Week 1 - Our First Meeting

Every week our club will have reporters and photographers recording what we discover.

This week our reporters were Sheyna and Salma. Leslie and Michael were our photographers, and Michael did some reporting too.

Salma:

This is a picture of a Chrysanthemum. It was alive last year and now it is dead.

This plant when you pick it out, it smells like onion.

There are supposed to be tulips.

We saw garlic mustard.

We saw beach plum and a cherry tree. The cherry tree is not going to give us cherries.

We saw dandelions and daylilies.

We saw the bark of a cherry tree, and a weeping tree.

We put a fence around the bulbs.

Shayna:
Some plants may come back to life but it depends on what kind of plant it is. And we also took pictures of a beautiful chrysanthemum that can only grow with intensive care. Plants have a very natural smell to them just like the garlic mustard plant. But the one that really caught my eye was the Yew plant, plus the evergreen tree has red ripe cherries on it.

Michael:
Artemisia is a small light green type of leaf.


Red twig dogwood is a red stick.


We found a stick that was gold and it was an opposite plant.

We found a tree in our school yard with no branches.

On a tree trunk in our yard we found a lot of moss.

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You can see all of our photos from Week 1 in the Gallery.

Greenhouse Treasure Hunt a Success

This past January, students from the Science Photography Club spent one lucky winter day in the warm confines of UMass Boston's greenhouses. The students participated in a treasure hunt where they learned about the ways leaves are shaped and arranged on plants. Roniyah and Erico tied for finding the highest number of items on the treasure hunt. You can see the students' photos in the EFG Biodiversity Image Gallery. The photo you see here is Roniyah's favorite.

The UMB University Reporter published a story about the treasure hunt in their February edition (.pdf).