Scientific Method Growing a Plant

Scientific Method Growing a Plant

Aim: To learn about the scientific method and work on science skills.

Observation (find this page in your packet)

• Science Skill: (observe) use your 5 senses (seeing, touching, smelling, hearing, tasting) to gather information

• What do you see?

• What does it feel like? (hard, soft, smooth, rough)

• What does it smell like?

• What noises does it make?

• What does it taste like?

Observation

• Use your eyes to make observation

• What color are the leaves?

• Do you think the plant is healthy? Why?

• Do you see roots?

• What is inside the pot to help the plant grow?

Multiple Choice

What sense did you use to make observation?

• hear

• see

• taste

Ask a question

• Ask a question you want answered

• Do seeds need water to grow?

Multiple Choice

What question are you trying to answer in this lab?

• Do seeds need light to grow?

• Do seeds need water to grow?

• Do seeds need soil to grow?

Make a hypothesis

• A possible answer to your question

• Science Skill: Predict: Use information gathered from your observation to make a guess what will happen

• If seeds are water, then they will grow because seeds need water.

Poll

What is your hypothesis (guess)?

• If seeds are watered, then they will grow.

• If seeds are not watered, then they will grow.

Do an experiment or test

• A test to see if your hypothesis is right.

• Change only one thing (variable)

• Keep everything else the same

• Someone else who did this experiment should get the same answer

Experiment (Variables)

• Science Skill: Compare and Contract (what is the same or different)

  
  

• What are the same about these two plants?

• Same pots, Same plants

Multiple Select

Check the two things that are the same?

• pots

• plants

• nothing is the same

Experiment (variable)

• What is different about the two plants?

• one is watered and one is not

Multiple Choice

What is different?

• plant

• type of pot

• one is watered

Do your experiment

• Test your hypothesis

• See if your results are the same each time?

Multiple Choice

What are you testing?

• question

• hypothesis

• observation

Collect Data

• Keep records of what you observe

• Use words, number, drawings, tables graphs

• Types of graphs (bar, pie, line)

Multiple Choice

What kind of graph is this?

• line

• bar

• pie

Multiple Choice

What kind of graph is this?

• line

• bar

• pie

Multiple Choice

What kind of graph is this?

• line

• pie

• bar

Tell your conclusion

• Share what you have learned and if your hypothesis was right

• Blue: no water

• Orange: water

• Which plant grew?

Multiple Choice

What was the conclusion?

• Seeds need water to grow.

• Seeds need sunlight to grow.

• Seeds need soil to grow.

Multiple Choice

What do you think would happen if someone else did the same experiment?

• They would also say seeds need water to grow.

• They would say seeds do not need water to grow.

Poll

What would you want to test next?

• seeds in different types of soil

• seeds in different types of light

• seeds in different types of pots

Bring to class tomorrow

-bag of skittles (small)

-paper towel

-scientific method skills and method packet