App-lying the scientific method

Hello, Families!

Much of what I employ in the classroom is the brain child of someone else. 
Our apple science experiment helped us explore the scientific method.
All credit goes to Deanna Jump, teacher, blogger extraordinaire for these kid friendly posters:

I explained to the children simply:

• Scientists observe (look)
• Scientists ask a question
• Scientists make a guess
• Scientists do an experiment
• Scientists record data
• Scientists come to a conclusion 

Our initial question which shaped our experiment is what will happen to the apple slices if we add lemon juice?
We took two apple slices and placed them each in a bowl.  With our droppers, we poured lemon juice over one apple slice and left the other apple slice without lemon juice.  We had absolutely no idea what would happen so we went on to the experiment stage:

We worked on recording our data by drawing before and after pictures of our apples.
We came to the conclusion that some of the apples turned brown and others didn't.
Our young scientists are not daunted, we have a new experiment using the scientific method coming soon...

Fondly,
Mrs. C.