Favorite Demonstration: Floating Spinach Disks—An Uplifting Demonstration of Photosynthesis

by: Marty Fox, John J. Gaynor, and Judith Shillcock

This exercise is ideal for studying the overall process of photosynthesis. It employs disks punched out of a spinach leaf with a hole-puncher. The flexible experimental design provides the opportunity for open-ended, student-directed original inquiry.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 12/1/1998Stock # jcst98_028_03_210Volume 028Issue 03

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