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[Dino and Coop singing]

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There are tons of things that are fun to draw...

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A picture of your dog...

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A picture of your little sister... [Kid drawing]

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A picture of your little sister that actually looks like your little sister.... [Boy laughing]

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Or even a picture of your little sister and your dog fighting off an army of monsters. [Picture comes to life and boy looks shocked]

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Okay, now that's just plain awesome.

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Know what else is fun to draw?

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Conclusions!

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No, we won't actually be drawing anything...but stick with us here.

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We mean the other type of drawing, as in, to formulate. [Scientists looking happy]

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And it's something that scientists do all the time.

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Once they've finished an experiment, scientists must look at all of their data, aka all those

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fun facts and statistics they collected, and draw conclusions about what it all means.

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Say we conducted an experiment where we grew pea plants in pots containing different sorts [Plants growing]

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of soil: sandy soil, potting soil, and clay soil.

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If, after watching over them carefully and singing them lullabies, the plant in the potting [Scientist singing]

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soil grew the tallest, we could conclude that the potting soil provides the best nutrients

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for the plant. [Scientist looking happy]

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Then we can even draw a diagram of our data and conclusions afterwards. [Scientist drawing a graph]

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It's a great way to display our results, and let's be real, it's kind of fun.

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But uh…leave the army of monsters off of this drawing… [Monster rubs out some of the graph]

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Now, what if we grew our pea plants using different amounts of water? [Guy pouring a watering can on the plants]

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If we drew up a graph of the data and it showed us a bell curve, then we could conclude that

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pea plants have an optimal amount of water that they need to grow. [Picture of a bell curve]

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Too little water or too much water and they won't grow well. [The plant in the middle grows quickly]

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Alrighty.

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So far, we've covered the type of soil and the amount of water – but what if we experimented [Teacher pointing at a blackboard]

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with the amount of light?

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Light, after all, is the most important element of photosynthesis, but can a pea plant, much [Plant sat on a deckchair]

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like a lobstery tourist on the beach, get too much sun? [The plant's sunglasses fall off and it looks dead]

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Well, if we conducted a similar experiment to our water study, but this time, we varied

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the amount of light exposure, and the graph ended up also looking like a bell curve, then

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we would similarly conclude that pea plants have an optimal amount of light as well.

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We can also conclude that our bell drawing skills are off the charts, just look at that thing! [Shiny stars come off the bell curve]

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What we've done here are several examples of drawing conclusions.

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By conducting an experiment and analyzing the data we gathered, we're able to draw conclusions

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about what that data means.

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Because really, data is just a bunch of numbers and graphs.

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It's up to us to turn the data into something meaningful that we can understand and teach [Teacher looking confused]

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to others.

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Now we hope you like peas, because we sure have a lot of them!

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We've made boiled peas, mashed pea, pea soup, pea stew, pea cake, pea pie and even a pea [Chef next to all the pea dishes]

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milk shake.

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Sounds delicious, right?

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Anyone?

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Any takers?

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Alright…guess we'll just drink this pea shake all by ourselves… [The chef starts drinking the pea shake]

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