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What Makes Plants Grow: Soil Chemistry Lab
May 4 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
$10
What Makes Plants Grow: Soil Chemistry Lab
- When: Sat., May 4, 2024 • 1–3pm
- Drop off: Discovery Center at Water’s Edge (DCWE), 4505 Pulaski Hwy., Belcamp, MD 21017 (Link to Google Maps.)
- Cost: $10 material fee; pre-registration required; contact us for group reservation discount!
- Registration
- Max Availability: 16
- Ages 5th grade and up.
Description:
What is the difference between dirt and soil? Besides moisture what are the three main things plants need from soil? Why won’t a blueberry bush and a cactus both do well in the same soil? Oligochaeta and Enchytaeidae both live in your garden soil – what are they? What percent of the species of life on earth live in the soil?
This session will address basic facts about the relationship between soil, earth’s life, and specifically plants. Participants will conduct laboratory procedures to test several different samples of soil for conditions that encourage plant growth.
Please note, admission to the Discovery Center is not included in the price of this Science Saturday.
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