Content Themes: Science and Technology

By:  NGA staff How can we expect the next generation to care for the environment if they spend a majority of their time hooked up to television and computer scree ...

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Plant physiologist, Ray Wheeler, examines a lettuce crop to better understand how plants can support life in space. (Photo credit: Ray Wheeler) No question about it--plants are vital to our existence here on earth. They provide us with ...

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By:  Eve Pranis While some scientists are busy trying to improve methods for raising food crops on Earth, others have turned their thoughts skyward. Some Milwaukee memb ...

Kidsgardening Activity - Single page - admin - 07/27/2011 - 18:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups

Absorbing Stormwater Runoff...and Student Interest! Also known as a bioretention system, a rain garden is a landscape feature planted in a shallow depression ...

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"My fourth graders had finished an electrical unit, and we moved on to growing plants and studying plant needs," said Painted Post, NY, teacher Carolyn Perry. "Then one curious student suggested that since plants have certain needs and since electricity ...

Kidsgardening Classroom Story - admin - 01/28/2011 - 23:07 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups

"Our seventh-grade life science textbook had a couple of fascinating pages about growing plants hydroponically -- without soil," reports, New Orleans, LA, teacher Melanie Boulet. "My students were curious to discover whether we could get plants to g ...

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Students Fight Pollution Where It Puddles Before Photo: Site of the future LEGO Rain Garden The 10 fifth grade students in the FIRST LEGO League Team at Greenbrier ...

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Seventh Graders Design Soilless Setups Hydroponics investigations allowed my students to gain a concrete understanding of the basic needs of plants," says seventh grade teacher Melanie B ...

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Creating a Classroom River "Exploring life in the river near our school intrigued my third and fourth graders," reports Waits River, VT, teacher Cheryl Ollman. "But, of course, the ...

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The students and teachers at Milton Cooper Elementary in Houston, Texas, have found a unique location to grow plants hydroponically: a 1973 VW Microbus! The van, affectionately named “Vincent Van Grow,” is a school-wi ...

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