Students experiment with plants

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By Don Pace

Young scientists at Sierra Vista Elementary worked on experiments to determine what methods were best for growing plants during a six-week investigation.

Belinda Laumbach’s class is an unusual combination of kindergarten and first-grade students who worked together on the project.

“One of the benchmarks for the New Mexico standards is that they learn the scientific process, and I figured at this grade level if I didn’t actually have them do it, they wouldn’t learn how to develop the steps leading to scientific discovery,” Laumbach said.


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