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Test Tube Hydroponics (Grades 3-5)

Investigate the importance of nutrients for plant growth and discover how plants grow without soil by growing and observing plants in a test tube hydroponic system.

Grades
3 – 5
Estimated Time
1 hour of instruction plus 1 week for germination and 1 month of observation
Updated
September 13, 2024
soybean seedlings growing in hydroponic solution in a test tube
Image: NCAL Team

Background

Lesson Activities

Credits

Author

Lynn Wallin | National Center for Agricultural Literacy (NCAL)

Standards

National Content Area Standards

  • Science
    • 4-LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
      • 4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
    • 5-ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
      • 5-ESS3-1: Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth's resources and environment.
    • 5-LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
      • 5-LS1-1: Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.