| Grade Level | System Requirement | Product Number |
|---|---|---|
| Grades 3-6 | Apple 128K | A215 |
| Kids use an innovative combination of outer space and agriculture to measure the influence that four variables — light, water, temperature, and plant food — have on the germination, growth, and yield of vegetable plants. Using their knowledge of these variables, kids are challenged to determine the best conditions needed to produce a vegetable crop. An excellent supplement for science classes that grow plants.Features a variety of management options. | ||
Introduction
Lunar Greenhouse is a discovery-learning simulation that capitalizes on the natural curiosity of students and encourages them to use their curiosity while developing appropriate scientific processes and learning scientific content.
Lunar Greenhouse is a part of MECC’ s Science Inquiry Collection. Like all the packages in this collection, Lunar Greenhouse features a strong process orientation while presenting material that is firmly anchored in the elementary and junior high school science curriculum.
In Lunar Greenhouse, students are challenged to raise a variety of vegetable crops to meet specific harvest sizes in a controlled environment on the moon. When setting up the experiment, students adjust variables such as hours of light, environmental temperature, amount of water, and amount of plant food, keeping in mind the final goal (yield or harvest size and days to harvest) they are to meet.
Science concepts addressed by or related to Lunar Greenhouse include:
- • interaction of plant growth variables,
- • controlling plant growth variables, and
- • interpreting results (in chart form).
Science process skills developed by Lunar Greenhouse include:
- observing,
- organizing
- estimating,
- relating,
- designing an experiment,
- and inferring.