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This lantern shows moisture, humidity, and transpiration of plants in the garden. Speed of rotating lights in the center of flower show humidity (faster = more humidity). The bar graph on open pedal shows moisture (higher bar = more moisture). The pedals show if transpiration is occurring (blue rotating) or not due to low moisture (red) or high humidity (green).
Created by three middle school (7/8th grade) students in a computing class

This lantern shows changes in the light level of the garden. The top half of the lantern "ledges" are blue when more light is present and green when less light is present. The reverse is true of the inside of the lantern. In the video you can see the lantern change as light is being manipulated in the garden in another room.
Created by three high school (9th grade) students in an art class

This lantern shows CO2, light, moisture and photosynthesis in a classroom hydroponic garden. The brightness of the lights shows the moisture level (brighter = more moisture). The rate that the lights move across the mouth shows the light level in the garden (faster = more light). The eyes blinking show the carbon dioxide levels (faster = more CO2). The eyebrows show photosynthesis (blue if occurring and yellow if not).
Created by three middle school (7/8th grade) students in a computing class

Other Student Project Examples

This leaf with a ribbon around it shows air temperature and light. The leaf's bar graph shows a full green bar when light is at a "good" level and half a yellow bar if the light level is "bad". Lights in the ribbon are blue with "good" air temperature while a red shows "bad" air temperature. On the ribbon there is also a moving purple dot.
Created by two middle school students (7/8th grades) in a computing class

In this lantern, carbon dioxide, oxygen and light levels are shown (oxygen is not shown in this video). Carbon dioxide is shown on the left in this video and light is shown on the right. The direction the lights move indicates whether the plants are taking in or producing and releasing the molecule or substance.
​Created by two middle school students (7/8th grades) in a computing class

This Yoshi Egg style lantern shows the light and moisture in a classroom garden. The bottom half of the lantern shows the light levels, where red shows a low light level and yellow shows a high light level. The top half of the lantern shows moisture data (blue = high moisture, red = low moisture).
Created by three high school students (9th grade) in an art class

This illuminati inspired lantern shows light, temperature, and soil moisture data. Each side shows one type of data through a series of flashing or rotating lights (faster = higher levels of that data).
​Created by two middle school students (7/8th grades) in a computing class

Inspired by a venus flytrap plant, this group chose to represent moisture in and soil temperature in the base of the lantern. In the stem they showed pressure and in the top showed light and air temperature.
Created by four high school students (9th grade) in an art class

This lantern shows carbon dioxide, soil moisture and light levels from the garden. sides of the structure are green if both carbon dioxide and soil moisture are good, but if either are bad (low) the sides turn red. The center of the lantern is green if the lights are on over the garden and yellow if they are off. If the entire lantern is green, photosynthesis is occurring in the plants.
Created by three middle school students (7/8th grades) in a computing class

Student Project Gallery

All projects on this page were created by middle and high school students (grades 7-12) from 2017-18. The descriptions provided are summaries of students own descriptions of their projects.