Growing Sustenance- Hypothesizing the Best Growth Metric and Planting
by Amanda Orta
This is the planning and set-up stage for an experiment to see which type of gardening is the most sustainable and produces the best results. You will need to either choose or have students help choose what criteria would qualify as the best- size of plants, growth rate, number of seeds that survive for a set time frame.
Lesson Grade Level
7th GradeLesson Plan Link/URL
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DTNh6W9gPeQu7B2U3XBrBLUOO6m7Wj_x/edit?u…Subject Area
Science Life Science L2: Organisms & Energy Engineering S2: Apply the Engineering Design Process S3: Apply Mathematics to Engineering Mathematics Measurement and Data (MD) Geometry (G) English Language Arts (ELA) Writing
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