Mold Inquiry Experiment

Lesson Plan - Get It!

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Think about a time when food in your home went bad.

What did it look like? What did it smell like? Share your story with your parent or teacher.

In this lesson, you will conduct a mold experiment. The first thing a scientist always does is to ask a question about what might happen during the experiment. Read this lesson's scientific question:

"How do vegetables change when they go bad?"

During this experiment, you will study how a vegetable changes as it goes bad. Before you begin the experiment, read the experiment description below:

• You will keep a vegetable in a sealed container for three weeks. During the three weeks, you will study how the vegetable changes over time.
• You will create a hypothesis (prediction) about how the vegetable will change over time. Your hypothesis should focus on what will happen to the vegetable if it is left untouched for three weeks.
• With the help of your parent or teacher, work together to create a hypothesis. For example, "If I leave a tomato in a sealed container for three weeks, the tomato will turn blue."

Once you have come up with your hypothesis, move on to the Got It? section to begin the experiment.