So a few plastic cups, some cotton wool and bean seeds later and we had a slightly unscientific experiment on the go. We learnt what a hypothesis was and decided whether our North, South or East beans would do best (no West window in the kitchen so ruled that out).
We covered a lot of ground in a few days : what do plants need to grow, what is photosynthesis, how do external conditions affect our seeds, why were they growing in a particular direction, what did we control.
As with all experiments where the variables (would I remember to remind the boys to water them?!) are uncontrolled, our hypothesis was wrong. But we wrote up our results and planted out the seeds so I'm calling it a success!
