Life Cycle - Plants (6A)
Lab 

PROBLEM: Do all plants "bend" toward light?

PREDICTION:  

MATERIALS: rooted plants, seedling, soil, milk container

PROCEDURE: 
Exercise 1
. Duplicate Darwin's and Boysen-Jensen's experiment as described by your teacher. Describe what you did and record what happens on each day that you observed the plant with and without a cap, and with no top.

 

DAY____

DAY____

DAY____

DAY____

NO CAP

       

CAP

       

NO TOP

       

Exercise 2. Plant rootings as described by your teacher. Make sure that you water the plants and that they are all in the sample place. Describe how they bend for one week.

DAY OF OBSERVATION

TYPE OF PLANT

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

 

             

 

             

 

             

CONCLUSIONS: Is there a difference amongst the plants?

 

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