Association for Biology Laboratory Education

Wavelengths, particles, and plants: Exploring the visible light spectrum and the impacts on plant growth
    



Advances in Biology Laboratory Education, 2023, Volume 43

Br&y Garrett Kluthe & Christina Mortellaro

https://doi.org/10.37590/able.v43.art44

Abstract

The COVID-19 Pandemic created a unique challenge to laboratory teaching. The students’ need to have hands on activities that taught them important fundamentals had to be modified for the at-home laboratory classroom. This lab was developed to provide a hands-on experience that incorporated foundational physics knowledge to a multi-week long plant growth experiment. The lab was divided into two parts; the hands-on lab exploration part, equivalent to one lab period and the longer-term experimental research component that included weekly data collection. Students wrote a final lab report over their second plant growth experiment and presented them. This lab is adaptable to the classroom or home.

Keywords:  plant growth, Inquiry-based learning, biology, visible light spectrum

University of Victoria (2022)