PA Germination report

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This is a digital lesson to help you conduct your first experiment and put together your first report.

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This lesson contains 20 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

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Welcome! 
This is a digital lesson to help you conduct your first experiment and put together your first report.

Click me!
When you see a button like this, it will provide some extra information or explanation 

Slide 1 - Slide

Instruction: 
Instruction video
https://youtu.be/WM4MgjxWgqE

Slide 2 - Slide

Lets start with a question:
When will seeds germinate fastest?

Slide 3 - Open question

Practical activity Germination
What are you going to do? 
  • Design an experiment in pairs
  • Conduct this experiment
  • Write a report
  • Check your work and hand it in! 

Evaluation: U, D, S, G
check form on ‘studiewijzer’ 
words
To design: ontwerpen

To conduct an experiment: uitvoeren van een experiment

Report: verslag
Germination: do you know what this word means? 
if not: check your textbook, unit 2, basics 1 

Transfer to your PIF-list! 

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What do you already know?
Click the objectives

part 1/2
A
I know why I have to use more seeds in this experiment
B
I can explain what a control group is
C
I can think of a logical problem definition
D
I can write a correct hypotheses

Slide 5 - Quiz

What do you already know?
Click the objectives

part 2/2
A
I can write a conclusion based upon the results of my experiment
B
i can design and conduct an experiment
C
i can write a report and check it with the marking sheet
D
i can draw a table and graph for my results

Slide 6 - Quiz

Which materials did I use for this experiment?

Slide 7 - Open question

Background information
In this experiment you will find out what is of influence on the germination of cress seeds. 

First watch a video of the CONTROL experiment: the normal situation. 

Pay attention: there will be some questions after.... 


Slide 8 - Slide

How many seeds did I use in this experiment?

Slide 9 - Open question

Why do I also check the temperature?

Slide 10 - Open question

What will you investigate?
Now we have seen the normal situation, you can change 1 thing. 

For example: use a different type of seeds:




hint
Will tomato seeds germinate faster than cress seeds? 

Slide 11 - Slide

Instead of cotton wool you could use...
or replace water with....
Hint
Will cress seeds germinate slower, when I use cat litterbox filling instead of cotton wool? 
hint
will cress seeds germinate faster when I replace water with lemon juice?   

Slide 12 - Slide

Design your experiment 
  • Problem definition: 
  • Hypothesis:
  • Materials:
  • Method: 



Choice
Will you write your report on paper, or will you use Word or another app on your iPad? 
Help?
check textbook page 42, 57 and 58
Please hand in your proposal

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Start experiment
  • Collect materials
  • Conduct experiment 
  • Clean up 
  • Create table to collect results

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Slide 15 - Slide

hint
Copy the table and add a row for your own results 

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Results
  1. Fill in table
  2. Draw graph or bar chart


Example table: results control group
How to draw a graph in Excel?
how to draw a graph?

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Conclusion
  1. What was the question?
  2. What were the results of your experiment?
  3. Was your hypothesis right?

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Checklist 
Problem definition
Is it a logical question?
Is there only 1 difference with the control group? 
Hypothesis
Did you use:

If...... then..... 

for example: 
If I replace water with lemon juice, then my seeds will germinate faster
Materials
Are all materials listed, and how much / many? 
Experiment
Explain exactly what you did? 
Results : table
a table with: 
quantities and units 

control group results
results of your test
Results: Graph
Quantities and units on X- axes and Y-axes

2 lines : control group and your test results


Conclusion
Answer the question: 
What were the results of your experiment?
Was your hypothesis right?

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Hand in your report
Upload your report in 
Magister @ 'opdrachten'
-> BIO PA germination. 


Please fill in the evaluation form (individual)
Tip!
Did you write your report on paper? Take a picture and it hand in.

Please make sure i can read it.

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