What Affects Growth - Exploring Environmental and Genetic Factors. This activity bundle teaches students how to graph, analyze, and interpret data using real experiments on plants and animals. It includes 4 complete activities and a graphing how-to overview. Comes with teacher-guided solutions and clear explanations to support student understanding. Perfect for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade and meets MS-LS1-5.

✅ Real-World Science Skills: Students learn how to graph, analyze, and interpret data using real experiments on plants and animals.

✅ 4 Complete Activities + Graphing Overview: Includes hands-on graphing tasks and questions on drought, fertilizer, genetics, and habitat size.

✅ Builds Data Literacy: Covers bar and line graphs, axis labeling, titles, and choosing the right graph type for the data.

✅ Answer Key Included: Comes with teacher-guided solutions and clear explanations to support student understanding.

The Activity Bundle Includes

• 4 sets of experimental data to graph
• Discussion questions for each data set
• Answer key
• Graphing overview for students to review prior to starting
• Comes in Word, PDF, and Google formats

Why Choose This Resource?

My 'What Affects Growth - Exploring Environmental and Genetic Factors' is the perfect blend of hands-on engagement and rigorous science learning and interpretation. Designed for grades 6–8, this project helps students make meaningful connections between classroom concepts and the real world through scientific data and analysis.