This lesson can be taught as a lab or unit, depending on how much or how little you expand on it. You will be growing a crystal garden, alum, and chrome alum. You also will be learning some basic things about crystals. Crystals and Crystal Growing. The growing of crystals not only involves the actual growing, but also observing the physical properties of crystal.
Crystals are an amazing thing to see.
Crystals grow naturall over time, or can be grown in a laboratory. Crystals are composed of structural units that are repeated in three dimensions. Isometric includes a cube, octahedron, tetrahedron, and dodecahedron. Hexagonal includes prism and rhombohedron. The other four groups are composed of prisms.