The teacher should be sure the students know how to collect data and keep accurate records. Students should be familiar with the spreadsheet application available for this activity. They should be comfortable entering data in worksheets and generating graphs. See Creating a Spreadsheet . This is an excellent lesson for the one -four computer classroom.
Student groups can take turns entering data into their spreadsheets during the day.
Since data is collected by pencil and recorded in journals or notebooks, it can be easily transferred to computer any time. We suggest you assign students in groups of four so that two students can monitor the cool location and two can monitor the warm location. Inc. Sow Organic seeds catalog Interdisciplinary activities We want to acknowledge the direction of Dr. Norm Lownds in designing this experiment and in other work we have done with teachers and plants. He is a professor, and curator of the 4H Children's Garden, at Michigan State University. More information is available at Dr. Lownds ' web site.