Harvesting Plants in Space

PBS Learning Media
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PBS Learning Media
Resource Type
Classroom Material
Keywords
harvesting plants space horticulture botany astronauts ISS skewing cultivating cells gravity gravitational force roots phototropic weeds farming alternative climate colonize Mars Martian growing geotropic aquaponic hydroponic crackwort arabidopsis parabolic flight zero gravity angled growth genes skewing
Subjects
Life Sciences Science STEAM
Grade Levels
Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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Harvesting Plants in Space

Find out how researchers and astronauts teamed up to study the growth of an ordinary plant in space—and why that impacts farming back on Earth—in this video from SciTech Now partner Science Friday. Students will explore two contrasting ideas about how plants and their roots grow in the absence of gravity, discover new factors that influence plant growth and design their own space farming experiment.
Publisher
PBS Learning Media

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