Plants!

We have launched our new Science Unit: Plants!  Yesterday we recorded our wonderings about Plants and thought about which wonderings we were interested in exploring further.

Students worked hard on recording their three top wonderings and designed an informative Plants title page in their Science notebooks.  Some students had a little bit of time to begin researching some of their inquiry questions.  For example, one question the students were excited to find out was, 'Is coral a plant?'.  

Today we watched a short video clip about Plants and started our first Plant Experiment.  The Grade 3 classes at St. Cecilia are participating in the Tomatosphere project.  We planted two groups of tomato seeds.  One group of seeds went to space and one group did not.  We will observe and record the date of germination and submit our data.  At this point we do not know which seeds went to space.  The students recorded their hypothesis on whether or not they think the seeds from space will grow or not, in their Science notebooks.  We are excited to see what happens!!

When our tomato plants are ready, we will plant them in the St. Cecilia garden bed.

To learn more about the Tomatosphere project, click the link below!

Tomatosphere Project Info