A Reading Plants poster is for sale from the Huntington's Botanical Division. This lesson encourages students to make a thorough study of habitat types.
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In this activity demonstrates that plants need certain conditions to grow. Students experiment with plants in shoeboxes, showing how plants grow towards light. This lesson starts with leaf observations, and can be extended to leaf collections. This is a misnamed activity in which student plant peas. One plant is grown in the light, one in the dark.