GBE® Starter Kit: New Teachers

This is your first, grant-sponsored, free unit with consumables.

The Growing Beyond Earth® Growth Chamber Kit allows your students to learn by participating in real science and growing plants like an astronaut! Growing Beyond Earth® is a program created by Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in partnership with NASA. Teachers and their students collect data that helps NASA choose what to grow next on the International Space Station and ultimately, the Moon and Mars!

Your kit includes (quantity):

Chamber hardware

• LED panel with microcontroller, fan, and SD card (1)
• acrylic side panels (2)
• acrylic front and back panels (2)
• bottom panel (1)
• corner connectors (4)
• power supply (1)
• temperature and humidity sensor with suction cup (1)
• screws (12)

Science Resupply Kit, SRK (consumables for two trials; replenished free each year)

• Dicalite Aero-Soil Perlite and Horticultural Vermiculite mix (1:1 by volume; 2.6 liters) (2)
• Florikan Nutricote™ fertilizer, 18-6-8 T180 (40.0 grams) (1)
• hygrometer*-thermometer*, battery-powered (1)
• pots, 4” square (6)
• water tray (1)
• wicking mat (1)
• plant tags (6)
• photoimage card (1)
• Growing Beyond Earth® sticker (4)
• Growing Beyond Earth® Novel Crops Research Protocol QR code (1)
• selected seeds, Novel Crops (3 packs)

Size of assembled Growth Chamber: 16.5″L x 13″W x 18″H