Once a week at sunrise, mark the location of the sun. Students can copy the location onto their own sheets when they come to class. Or you may wish to have the students do this activity at home. Using information from Sunset Western Gardening or other garden book, have students research planting time of cilantro, corn, beans, and radishes. When the sun calendars are complete, students can outline preferred planting times on their pictures of the horizon.
Scientists work in a very methodical fashion.
Maintaining accurate records of observations and measurements is a key component in this systematic method. Every student should keep accurate chronological records, possibly in a scientific investigation journal or science lab book, of everything done in the investigation. These notes should be placed within each student's portfolio for assessment purposes. Resources for basic information are essential to scientific investigations. Many of these resources are available to the general public and contain lots of information on a variety of subjects.