GBE® Starter Kit: New Teachers

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) (remove the plastic protective layer)
• acrylic front and back panels (2)
• bottom panel (1)
• corner connectors (4)
• power supply (1)
• screws (12)

Science Supply Kit, SSK (intended for three years of consumables)

• Perlite and Horticultural Vermiculite (one 8 qt bag of each)
• Florikan Nutricote™ fertilizer, 18-6-8 T180 40g (3)
• pots, 4” square (6)
• water tray (1)
• wicking mat (1)
• plant tags (36)
• photoimage card (1)
• Growing Beyond Earth® sticker (4)
• Growing Beyond Earth® Research Protocol QR code (1)
• Active Research Site poster
• Selected seeds (3 packs)
  

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