Rice Plot Watch and Compare
by Eric Gonzalez-Payne

Two plots, one variable different, four weeks of observation.
The sheet offers three variable options, water, sun and spacing, and you pick one. Only one. Changing two variables produces a result nobody can interpret, and the sheet says so in a line addressed to the teacher.
Grade two can hold a fair test if the difference is single and visible.
The page has the setup, a weekly comparison table for both plots, and a conclusion frame. The conclusion frame asks what they would try next, which is the most valuable box on the page and the one most likely to be left blank if you do not sit with it.
Eric Gonzalez-Payne
Founder and curriculum author
Ed.M. in Educational Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Published by Empathy Global LLC
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