Activity 1: Narrate the Story
- After reading or listening to the story, narrate the story events aloud using your own words.
Activity 2: Optimized Design Activity
Materials: Plastic Baggie, Sugar Water, and Flour
- Place a small amount of sugar water (nectar) into the (Lady's-slipper) bag.
- Moisten the opening of the bag and dust it with flour.
- Partially close the bag so your hand may barely slip through.
- Pretend your hand is Lady (or Lord) Bumblebee.
- Slip through the opening of the bag to sip the nectar within.
- When you remove your hand, what happens?
Activity 3: Complete Your Experiment - Which Soil is Best for Beans?
- Water the seeds over the final week of the experiment. Keep the sand, rocks, or soil damp over the duration of the experiment.
- Complete your last week of observations of the bean seeds.
- Which seeds have growing well? Which seeds are doing poorly?
- Use the gathered information to create a final field book entry on your experiment.
Activity 4: Complete a Field Book Entry
As you conduct your experiment, complete page 21 in 'Science Field Book for Third Grade.'