BIKINI BOTTOM EXPERIMENTS

Scientific Method

FLOWER POWER Sponge Bob loves to garden & wants to grow

pink flowers for his friend, Sandy. He bought a special fertilizer called Flower

Power to see if it would help his plants produce more flowers.

He plants: 2 plants Same size Separate containers Same amount of potting soil 1 plant in a sunny window (watered everyday

with fertilized water) 1 plant on a shelf in a closet (waters with plain

water)

FLOWER POWER What did Sponge Bob do wrong in this experiment?

What should he do to test the effectiveness of Flower Power fertilizer?

Write an experiment.

SUPER SNAILS Gary is not the smartest snail in Bikini

Bottom, but he thinks he can improve his brain power by eating Super Snail Snacks.

Gary recruits Sponge Bob and several snail friends to help him with an experiment.

The snails ate 1 snack with each meal every day for 3 weeks.

Sponge Bob made a test and gave it to the snails before they started eating the snacks and then again after the 3 weeks was over.

SUPER SNAIL RESULTS

Test ResultsSnail Before After

Gary 64% 80%

Larry 78% 78%

Barry 82% 84%

Terry 72% 70%

SUPER SNAILS Based on the data, do the Super Snail Snacks work?

What should Gary and Sponge Bob do next?

BUBBLE TIME Patrick loves bubble gum. He wants to be able to blow the

biggest bubbles. He is going to enter the Bikini Bottom

Big Bubble Contest. He will practice with 5 different brands

of bubble gum. We are going to perform an

experiment to help him decide which type of bubble gum would be the best.

SCIENTIFIC METHOD

Purpose/ProblemResearchHypothesisExperiment

RESULTSBrand of Bubble Gum

Number of

bubbles blown

Types of bubbles blown

SCIENTIFIC METHOD

AnalysisConclusion