Variation
- Immersion Unit
Resources
- Faculty for SCALE project
- California secondary science standards
- National Science Education Standards
Photos
Inquiry
Graphic Organizers
- Inspiration - Concept mapping software
- Concept mapping - Develop a concept map of the food web
- "Scientific Method" - concept map
- Mind Map of prior knowledge
- Frayer model- template | -Step 11
Variability - Growth and Development and Genetic
- Compare growth of the same species in different environments
- Genetic variability
Inquiry - Design experiments in seed germination
Potential independent variables to consider
- salinity - sodium chloride | AP Environmental Sci | Published research | Serial dilution
- salinity - potassium chloride - Serial dilution
- sugar concentration - sucrose - Serial dilution
- light intensity - cellophane | probeware
- light wavelentgh
- temperature - probeware | Brassica rapa distribution | 2
- hormones - GA, IAA
- substrate - soil, paper, towels
- fertilizer - NPK
- inhibitors - herbicides
- nutrients - agar plates
- pH - probeware | pH paper
Potential dependent variables to consider
- length | calipers | grid
- germination rate
- color
- root hairs digital microscope
Experimental Design
- equipment
- observation vs. inference
- silk plants
- raisins & 7-up
- dependent variables - measurement - graph paper
- series
- independent variables
- dilutions
- measurement - probeware
- controls
- convention for gaphing data
- types of graphs
- germination data (xls)
- climate graphs (xls)
- Step 10 - investigation rubric
Graphing
Research