Sprouting Seeds - Cress

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Description

Growing Cress seeds under different conditions.


Resources

Plates, kitchen towel, cress seeds, pastry cutters.

Instructions

1. Give each six 4 plates/plastic tray.
2. Make a pile of 10 kitchen towels on each one.
3. Lay a pastry cutter on each pile.
4. Spoon water onto 2 of the plates to soak the towels.
5. Write dry along one side of the other 2. On 1 of these write dark.
6. Sprinkle cress seeds into each cutter. Hold down cutter and spread the seeds to the edges with finger. Carefully remove cutters.
7. In sixes, decided who is going to take home a plate and be responsible for the following
1 dry plate in the dark
1 dry plate in the light
1 watered plate in the dark
1 watered plate in the light.
The watered plates need to have water added around the seeds (not over the seeds) every day.
8. Bring seeds back following week to see what has happened.


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