THE SEED EXPERIMENT
Are seeds living or non-living? What do they need to grow? Is soil essential?
This experiment requires 6 plastic cups, 2 containing a small amount of soil, 2 with a tad of water, and 2 with some cotton wool.
Are seeds living or non-living? What do they need to grow? Is soil essential?
This experiment requires 6 plastic cups, 2 containing a small amount of soil, 2 with a tad of water, and 2 with some cotton wool.
- In each cup plant a bunch of alfalfa seeds.
- Separate the cups into light and dark environments. Each different environment should contain one of each cup. E.g. place one of the soil, water and cotton wool cups on a windowsill in sunlight and the others in a dark cupboard.
- Make a prediction about which seeds will grow into plants and those that wont. Write this down and keep for reflection later.
- Leave the plants in their separate environments for a couple of weeks, making sure they are watered daily.
- At the end of the experiment, compare your predictions with your results and explain your findings with your class.
Consider the following questions:
Which seeds began to grow? Why?
Were the seeds able to grow out of soil? How?
What are essential components of growing a plant?
Which seeds began to grow? Why?
Were the seeds able to grow out of soil? How?
What are essential components of growing a plant?
'References'
All photos sourced from Google.
All photos sourced from Google.