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.
Launch GizmoGrowing 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.
5 Minute Preview
Use for 5 minutes a day.
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
LESSON MATERIALS:
FROM OUR COMMUNITY
User Lesson Materials (showing 5 of 23):
Growing Plants Constructing Explanations Prompt
This worksheet allows students to evaluate several graphs of plant data and match them to the correct exp... (more)erimental setup. They then describe the evidence that supports their claims.
Best For:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade Science
Water as Independant variable
This is a supplemental worksheet to allow students to run additional trials using water as the independan... (more)t variable. It has an additional chart to gather data and two questions about student's conclusion.
Best For:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade Science
Growing plants: variable light
This is a supplemental worksheet to allow students to run additional trials using light as the independan... (more)t variable. It has an additional chart to gather data and two questions about student's conclusion.
Best For:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade Science
Scientific Method Take Home Test
This is my scientific method unit final. I adapted the Student Exploration into a test due 1 week after b... (more)eing assigned. The idea is for them to practice the process. Use the 3 variations separately for differentiating, or combine one of the guided labs with the "ask your own question" lab.
Best For:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade Science
Plant Growth Lab
used with a fourth grade class after introducing the concepts on independent & dependent variables and co... (more)nstants (I used a mail merge from excel with their student log-in info so each child had it preloaded at the top of their paper
Best For:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade Science
Show Remaining Lesson Materials (18)
User Recommendations (showing 5 of 60):
Great activities! High student engagement!
Recommended for: Middle School Life ScienceGizmo User from Ohio
It would be great to take your ecosystems and add something about the biodiversity of life within them so 2nd grade can use to meet NGSS
Recommended for: Middle School Life ScienceGizmo User from California
Great to teach Variables!
Recommended for: Middle School Life ScienceGizmo User from International, unspecified
Great for just learning Experments
Recommended for: Middle School Life ScienceGizmo User from Virginia
Show Remaining Recommendations (55)