Eve Pranis and Joy Cohen. The Growlab activities, which are presented in 4 chapters, help students explore plants' basic needs and structures, learn about plant life cycles and reproduction, find out how plants adapt to different environmental conditions, and learn how people both use and affect plants around the world. Among the activities, for example, students observe similarities and differences among plant leaves and consider why leaves are important for most plants, conduct classroom studies about acid rain, and try to simulate an indoor tropical rainforest. Appendixes offer a wide range of information, including reproducible student activity sheets, an annotated list of resource books, and suppliers of seeds. Topic Index listings linked to this entry Use these listings to find related entries.
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