This lab sheet guides your student through a controlled comparison of pill bug location choices when given access to both a humid side and a dry side of a single container. Your homeschooler formulates a hypothesis, records bug counts every five minutes across three separate trials, calculates averages, and writes a conclusion about whether the results matched their prediction. The sheet suits grades 3-5 and introduces data collection, fair testing, and animal behavior as a science concept in one tidy session.

The pill bugs in humid versus dry environments experiment works well as a standalone unit study activity or as an entry point into a broader invertebrate or ecology unit. Because the procedure repeats across three trials and asks students to average their results, it also builds early data literacy without requiring any prior lab experience. A completed sheet demonstrates that your student can design a fair test, record quantitative observations, and connect evidence to a scientific claim.