Germination Activity

Supplies:
three ziploc bags
Three paper towels
three or more turnip seeds (or beans seeds)
tape
a ruler (that read centimeters)

Wet three paper towels with water and place one inside each of the plastic bags. Place a seed in each plastic bag. If you have more than three seeds, you can put more than one seed in each bag. Zip each bag closed once you have put the seed or seeds in it. Tape the first bag to a window that receives sunlight. Make sure you seed faces the window. Place the second  bag in your refrigerator. Place the third bag in a dark closet that no one usually opens never gets light. Guess which will germinate first. Record for 12 days what happens. Each day, once sprouted,  measure how much the seed has grown for those 12 days.

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