Lesson Info: Growing Plants Gizmo

Growing Plants

Investigate the growth of three common garden plants: tomatoes, beans, and turnips. You can change the amount of light each plant gets, the amount of water added each day, and the type of soil the seed is planted in. Observe the effect of each variable on plant height, plant mass, leaf color and leaf size. Determine what conditions produce the tallest and healthiest plants. Height and mass data are displayed on tables and graphs.

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LESSON MATERIALS:

Student Exploration Sheet
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Exploration Sheet Answer Key

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Vocabulary Sheet
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Teacher Guide
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Assessment Questions

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Determine what a seed needs to grow into a healthy plant.
Explore the effects of light intensity, water levels, and soil additives on plant growth.
Design a controlled experiment to investigate a question.
Collect data from multiple trials.
Analyze data using tables and graphs.

VOCABULARY:

compost, fertilizer, mass, seed, soil, variable

User Recommendations (26):

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SCIENCE: 4th Grade

By: jodie reed (Texas) | Recommended 3 hours ago
9th graders enjoy this when learning about the scientific method

SCIENCE: 9th Grade | Earth/Space Science

By: Michael Woods (Florida) | Recommended 10 days ago
Growing plants

SCIENCE: 6th Grade, 7th Grade

By: A Runyon (Florida) | Recommended 30 days ago
This GIZMO goes great with our plant unit - great way to change variables and observe results.

SCIENCE: 3rd Grade

By: Cara Piper (Florida) | Recommended 48 days ago
Love it! This is going to be so fun to teach vocabulary for variables! The math is fabulous too, you can really get a lot out of this lesson

SCIENCE: 5th Grade

By: Stacey Shoecraft (South Carolina) | Recommended 80 days ago