Term 3 Week 3 - Setting up our Science Experiment

On Friday we completed the next step of our science experiment.  To make growing wheat seeds into an experiment we needed to first think about what we knew about the things plants need to grow healthy and strong.

We worked with our talking buddies and then shared back to the class and made this list of the things we think plants need to grow best:
* Sunshine
* Water
* Soil
* Caring
* Worms

From this list we decided the main thing we could change about how the wheat seeds could be grown in our classroom environment was the soil.  So we will be experimenting to see what type of soil the wheat seedlings will grow best in.

Each group has 2 seedlings growing in sand, 2 seedlings growing in normal garden soil (from the current school garden) and 2 seedlings growing in a potting mix.  We will be looking to see if the type of soil makes a difference to how big and strong the wheat seeds grow.  We put the other pots in a box on top of the cubbies to also see if less light will make a difference to how big and strong our wheat seeds grow.

Link to Experiment Slides