Astro Crops
Your Mission: Follow the development of three plants for 12 weeks to explore germination and plant growth.
grown in such a system.
- Observe and describe how seeds grow into mature plants
- Create scientific diagrams and use labels
- Execute systematic observations and measurements
- Interpret results and draw conclusions from the results
- Be able to perform comparative and fair tests
- Printed student data logbook for each group
- Ruler
- 3 pots
- Soil or other growth medium
- Plant nutrients
- Basil, radish and tomato seeds
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