Write a Report On the Wisconsin Fast Plant (Brassica) Experiment
Questions to guide your writing:
I. What did the experiment allow us to test? How could
this information help us? What were all the variables and the control? What was
your variable? What did you hypothesize might happen?
II. Using your observations, data, and graph information,
describe the growth of your plant over the month (35 days).
III. What were the final results of the experiment? Compare the
growth of your plant, and or a typical plant in the fertilizer group to the
expected growth of the control group. Why did you plant do better or
worse? Include your
thoughts if this was a fair experiment here, or write about that in a separate
paragraph (See V below).
IV. What can you conclude or interpret from our/your
experiment? If you could do another experiment on the Brassica plant growth, what would you test
next?
V.* Talk about a fair experiment. Was this experiment
fair? What would you do next time to make it better? What
kind of observations would you be more careful about making?
VI.* What did you learn about the anatomy of plants and how
they are pollinated?
VII.* What did you learn about the anatomy, life, and
functions of bees and how they are interdependent with flowers.
Required: (Completed in Journals)
Write a Report On the Wisconsin Fast Plant (Brassica) Experiment
Suggested format. Note: Numbers I-IV are required. V. was done in Journal. V-VI-VII are optional.
Questions to guide your writing:
I. What did the experiment allow us to test? How could
this information help us? What were all the variables and the control? What was
your variable? What did you hypothesize might happen?
II. Using your observations, data, and graph information,
describe the growth of your plant over the month (35 days).
III. What were the final results of the experiment? Compare the
growth of your plant, and or a typical plant in the fertilizer group to the
expected growth of the control group. Why did you plant do better or
worse? Include your
thoughts if this was a fair experiment here, or write about that in a separate
paragraph (See V below).
IV. What can you conclude or interpret from our/your
experiment? If you could do another experiment on the Brassica plant growth, what would you test
next?
V.* Talk about a fair experiment. Was this experiment
fair? What would you do next time to make it better? What
kind of observations would you be more careful about making?
VI.* What did you learn about the anatomy of plants and how
they are pollinated?
VII.* What did you learn about the anatomy, life, and
functions of bees and how they are interdependent with flowers.
Required: (Completed in Journals)
VIII. Write a conclusion about how this experiment helped
you learned the scientific method. How did you enjoy the process of
observing, drawing, measuring, and recording the plant growth? What did
you learn about yourself as a beginning scientist? How strongly would you like
to do another science experiment in the next few months? What were the most elpful
or important things you learned about in the experiment and research?
