1.16 Garden in a Bottle
This is Lesson 1.16, “Garden in a Bottle,” from the Grow Your PALS Program Guide (The National FFA Mentoring Program), within the Food and Nutrition unit. In this one-on-one mentoring activity, the student constructs a mini-greenhouse from a two-liter bottle layered with gravel, charcoal, and soil, then plants seeds and learns the concepts of transpiration and condensation as the plants water themselves.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Construct a bottle greenhouse.
- Define condensation.
- Define transpiration.
- Time required
- 20 minutes
- Materials
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- One two-liter empty pop bottle – clear plastic
- Knife for cutting bottle in half
- Potting soil – enough for 3 inches of soil in pop bottle
- Small gravel – enough for 1-inch layer in pop bottle
- Crushed charcoal – enough for ½-inch layer of charcoal in bottle
- Seeds – Suggested seeds: marigold or tomato
- Spray bottle to mist newly planted seeds
- Small felt tip marker
- PALS1.16.ONE.AS.A
- Unit
- Food and Nutrition
- Lesson Type
- One-on-One
- Precepts
- J – Mental Growth; J1. Think critically; J3. Practice sound decision-making
- Key Terms
- Condensation; Transpiration
- Resources
- None Available
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- CS.02.04.01.c.Demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills while completing a task.
- NM-MEA.PK-2.1Understand Measurable Attributes of Objects and the Units, Systems and Processes of Measurement.
- NM-MEA.PK-2.2Apply Appropriate Techniques, Tools and Formulas to Determine Measurements
- NS.K-4.3Life Science