Lesson Plan: Covering Dependent and Independent Variables in Science

Assessment · Grade 6 · Science

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Grade

Name: Engage
Minutes: 15
Purpose: Surface students' prior intuitions about fairness in testing by confronting them with a visually ambiguous 'unfair' experiment, creating the need to identify what went wrong — setting up the conceptual tension that the Explore and Explain phases will resolve around independent variables, dependent variables, and controls.
Materials

Q1. A student wants to test whether the color of light affects how fast a plant grows. She uses three plants: one under red light, one under blue light, and one under white light. All plants are the same size, in the same soil, and get the same amount of water. (a) What is the independent variable? (b) What is the dependent variable? (c) Name one thing she controlled and explain why controlling it matters.

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