Adding mineral salts – do radishes grow better?
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This activity involves children growing radishes from seed. The children have the opportunity to carry out their own investigation by adding different amounts of fertiliser to find out which has optimal results.
The activity supports the teaching of plants with cross-curricular links to mathematics (units of measure and handling data) as well as literacy. The ‘Planning Plant‘ resource can be used to support the planning stage of the investigation and you can reference the resource ‘Growing plants in pots‘ to support with the investigation technique.