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.