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Lesson 5 Investigate Conditions Needed For Germination

The document describes an experiment investigating the conditions needed for seed germination. Students placed seeds in jars with moist soil or dry soil in both warm and cold places. More seeds germinated in the jar with moist soil in the warm place. The results are shown in a table tracking seed germination over 8 days. More seeds germinated where it was warm and moist compared to where it was cold or dry.

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Lesson 5 Investigate Conditions Needed For Germination

The document describes an experiment investigating the conditions needed for seed germination. Students placed seeds in jars with moist soil or dry soil in both warm and cold places. More seeds germinated in the jar with moist soil in the warm place. The results are shown in a table tracking seed germination over 8 days. More seeds germinated where it was warm and moist compared to where it was cold or dry.

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Investigate conditions

needed for germination


5th Grade A-B
Read and answer
1. Class 5 is doing an investigation about seeds. Look at the pictures.
What are they investigating?

a.Do seeds need air to


germinate?
b.Do seeds need water ?
Read and answer

2. Suzy is growing sunflower seeds. She thinks


that seeds will grow better in a bigger pot. She
puts one seed into each four different sized
pots. She puts them in the same warm place.
What does Suzy do to make it a fair test?(=)

• She puts the same number of seeds.


• She puts the seeds in a warm place.
Read and say
Jamila and Lily are investigating how a seed grows.
• Jamila puts one seed in a plastic pot.
• Lily adds soil and water.
• They leave the seed to germinate.
• They look at the seed every day for 8 days.

a. Seeds need water to germinate. Say one other thing seeds need to
germinate. Seeds need water and air / warmth
b. What are the materials they use? Plastic pot, water, soil and one
seed.
What do people and pets need for growth?

health
water
food exercise

sleep
Being loved
Investigate conditions needed for germination

1. Materials:
Moist soil Dry soil

Seeds
05 seeds in each
jar Glass jar
2. Procedure:
• Place one jar of dry soil and one jar of moist soil in a warm place.

Moist soil Dry soil

• Place one jar of dry soil and one jar of moist soil in a cold place.

Moist soil Dry soil

Moist= with water


Dry = with no water
3. What is your prediction:

I predict / think that more seeds will germinate in the jar with
moist soil in a warm place.

Moist soil Dry soil


4. Look at the results in the table.
Days Number of seeds germinated
Moist soil in Dry soil in Moist soil in Dry soil in cold
warm place warm place cold place place.
2 2 0 0 0
4 4 0 1 0
6 5 0 2 0
8 5 0 3 0

a. What other way we use to show the results?


• Bar graph
• Line graph
5. Write and draw your conclusion:
• More seeds germinated in the jar with moist soil in a warm place.

Investigate conditions needed for germination


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0
Moist soil in warm place Dry soil in warm place Moist soil in cold place Dry soil in cold place
Serie 1 Serie 2 Serie 3 Serie 4
Monday 20th April,2020
Notebook
Investigating germination
1. Class 5 investigated germination. They put seeds on moist cotton
wool into plastic bags. They put the plastic bags in different places:
in the freezer, in the fridge, in the drawer and on the desk. They put
10 seeds in each bag. These are the results:

In the In the In the On the freezer


freezer fridge drawer desk
0 4 9 9
fridge

a. How can you make sure this is a fair test? desk


• They used the same number of seeds.
• They used the same moist cotton. drawer
b. Where did the most seeds germinate?
Notebook
• In the _____________________

c. Where did the fewest seeds germinate?


• In the _____________________
Investigating Germination
9
1.2
8
d. What is your conclusion? 71
6
More seeds germinated in ______place.5
0.8

0.6
4
e. Draw a bar chart:
3
0.4
2
0.2
1
00
freezer fridge drawer desk
seeds Columna1 seeds3 seeds4

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