TEED 5280 - Active Learning - Math, Science & Technology
Seattle University - Summer, 2018

Grow Beasts are one mechanism for engaging learners in the active construction of mathematical and scientific understanding and skill. They are useful in different ways across a wide range of ages and ability levels.

Here is a link to my Grow Beast Website| - all things Grow Beast!

And here's a link to a page serving my GB article.

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2018
In 2018, for our class Grow Beast we tried a "Grow Fox," which came in a box. A fox in a box. Further, the fox was initially contained in plastic stump. Its initial growth took place inside the stump, away from our observation and measuring devices. So there's no data this year. Just a photo record:


We began by putting with Howie the Stump Fox in a big jar of water in late June, 2018.	Here's how Howie looked a few days later, beginning to bust out of the stump.	Here's Howie, about a week later, more completely emerged from the stump.	Two weeks after being immersed, Howie has been removed from the water (and the stump) and is drying out.

Class of 2018 Grow Beast Stories are here:

Trixie and Spinelli and the Giant Vat of Pickle Juice (Lillian)

Rex, Flex, and Pex Go Swimming (Grady)

GroGlo Pools (Matt)

The Mysterious Blue Barrels (Eric)

Tesla, Twinkle, and Hyena's pickles (Jenn)

The Tale of Dan and Stan (Cara)

Bob, Petunia, and Vlad's Garden Adventure (Dana)

Danny Dimetrodon and the Wonders of Time Travel (James)

The Story of Greenie & Strawberry (Megan)

Two Sauropods Discover the Perils of Advertising (Mary)

2017

This summer we "Grew a Boyfriend."

Our friend started this way, standing 7.0 cm tall at 3PM on 19 June, 2017. BF1

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.

GrowABoyFriend Summer17.xlsx

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.

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

Class of 2017 Grow Beast Stories are here:

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!

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2016

This summer (2016) we have Green Bug for our class Grow Beast. It emerged from its packaging with a length 5.9 cm. GB1

GinormousGrowBug Summer16.xlsx

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. DinoExcelThumb

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:

Class of 2015 Grow Beast Stories are here:

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

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

We started our Grow Seal at 2:30PM on Tuesday after noon,

GBSealOnMeasurements

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.

Class of 2014 Grow Beast Stories are here:

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

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

2013CUIN561ClassGB-1.xls

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 TigerExcelThumb 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:

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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:

PenguinGB-2012-2-2.xls

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....

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

Here are the Grow Beast stories from the class of 2011:

Christine's Grow Beast Page

Zachary Warren's Groovy Growbie Page

Candace's Grow Beast Page

Peter Kashevarof's Grow Beast Page 20111ClassGBsExcelThumb

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 2010:

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

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: GB+Data AF 7-14.xls

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.

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