First Graders become Scientists by:
- asking a question
- gathering information,
- creating a hypothesis,
- test your hypothesis (does it look right? why or why not? What changes can be made?) ,
- revise if needed and share your results.
Investigating Plants: Gathering Information
March 25-26, 2015
Science notebooks were handed out for students to decorate. This will be the place they do all of their planning, observations and asking of questions.
The students learned about why plants are important to us and the life cycle of a plant.
New vocabulary words included:
seed, seed coat, seeds need water, sunlight and air, sprout, grow, blossom
Investigating Seeds: Gathering Information
April 22, 2015
Ask: How can a seed grow? What are the parts of a seed?
Observe a Lima Bean Seed:
What did you notice on the outside of the seed?
What did you notice on the inside of the seed?
The students learned that a seed has 3 parts:
New Vocabulary:
seed coat, embryo, cotyledon, and germinate
What did you notice on the outside of the seed?
What did you notice on the inside of the seed?
The students learned that a seed has 3 parts:
New Vocabulary:
seed coat, embryo, cotyledon, and germinate
Hypothesis: (What we think will happen after we plant our seed)
We think the seed will grow into a big plant that has vegetables.
Planting our Seeds:
April 24, 2015
We think the seed will grow into a big plant that has vegetables.
Planting our Seeds:
April 24, 2015
Today the students learned all about the rock wool to place the seeds in instead of soil. It is rock that has been grind really small and then spun into wool. Then they were able to choose what plants they wanted to plant and off they were.
Thanks to my dear friend, Cathy Mackay, and her expertise on tower gardens, we were able to understand what we were doing with the seeds and why. Below you will find the students smelling basil from her own tower garden inside. They noticed the how much it grew by looking at the roots. Some loved the smell of basil as much as I do.
Thanks to my dear friend, Cathy Mackay, and her expertise on tower gardens, we were able to understand what we were doing with the seeds and why. Below you will find the students smelling basil from her own tower garden inside. They noticed the how much it grew by looking at the roots. Some loved the smell of basil as much as I do.
Testing our hypotheses with starter plants:
We planted some starter plants to watch them grow and see what happens based on our hypothesis.
April 29, 2015
Each student paired with a friend to plant some starter plants that I purchased so we can watch the later stages of a plant grow while our seeds are growing. They also measured how big is there plant today. We will watch for them to continue to grow and record what happens.
We noticed one leaf was yellow and we made a guess that it was probably dying. We used our background knowledge and suggested that the leaf wasn't getting enough sun, air or water. We will look for other things occurring with our plants that don't look right.