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Container Seeds in Ecocolumns

This year, I had packets of donated seeds that my students used in ecocolumns. Two …

Finishing EcoColumns is a sad, but necessary part of EcoColumns. Students become very attached to …

My students’ favorite lab is building and taking care of Ecocolumns. This lab gives them …

Things will go wrong in ecocolumns, they always do. And that’s part of the magic …

Ecocolumns can teach the kids A LOT of scientific concepts if you are purposeful with …

Sometimes new teachers panic when they see all the shiny probes, grow lights and data …

After two weeks of draining your ecocolumns, its time to build the aquatic chamber. DO …

After weeks of your students being excited about getting a fish, today is the day! …

Adding worms is almost as much fun as getting a fish! (NO FISH for two …

On the second day of building ecocolumns, students add seeds and begin taking data. (This …

Students thoroughly enjoy building ecocolumns. Building usually takes 2 full class periods (50-55 min). The …

Students thoroughly enjoy building ecocolumns. The supplies here are for an ecocolumn with three chambers: …

This video describes how to build the Aquatic Chamber. Remember, DO NOT build this chamber …

At the end of Ecocolumns, my students graph their data and answer questions as a …