Author: Alicia Brand, Don Galbraith Award winner, Laurentian University This activity engages the students in the creation of designing and constructing a garden, planting and growing different types of plants and tracking and collecting measurement data of the plants growth. Students will use measurements to determine how much their plants have grown, and to record […]
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