It’s Tomatosphere Season!
Teachers in classrooms all over the country are excitedly tweeting images and updates about their classrooms’ Tomatosphere experiments. Each classroom receives two packets of tomato seeds. One set of seeds that flew on the ISSInternational Space Station. The other remained on on Earth. Which is which? In this free program, students make predictions and design controlled experiments to investigate!
To learn the essentials about Tomatosphere including how to request seed packets, visit the program page.
For some fun history about the program, enjoy this article reprinted with permission from The Rotarian magazine.