We have been learning about what plants need to grow. Today we started an ongoing investigation to test if our ideas were correct.

We started by discussing how a seed could start to grow.

We learnt new vocabulary to describe the growing process such as dormant and germinate.

Next, we split into groups and were told which condition our plant would or would not have before making a prediction about whether our seed would grow or not.

We planted our seeds and made sure we were conducting a fair test by only removing one of the conditions in each group and having one group with all conditions.

Finally we placed all our our planted seeds in a similar place to gain the same amount of sunlight and air, all except the ones we are testing for not having any light which had to go in the cupboard!

We will keep monitoring the seeds over the next few weeks to see what happens!