Students learn a simple technique for quantifying the amount of photosynthesis that occurs in a given period of time, using a common water plant (Elodea). They can use this technique to compare the amounts of photosynthesis that occur under conditions of low and high light levels. Before they begin the experiment, however, students must come up with a well-worded hypothesis to be tested. After running the experiment, students pool their data to get a large sample size, determine the measures of central tendency of the class data, and then graph and interpret the results.

Concepts

engineering, light energy, photosynthesis, stem

Show More Show Less

Additional Tags

measures of central tendency, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, hypothesis, photosynthesis process

Show More Show Less

Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)