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Question and Hypothesis

Independent Investigation: Plants

Day 151of 180
Week 31of 36
30Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Understand what a scientific question is

2

Learn to create a simple hypothesis

3

Develop curiosity about plant growth

📖 Scripture Connection

Genesis 1:11

“God said, 'Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in them, on the earth;' and it was so.”

— Genesis 1:11 (WEB)

Demonstrates God's design in plant growth and scientific investigation

📦 Materials Needed

  • Observation journal
  • Pencil
  • Seeds
  • BibleMouse Science Worksheet
  • Colored markers
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (5 min)

Introduce the concept of asking scientific questions about plants

💭 Review Question: What did we learn about patterns in plant growth last week?
2Teaching (10 min)

Guide children in forming testable questions about plant growth

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • A good scientific question can be answered by an experiment
  • Hypothesis is an educated guess about what might happen
  • We use observation and evidence to test our hypothesis
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What questions do you have about how plants grow?
  • What might help a plant grow better?
3Activity: BibleMouse Plant Investigation Planner (12 min)
planning

Children create their own plant growth investigation question and hypothesis

📝 Instructions:
  1. Choose a question about plant growth
  2. Write your question in your observation journal
  3. Predict what you think will happen
  4. Draw a picture of your prediction
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Parent helps child form a simple question

Challenge: Create multiple hypotheses to test

4Closing (3 min)

Share and discuss investigation plans

📝 Review Questions:
  • What question are you going to investigate?
  • What do you think will happen?

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll set up our plant growth experiment

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Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Second graders are developing scientific thinking skills

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Encourage creativity in questioning
  • Help child focus on one clear, simple question
  • Validate all questions as important
🤔 Common Struggles:

Children may need help forming testable questions

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Curiosity and excitement about scientific investigation

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Read a BibleMouse storybook about plant growth
  • Create a poster showing the scientific method

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