Science
Workshop Learning Intention
The Living Achievement
World Objective: Ask
questions, find
evidence, explore
simple models, and
carry out appropriate
investigations to
develop simple
explanations.
Achievement
Objective: Explain how
living things are suited
to their particular habitat
and how they respond
to environmental
changes, both natural
and human-induced.
WALT: make
predictions and carry
out a simple
investigation
Term 2, Week 7 2017
Activities
Science: Part One
1. Describe living characteristics of plants MRS GREN and record on an A3 paper.
2. Follow up and recap from homework task what is a hypothesis, variable, and control.
3. The students will form groups of five based on what they think will happen
4. As a group discuss what seed will have the best conditions to germinate and form a
group hypothesis.
5. Each group will have their own experiment as follows: Seed One provide with water
and warmth (by a computer), seed two provide with sunlight and water, Seed three
provide with soil and water, Seed Four provide with dark and water, Seed Five cotton
wool and water, Seed Six quiet and water. (teacher resource cupboard in office or in
the whiteboard cupboard for the darkness).
6. Ask each group to write up their method for what they did.
7. Provide each group with their tracking sheet for their plants
8. Each group need to nominate one person to monitor and water their seeds each day
for the next seven days.
 Part Two
1. After seven days the students will analyze their results in their groups. They will write
up their results, conclusion, and if their prediction was correct as a group.
2. Class discussion: what each group found, was there similarities, differences. Why do
they think that one germinated better than another? What are the potential flaws with
this experiment?

Template: scenario, hypothesis, variables, control, results, conclusion, predicition.

Have a space to draw every denario not just theres, and space for the potential flaws (evaluation)

Worksheet One

Introduction

Draw your observations of the growing plants. Be sure to record your group number and the number of days the
plant has been growing.
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Scenario One: You will need:

Plastic Cup Seeds Water warmth

Scenario Two: You will need:

plastic cup seed water sunlight

Scenario Three: You will need:

Plastic cup seed water soil

Scenario Four: You will need:

Plastic cup seed Water darkness

Scenario Five: You will need:

Plastic cup seed water cotton wool

Scenario Six: you will need

Plastic cup seed water quiet