Ready for a NEW YEAR of Growth!
Calling all middle school students interested in participating in authentic research for NASA through Fairchild Botanic Tropical Gardens....
Week 2
5th graders, who are studying the metric system and metric conversions helped us collect our measurements for WEEK 2! Thank you 5th...
Week 3
This week was an exciting week. We had 3rd Graders from Mrs. Wilkin's class come visit on Tuesday to find out more about our...
Grow lights vs Natural Sunlight
Though it is not part of the GBE Challenge, we decided to plant the extra seeds the same day as the plants in our growth chamber. The...
Day 4 and Day 5
Day 4- Monday October 9th we walked into our class to find our magical purple glow waiting for us with pots that were full of little...
GBE Trial 1-Day 1 Ed-ventures
Today we started our GBE Trial #1 and followed Fairchild's protocol step by step: PART 1: Mini Botany Lab Set up A. Shelving Unit was...
Almost ready to get started!
Tomorrow we will kick off our 2017-2018 GBE Challenge! Growing Beyond Earth (GBE) is one of the challenges offered by Fairchild Tropical...
We have seeds!
Today I picked up this year's seeds! We are now ready to get planting! This next week we will prep our classroom for Trial 1. It will be...
Day 14, 15, 16- Week 2 Observations
We have had a very exciting first half of the week. We have had 3rd grade visitors from Mrs. Dungberg's science classes. They helped our...
DAY 7
75% of the seeds have germinated. The pots with Lemon Balm are the only ones that have not germinated yet. The petite snap- green Peas...
