Year 2 Students’ engagement in data modelling and measuring plant growth

This article illustrates a teaching/learning sequence on Fast Plant Growth implemented in the Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Science project, connecting science and mathematics learning in the primary school (https://imslearning.org/). Fast Plant Growth involved a series of nine learning experiences conducted in seven Year 2 classes, over eight weeks and across classes in two schools. The guided inquiry pedagogy involved students in growing their own plants: estimating, measuring, representing and explaining growth of plant height and depth and physical changes over time, along with organising and structuring data to best display results. Students’ ideas about growth and change and various forms of graphical representation were developed well beyond teacher expectations.