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The Great Bean Race
Gauging Student Needs Assessment
What are the perfect conditions for growing a bean plant?
How can we find out?
Our K-W-L
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What we
Know
about growing plants
(sample responses)
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What we
Wonder
about growing plants
(sample responses)
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What we
Learned
about growing plants
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- Plants need water.
- Plants need soil.
- Plants need light.
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- How much water is too much? too little?
- How do soils differ?
- How much light? What kind of light?
- How do plants eat?
- How do plants grow?
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To answer our Wonder questions we need to...
(sample responses)
- Do research to find out how plants grow and eat
- Set up experiments to answer our questions about plant needs (water, light, and soil)
- Make predictions about the best conditions and then try to answer them
- Collect our data carefully
- Make graphs and models to help display our work
- Compare our results with others
- Draw conclusions based on our experiments and research
Why are plants important to us?
Could humans and animals live without plants?
Let's brainstorm what we think...
Plants: (sample responses)
- Help us breathe
- Give us shade
- Are homes for animals
- Are pretty to look at
- Give us compost
- Give animals food
- Give us food
How Does It All Connect?
(sample responses)
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