GrowLab® helps
educators cultivate students’ innate skills for solving
problems in all contexts.
After all, knowing how to find
an answer is as important as having the answer!
What teachers say about GrowLab:
"Students have absolute enthusiasm for their plant explorations—from
planting, to checking growth and measuring—and a zest for science,
questioning, and initiating new projects that I haven't seen
before."
- 6th grade teacher, Boston, MA
"GrowLab's clearly outlined procedures succeed in practice…Activities
in the book can be modified to fit your own theme, grade level,
or learning circumstances, and they don't give answers away
or reveal results before the kids have done their own observing
and concluding…This book is a gem."
- Teacher reviewer of GrowLab curriculum
"The GrowLab curriculum and other resources are innovative,
high quality, and enormously popular with educators in our
area."
- Botanic Garden Education Manager
What it is: GrowLab is
a K-8 plant-based instructional program that invites educators
to use plants as a springboard for investigative, student-centered
learning. In GrowLab classrooms, indoor and outdoor gardens
become living laboratories for active inquiry, where teachers
prompt students to question, experiment, and construct their
own understanding of the world around them.
The centerpiece of the program is the K-8 curriculum guide,
GrowLab: Activities for Growing Minds. The horticultural guide,
GrowLab: A Complete Guide to Gardening in the Classroom provides
further guidance and inspiration for using plants to enrich
classroom learning. Funded by the National Science Foundation,
the GrowLab curriculum reflects the vision articulated and
correlates with objectives included in the National Science
Education Standards. Students become scientifically literate
by actively engaging in meaningful inquires of the natural
world.
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