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 A Key to Discovery Poster
Use this NASA educational poster to teach about research on the international space station.
 
 Engineering Design Challenge Flier -- Grades K-12
Design, analyze, build and evaluate a plant growth chamber. Then plant basil seeds that have been exposed to the environment of space.
 
 How Plants Grow in Space: The Effects of Gravity and Light -- Grades 3-8
Watch how students performed a controlled experiment in their classroom with sprouting seeds and compared them with those sprouted on the space shuttle.
 
 Lunar Plant Growth Chamber Educator Guide -- Grades 9-12
In this unit, high school students participate in the engineering design process, in which they will build and evaluate a lunar plant growth chamber of their own design.
 
 Packing Up for the Moon Educator Guide -- Grades 5-8
In this unit, middle school students participate in the engineering design process, in which they build and evaluate a lunar plant growth chamber of their own design.
 
 Ripening of Fruits and Vegetables -- Grades 5-8
This lesson plan includes an activity in which students will experiment to compare the rate of ripening of fruits and vegetables when exposed to air.
 
 Why do plants grow upwards? -- Grades 3-5
Plants will grow toward light, but see how gravity also affects their growth.
 
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