GrowBeasts


 * TEED 5280 - Active Learning - Math, Science & Technology**
 * Seattle University - Summer, 2017**
 * GROW BEAST PAGES**

**2017**
This summer we "Grow a Boyfriend." Our friend started this way, standing 7.0 cm tall at 3PM on 19 June, 2017. He went into a water tank (previously a container for Classic Italian Biscotti - still a few crumbs floating around) and set about the business of becoming a larger boy friend. You can check out the spreadsheet linked below, and I will update the thumbnail of the graph (at right) every so often over the period of growth and shrinkage

And here he is (at right) after 244 hours of growth, having reached an impressive maximum height of 20.5 cm. He was removed from water at that point and began another phase of life - the drying out phase. He began by spending a little time with a friend.



As time went on, this period began to look a little awkward (at left). Evaporation can be like that. After a total of 602 hours, a few days short of a month, the Boyfriend was retired, having returned to 8.7 cm and more or less stabilizing there. He started this adventure at 7cm, so overall I guess this has been a growth experience for him.

He is shown here (below) in retirement, with a mini baby carrot (and a ruler) for scale.

Emily's Grow Beast Story Paige's Grow Beast story [|Karmen's Grow Beast story] [|Stephanie's Grow Beasts] [|Chantelle's Grow Beast Story] [|Hayden's Grow Beast Story] [|Anna's Grow Beast Story] [|Chelsea's Grow Beast Story] [|Sydney's Grow Beast Story] [|Bobbi's Grow Beast Story] [|Brandon's Grow Beast Story] Brady's Grow Beast Saga [|Danny's Time-traveling Grow Beast Story] [|Kerri's Grow Beast Investigation] On my padlet: a story that begs the question, "Is It Easy Being Green?" along with data, a graph, and a gallery of pictures!
 * Class of 2017 Grow Beast Stories are here**:

This summer (2016) we have Green Bug for our class Grow Beast. It emerged from its packaging with a length 5.9 c

Its journey to hugeness began on Tuesday, June 21st in room temperature water. It was taken out of the water at 12:30PM on the last day of June after 9 days of growth and the shrinkage began. The weather was, with brief exceptions, clear and the Grow Bug spent its first several drying-out days outdoors. Evaporation provided a steep slope back toward the original length. It didn't quite get there, even after 18 days of drying so we called it on July 18. You can download the file through the link above if you want to see the data. More fun, however, may be had by checking out the 2016 GB stories linked below. :-)


 * Class of 2016 Grow Beast Stories are here:**

Francis' Grow Beast Story [|Edward's Grow Beast Story] [|Karin's Grow Beast Story] [|David's Grow Beast Story] Lissette's Grow Beast Story Katy's Grow Beast Story Elsa's Grow Beast Story [|Ululani's Grow Beast Story] [|Steven's Grow Beast Story Here] Brandon's Grow Beast Story Andreas' Grow Beast Story [|Alexa's Grow Beast Story] Clarke's Grow Beast Story! Pinky and Greeny find Happiness John's Grow Beast Story [|Kasey's Grow Beast Story!] [|Megan's Grow Beast Story!] [|Kenzie's Sisterly Grow Beasts] [|Lizzie's Grow Beast Story] Ana's Grow Beast Story

In the summer of 2015 we grew a Grow Dino. It began on 23 June 2015, was removed from water on 1 July and very gradually returned to its original form, more or less (see right).

Here is a spreadsheet with its growth/shrinkage data:

[|The Ultimate Anniversary Gift: Taylor's Grow Beast Story] Water or Wine? Rhya's Grow Beast Story Unnatural Natural Catastrophe: Miho's Grow Beast Story [|The Tale of Hall & Oats: Ed's Grow Beast Story] [|Morgan's Grow Beast: Marshawn v. Russell] The Tale of Lizzie and Jake - Fran's Grow Beast Story
 * Class of 2015 Grow Beast Stories are here****:**

Here is a the spreadsheet for 2014's Grow Beast, which happens to be a Grow Seal:

We started our Grow Seal at 2:30PM on Tuesday after noon, June 24. Its length, measured from nose to tail, was 9.5 cm. The seal spent its formative time in a gallon-size zip-lock bag of water, traveling often though not extensively. It was removed from the water and allowed to dry out on a very warm and sunny day, after 162 hours in the wet. The weather in the drying out phase went back and forth between sunny and cloudy with cooler nights and occasional rain. Grow Seal was left behind and got no measurements :-( over the long 4th of July weekend. By the 8th of July it had returned to its original length of 9.5 cm. We concluded the data gathering at 9:30AM on 10 July.

A Tale of Two Dinosaurs: Kelley's Grow Beast Story Chelsey's Grow Beast Story Xena's Grow Beast Project Lauren's Grow Beast Story Baisy's Grow Beast Investigation [|Kayce's Grow Beast Story] Kelly Jones's Grow Beast Investigation [|LJ's Grow Beast Investigation] Rachel's Grow Beast Project A Tale of Two Brothers: Kelly Fraser's Grow Beast Story Megan's Grow Beast Investigation The Tale of Tap & Salty (Wilson's Grow Beasts) Nadia's Grow Beast Investigation Melissa's Grow Beast Story Tiffany's Grow Beast Story Double Doused Dinosaurs: Lindsey's Grow Beasts Katelen's Grow Beasts Story
 * Class of 2014 Grow Beast Stories are here****:**

Here is the spreadsheet with the data for 2013's class grow beast, a Grow-Tiger:



The Grow-Tiger was immersed at ~3:30PM on June 25, 2013. We have at right a chart depicting the tiger's length as a function of time. The tiger was removed from water on July 3rd at 192 elapsed hours or 8 days. At that point its growth had more or less stopped. The weather during its drying out phase has been quite sunny and dry here in the Pacific NW so the tiger's decline in length has been steady.

The graph at right has hours on the x-axis and height on the y-axis.


 * Class of 2013 Grow Beast Stories are here:**

Kia's Grow Beasts: Lucy and Betty Linda's Grow Beasts: Plain and Buttered (Don't miss the square dance!) Cassandra Rodriguez's GrowBoyfriend Nicole's Grow Beasts: Spike and Little Legs Katie's Grow Beasts: Tom & Jerry Blake's Grow Beast: Orange ... Jessica's Grow Beasts: (Pinky & Purp) Alexis's Grow Beasts: Ali & Little Foot


 * Class of 2012 Grow Beast stories are here:**

Leslie Woods Grow Beast Adventures Melissa Huppin Clean Grow Beasts! Kate Zender Grow Beasts! Kristen's Grow Beasts Jessica Vargas Grow Beast Adventures Melissa Protz Grow Beast Nathan Stuart's Grow Beasts, Frank and Ernest Cindy Torres GB Story Elizabeth Montoya Grow Beasts Matt Harrow's Ballad of a Grow Beast [|Nathan Santo's Grow Beats] Yi-Hsuan Tsai's Grow Beasts Alex Craighead's Grow Beasts Shelley Thompson's Grow Beasts Sharika Karuppali's Grow Beasts Lisa Spooner's Grow Beasts Sara Hickman's Grow Beasts Cameron Robertson's Grow Beasts ELSchneider Grow Beast on Caffeine

Here is a link to a spreadsheet with the data for 2012's class grow beast, a Grow-Penguin: The Grow-Penguin was immersed at 3PM on June 25, 2012. It grew slowly but more or less steadily until I removed it from the water at 9AM on July 3 (186 elapsed hours). July 4 was one of our rare sunny, dry days and I took it outside at hour 212. Its rate of shrinkage that day was dramatic! We are now beyond the 300th hour and with our unusually dry and warm weather the downhill slope on this graph is steeper than the uphill slope. If you look closely you can distinguish the nights from the days....

The growth graph at right has hours on the x-axis and height in cm on the y-axis.

Christine's Grow Beast Page Zachary Warren's Groovy Growbie Page Candace's Grow Beast Page Peter Kashevarof's Grow Beast Page Carolyn's Grow Beast (Growbie) Page [|Elizabeth's Grow Beast Page] [|Abby's Grow Beast Page] [|Zac Dowling's Grow Beast Page] Andy's Grow Beast Page [|Bernadette's Grow Beast WebPage] Tara's Grow Beast Experiment [|Brian's Grow Beast Experiment] Jeff's Grow Beast Experiment [|Jinny's Grow Beast Page] Ben's Grow Beast Page Steve B's Grow Beast Page Molly's Grow Beast Page Claire's Grow Beast Page Katie H's Grow Beast Wonders [|Katie P's Grow Beast Page]
 * Here are the Grow Beast stories from the class of 2011:**

Val Chin's GrowBeasts Katy & Fredo von Grow Beast Kylie Lindner's Grow Beasts Dexter and Debra (Amber's Grow Beasts) Grow Beasts! - Angela Morrison Tales of the Grow Beast - By Eryn Ross The Adventures of Kray Tacious and Jer Assic - Rachel Rowland Ruby and Old Blue Eyes - Sara Dasta [|Denise Laveson's GB (includes movie!)] Jen Walsh's Beasties [|Leni's grow beasts said, "ROAR] Peter's Grow Beasts Mr. T and Blondie - by Elsa Yanez [|Grow BeastMaster] - By Ryan Lafferty GrowBeast Extravaganza - By Sasha Appelbaum [|Grow Beasts and Good Times] - Meredith
 * Here are the Grow Beast stories from the class of 2010:**

As a class we grew quite a few GBs. Here is a chart of all of the data that were entered on the communal GB spreadsheet. And here is the spreadsheet.

Below this message is the spreadsheet where you can enter data for one of your Grow Beasts. Here is the process: Click on the Spreadsheet icon (just below this paragraph) to download it. As soon as you have the spreadsheet, click on the EDIT tab on this page and __delete__ the Spreadsheet. Hit "Save." This avoids the confusion of two people editing the document at the same time. You will put it back (and hit "Save" as soon as you are done.) Now enter your data in a new column headed by your name or initials and the medium of growth. Save the changes to the spreadsheet __and rename it with your initials replacing those previously at the end of the file__ __name__. (This insures that the old file does not override your new file.) For example, John Dewey might download the spreadsheet with the file name, "2012 Class GBs MR", make his changes, then save and upload a copy labeled "2011 Class GBs JD." Finally, reinsert (upload) the spreadsheet with your changes and the new file name to our wikispace, right where it was before, and hit "Save."
 * 6-25-13**
 * Directions for Entering and Charting Data on Your Grow Beast in Our Class Chart**



Here are data & growth curves for three Grow Beasts all grown in water at room temp for about 5.5 days and then allowed to dry out / shrink for 12 days.