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Which End is Up?
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Its outside skin looks dead and its inside skin looks alive. It looks like an onion. I wonder if you can plant it. How come it has so many layers? These candid observations and "wonderings"...
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Exploring What Scientists Do
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"On the first day of class, I ask my second and third graders to draw a picture of a scientist," says Louisville, KY, teacher Andrea Miller. "Most of their images are of males with...
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Herbal Sleuths
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"Before planting an outdoor herb garden, I had my second, third, and fourth graders choose projects on different uses of herbs," says Perryville, MO, teacher Sharon Hayden. She first...
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Experimental Herbal Remedies
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"During a unit on herbs last fall, my high school students became interested in collecting plants around the school, then making herbarium samples (see below) and using books and online...
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Inspiring Herbal Inquiries
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What better motivator for student investigations than plants that feel cool, smell great, and can turn mere tomatoes into pizza sauce?
Consider ways in which you can use herbs...
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Sorting Out Soil
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"When I asked my second through fifth graders what soil was, they concurred that it was just made of dirt," reports St. Louis, MO, teacher Brenda Kukay. "But after dissecting and inspecting...
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Space-Age Wheat
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How does a scientist find a food plant that can thrive on space farms where the artificial sun always shines, carbon dioxide levels are high, and space is tight? Through careful work...
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Fungus Amongus
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"My third graders had been exploring trees as part of a history unit when several began to wonder what happens to the leaves that fall in the autumn," reports Merion, PA, teacher Judith...
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Getting to Know Plants
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What should kids know about plants? The formula for photosynthesis? The difference between a taproot and fibrous root? A botanist and a fourth grade teacher might have very different...
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Getting Started with Soils
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Before beginning a soil unit, ask students to draw or predict what they would find in a sample of soil. Then bring in or have students collect samples of soils from different settings:...
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