grow because the layer is thick enough to get through by it.

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