My science students have been busy studying meal worms for our animal adaptation unit. Each student received a worm and after some initial observations, they designed some experiments to watch worm behavior. We had groups of 5th graders testing which food and color meal worms prefer, how they react to cold and warm temperatures and how each worm's speed could be changed. The groups had to record and graph their data to show what they learned. This is called scientific inquiry and is the basis for a lot of the science we do in fifth grade.
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