A seed, water, and sunlight. A seed, water, but no sunlight. A seed, sunlight, but no water. Young biologists are ask to infer what will happen to seeds given five different growing conditions. 

Concepts

inferences, reading comprehension strategies, plants

Show More Show Less

Additional Tags

english language arts

Show More Show Less

Instructional Ideas

• Plant five seeds in cups, provide the growing conditions described in the worksheet, record the kids' predictions and observations

Classroom Considerations

• The ninth in a series of 22 inference worksheets
• The exercise assumes participants have knowledge of growing conditions

Pros

• The exercise asks kids to use what they know about plant growth to infer results

Cons

• None

Common Core

RI.2.1 RI.3.1