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Plants don’t grow on wishes — they grow on light, water, soil, warmth, and food, in the right balance. Predict what a plant needs, watch the science decide, and look inside a leaf to see how it all works. Every garden is an experiment.

🌱 Seed Starter Level 1

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Grow & explore

Six hands-on studios — predict what a plant needs to grow, explore a plant cell under the microscope, trace what happens to a food web when one species disappears, design a fair test like a real scientist, predict how a cell reacts when its conditions change, and follow the gases in and out of a leaf by day and by night.

Grow Lab ✨ new Read a plant’s conditions — light, water, soil, warmth, food — and predict which one is holding it back the most. Then reveal the growth model and see why. Predict, observe, explain. Microscope ✨ new Tap the parts of a plant cell to learn what each one does — the wall, the chloroplasts, the big water vacuole — then test yourself by matching each job to its structure. Food Web Lab ✨ new Remove one species from a food web and predict the ripple — which animals boom, which crash, which stay the same — before you reveal the cascade. See how everything in an ecosystem is connected. Experiment Lab ✨ new To find out if one thing matters — light, water, soil, warmth, food — change only that and keep everything else the same. Spot the experiments that aren’t fair, and see why a fair test is the only one you can trust. Cell Lab ✨ new Look inside the leaf: predict how photosynthesis, the stomata, and water transport react when the light, air, or water changes — then reveal the result. Discover why more light doesn’t always mean more food. Photosynthesis ↔ Respiration Lab ✨ new A leaf runs two reactions at once. Predict the gas it gives off — by day and by night — then reveal the balance. Find out why plants breathe out oxygen in the sun but carbon dioxide in the dark, and where a plant’s new mass really comes from.

Practice the concepts

16 kits from seeds and life cycles, through photosynthesis, soil and nutrition, reproduction and genetics, up to ecosystems, adaptation, and real-world reasoning — a short round with a hint whenever you get stuck. Your progress stays on this device.

Kit 1: Seeds of Science: Plant Basics and Life Cycles Plant Basics & Life Cycles · 25 questions Kit 2: Photosynthesis and Plant Energy Photosynthesis & Plant Energy · 25 questions Kit 3: Soil Science and Plant Nutrition Soil, Nutrition & Growing Systems · 25 questions Kit 4: Plant Reproduction and Pollination Reproduction, Seeds & Genetics · 25 questions Kit 5: Plant Genetics and Heredity Reproduction, Seeds & Genetics · 25 questions Kit 6: Ecosystems and Plant Interactions Ecosystems, Adaptation & Biomes · 25 questions Kit 7: Plant Adaptations and Evolution Ecosystems, Adaptation & Biomes · 25 questions Kit 8: Capstone: Sustainable Gardening and Agricultural Science Soil, Nutrition & Growing Systems · 25 questions Kit 9: Plant Reproduction & Seeds Reproduction, Seeds & Genetics · 25 questions Kit 10: Genetics & Plant Breeding Reproduction, Seeds & Genetics · 25 questions Kit 11: Hydroponics & Indoor Growing Soil, Nutrition & Growing Systems · 25 questions Kit 12: Plant Adaptations & Biomes Ecosystems, Adaptation & Biomes · 25 questions Kit 13: Cross-Topic Connections Real-World, Reasoning & Synthesis · 25 questions Kit 14: Real-World Applications Real-World, Reasoning & Synthesis · 25 questions Kit 15: Misconceptions & Reasoning Real-World, Reasoning & Synthesis · 25 questions Kit 16: Advanced Synthesis Real-World, Reasoning & Synthesis · 25 questions
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