Teachers want to keep these ideas in mind throughout the unit to help guide instruction and to emphasize with learners.
- Plants need soil nutrients, light and water.
- Plant growth is affected by quantities of nutrients, light, and water available.
- Controlling variables enables the effect of each to be identified and studied.
- Flowering plants must be pollinated in order to produce seeds.
- Bees are effective pollinators.
- One seed has the potential to produce one plant.
- The number of seeds produced by a single plant is affected by such variables as nutrients, light, water, and the extent of pollination.
- The orientation of a plant’s growth is affected by gravity and light.
Inquiry Skills
Inquiry skills are those skills students use to make sense of their science investigations. They tell what the students will actually be doing in science. The Inquiry Skills for Experimenting with Plants are:
Observe
Record
Collaborate
Measure
Explain
Collect Data
Control Variables
Hypothesize
Quantify
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Quantify
Communicate
Predict
Infer
Ask Questions
Compare
Experiment
Interpret Data
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