Erin Kandlbinder
University of Arkansas

Loving this idea! I definitely have been considering the idea of living plants in my (future) classroom but worried that I would forget about them and let them die. Having the students involved in the process would be killing two birds with one stone--lovely plants and plenty of potential science lessons (photosynthesis, reproductive systems of plants, how plants grow in certain conditions/seasons...

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I am currently a pre-service teacher, and right now I am placed in a first-grade classroom for my field experience hours. I will be teaching a science lesson soon, and I know that scientific principles and ideas stuck much better in my mind as a student when I had a concrete example, and I feel that an experiment is one of the best ways to accomplish this. I was curious as to whether there were ...

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