Bread Mold Experiment

This activity was used to go along with a "Characteristics of Living Things" unit. This product contains directions for setting up an experiment that explores how moisture affects the rate of mold growth on bread. Students are required to identify the parts of the experiment, form a hypothesis, and collect data over the course of 1-2 weeks. This product also contains a graphing component, where students create a double line graph to show how moisture affected mold growth over the course of the experiment. Reading and writing is also incorporated into the assignment, since students are required to read an article and use their data to answer concluding questions.

Topics and concepts covered in this assignment include:

-Parts of an experiment

-Data collection and analysis

-Graphing

-Spontaneous generation