Sustainable Terrarium
By lisa schneider - United states

SUSTAINABLE TERRARIUM
Activity Duration: 1-30 days 
​Recommended Age: 10-18

Who would love to build their own mini garden inside?   A terrarium is your solution to growing a garden if you don’t have much space available or your climate doesn’t provide you with an opportunity to grow certain plants or foods.
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​EXPERIENCE
Terrariums are a great way to get into gardening!  They can be made from any clean container that can be sealed and opened easily. Objects such as old aquariums that don’t leak, jars, plastic bottles and containers may be used as a terrarium for this project. Using items around your house is a great way to recycle plastic and glass that you may otherwise throw away.   Watch this video on how easy it is to create your own tiny little world inside of a bottle with supplies that you may have laying around your home.  
THINK
  • A terrarium creates its own mini-climate. A terrarium is a small indoor greenhouse container that has a small opening or sometimes even a lid to completely close the container that allows the sunlight to go through the glass so that it warms the soil, air and plants.
  • It does the same thing as the sunlight when it comes to the atmosphere to warm the Earth’s surface. The glass holds the heat and humidity the same way as Earth’s atmosphere. 
  • See how NASA discusses how the climate is affected by plants climatekids.nasa.gov/mini-garden/ 
CREATE
Now it’s your turn…… Create your own video creating your own terrarium and post it to the SciArt Exchange submission system
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Watch this video of Mrs. Schneider creating her own terrarium.

​Download the activity material and instructions below:
sustainable_terrarium_activity.pdf
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SHOW US YOUR TERRARIUM -  Send your drawing, pictures, videos, poems or sound bites of your terrarium to SciArt Exchange (submit here) and we will share your creativity with other kids around the world.

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