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» Home » Math is for the Plants 1

Math is for the Plants 1

Author: Qiaochu (Joy) Xu

It’s always exciting to check out how much the plants grown over a night/week,

and I believe it would be so interesting to track and graph their growth!

Think about what plants do you want to grow…?

Here are some vegetables that you could easily grow from kitchen scraps:

Avocado, hot pepper, lemon grass, mushroom, onion, basil, cabbage, potato, pumpkin,

carrot greens, celery, cilantro, garlic sprout, ginger… or…you name it?

 

See this link for the tips for growing your plants: 19 foods you can grow from scraps

Don’t worry if you don’t have a backyard or garden to do this activity, you can either growing little seedings or water plant from kitchen scraps (such as green unions, leeks, carrots and more…) on your windowsill.

  I would recommend lettuces andgreen onions, as they are easy     to get and grow very fast, as you can see from the pictures!

You could follow the steps in the picture, and track their growth within a week, to see:

1) Where do you notice when the growth occurring? 

(2) Do they volume out from inner leaves or grow into a pyramid shape?

(3)  How would you track the growth? 

(4) By taking pictures, making a chart with length they grow and the date, or by drawing it out?

You could start your garden journal, and let’s talk about that after a week!!


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