Can Music Help Plants Grow?
An email in which Maya tells her science teacher about her and her friend's science fair experiment, whether music helps plants grow, and asks to use a quiet room.
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1Dear Mrs. Peretz,
2I am writing about my project for the science fair next month. My friend Adi and I want to if music helps plants grow.
3Our plan is simple. We are going to plant beans in six . Three will stay in a quiet room, and three will "listen" to music for two hours every day. All the will get the same water and the same . Every Friday we will the plants and write the in a table.
4We have one problem. We need a quiet room at school for the . Can we use the science ? We to keep it clean.
5Thank you,
6Maya, class 6B
📘 Glossary
- science fair - a show where students present science projects
- check - to find out if something is true
- pots - containers where plants grow
- sunlight - light from the sun
- measure - to find out the size or amount of something
- results - what you find out at the end of an experiment
- lab - a room where science experiments are done
- promise - to say that you will definitely do something
Questions
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1. What do Maya and Adi want to check?Finding details
2. How many pots will "listen" to music?Making inferences
3. Why will all the pots get the same water and the same sunlight?Finding details
4. When will they measure the plants?Purpose and structure
5. What does Maya ask Mrs. Peretz for?Reference words
6. In "We promise to keep it clean", the word "it" means…Finding details
7. Where will Maya and Adi write the results?
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