The document outlines an experiment to determine if playing voice recordings to houseplants promotes their growth. It describes the hypothesis, methods, variables involved, data collection, and the conclusion process. The findings should be published for scientific feedback and validation.

1. Talking to Plants Virtual Lab

2. State the Question:
Will playing voice recordings to your
houseplants make them grow bigger?
Plants need water, sunlight, carbon dioxide,
soil
Collect Information:

3. Form a Hypothesis:
IF you play voice recordings to plants,
THEN, they will grow bigger
OR...
IF you play voice recordings to plants,
THEN they will grow normally.

4. Test the Hypothesis:
Get 2 plants
Play voice recordings to plant A
Don’t play recordings to plant B
They get the same amount of light.
They get the same amount of water.
They get the same kind of soil.

5. Terms you need:
Control: No sound played for plants –
silence
Independent variables: sound played for
plants- nice talk, mean talk, rock music,
classical music.
Dependent variables: growth of the plants –
how much they grew.

6. Observe: (this is part of the
test/experiment)
Measure the mass of each plant after 3
months of growth.

7. Record and Study Data:
Write down the mass of each of the plants
in a data table.
Graph the results to get a clear picture of
which greenhouse grew the biggest plants.

8. Draw a Conclusion
Was your hypothesis correct?
Example of a conclusion would be: My
hypothesis was not correct; the data from
the experiment show that playing music to
plants helps them grow bigger.

9. Publish your Findings:
Scientists will tell other scientists about
their experiments by writing in scientific
journals (kind of like magazines for science
nerds).
Then other scientists can build off of what
has already been done.
Or they can do the same experiment to
double check their friend’s work to see if
their results are really true.

10. More on control and variables:
Control – The part of the experiment you do
not change – the part that is the same, just
like it would normally be. Nothing is
changed.
Independent variable – The part of the
experiment you change – what you are
testing.
Dependent variable – what changes because
of the independent variable. This is usually
part of the results of the experiment.