Annamarie's Elementary Science Methods I and II Blog

  What question are we investigating? For the second week of Science Methods I, we continued to look at the question “What makes something living?” However, we would look more at the structures of a flower to see what makes something living. We would discuss this in small groups and then have a whole group discussion as a class.  What did we do in lab to investigate this question?  The teacher started the lab by reviewing what we learnt from last week and being able to expand on that information for the next lab. She would then put up a picture of the different parts of the flower to help the small groups be able to critically think about the structures that help flowers be  included as a living thing. In small groups we would pick apart the flower to get more information on the different parts of it. An example of this can be how my small group discussed how the stem is able to get nutrients to the flower and that makes it able to grow. What did we figure out? For o...

 What question are we investigating?  For the first week of Science Methods I, we discussed the question: "What makes something living?" We did this through small group discussion at our tables by looking  at random pictures of natural objects. After discussing these small groups, we had a whole group discussion to compare opinions. What did we do in lab to investigate this question? The teacher started this lab by giving each table cards with images of natural objects. Some objects that were included were a molecule, soil, and a strawberry. Some of the natural objects created more questions over the characteristics of what is living and non-living, An example of this could be the strawberry. My small group debated whether it matters if the strawberry is on the stem or not. Is a strawberry living if it is on the stem? Is it non-living once it is removed from the stem? Another object we looked at was soil. We all agreed that it wasn’t living because parts of the soil can h...