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Adapted from SuperScience Red, March, 1995, issue. In this activity,
students test whether or not seeds need to be in soil to sprout. (This
may be a good time to introduce the word GERMINATE, the scientific word
for when a seed starts to grow.) We've kept other variables, like sunlight,
water, and air, constant: The seeds in the egg carton do not get sunlight,
but they do get air and water. Students can try to sprout seeds in a clump
of hair, cut-up plastic, glitter, etc. All of our seeds sprouted in the
materials we tested! Most seeds need only air and water to germinate.
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