Excelling: STEM students conduct investigative research to make claims, collect evidence, analyze data, and argue from evidence that connects to grade-level appropriate Georgia Standards of Excellence. Student research is communicated to a public audience that includes business and community partners.
Students explored the concept of living and non-living things through hands-on observation of an apple. Claim: Apples are living things. Evidence: Students observed that apples contain seeds, which allow them to reproduce, and learned that apple trees require water to grow. Reasoning: Because apples are parts of a plant and come from trees that need water and reproduce through seeds, they meet the criteria for living things.
Students conducted a hands-on investigation exploring how music may impact plant growth. They planted and cared for their own plants, measured growth over time, and used technology such as a spectrum analyzer and plant care app to support their research. Students analyzed how different sound frequencies might influence plant development while practicing observation, measurement, and real-world problem-solving skills.
Control Plants
Plants listenting to Lady Gaga
Students taking care of the plants
Students measuring growth of the plants
Data students gathered of the measurement of the plants based off the different artists played for the plants compared to the controlled plants.
Results of the investigation showing the experiment plants grew at a faster rate than the controlled plants. This also includes how eeach grade level participated as well as future steps.