Week 3: Practice
This week you will build your terrarium. In Week 7, your students will use it to construct their own terrarium habitats. Several web sites are listed below to give you ideas.

Assignments

  • Build a terrarium.
  • Describe your terrarium to your team in Course Space in the Classroom. Read about their terrariums and ask them questions or make suggestions or comments.
  • Post resources to Resource Space in the Classroom

Readings

Refer to pages 1-21 of Terrarium Habitats. Build a sample terrarium to model for your students at the beginning of Week 4.


Web Sites

  • Soda Bottle Terrariums Step-by-step instructions for preparing the bottle, choosing plants and maintaining your mini garden.
  • House Plants: Terrariums Includes suggestions for types of containers and planting instructions.
  • The Magic Terrarium Overview of the principles behind any terrarium, a description of plants that do well, and instructions for care. Includes a link to a Millenium Terrarium.
  • The Classroom Jungle Directions for how to make a rainforest terrarium using a shower curtain in the corner of your classroom.

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