In Year 3 in science, our unit of work at the moment is plants. We have been learning all about features of plants and have been identifying and describing the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers and conditions they need to grow.

This lesson we have been exploring the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and what will happen if we take away one of those requirements. To do this, we carried out a comparative and fair test investigation – we worked in groups of 3, identified the requirements and which variable we would be taking away to check and how we would make it a fair test and decided we would have a control plat and one that would have a variable taken away.

We made predictions for what would happen to the plant that has all the requirements needed to grow and then to the plant that had one variable taken away. We explained our methods and drew diagrams.

After that, we planted our plants making sure that if they both had water then they had the same amounts, the ones without light were put in a dark place and if they didn’t have warmth were left outside.

We will keep measuring both plants to conclude the investigations.