Middle-High School Plant Science & Curriculum Enrichment
An Exciting Education Initiative
BioSTEMTM is an exciting education initiative that inspires students and helps them develop superior STEM skills across multiple grades and courses by studying plant science in the classroom.
BioSTEM blends lab-grade technology in the form of the Conviron GEN1000 plant growth chamber, with a ground-breaking companion website that will guide teachers and students and link them together in collaborative experimentation and research. Together, this provides educators with a powerful new instructional tool in the classroom to deliver course material and build STEM skills related to disciplines and topics such as:
plant science
biology
ecology
genetics
data analysis
environmental science
climate change
soil, water and water conservation
BioSTEM has been developed by Conviron, a world leader in the design, manufacture and installation of plant growth chambers and rooms for plant science and other applications.
Partners in Learning
Being able to have the unit in the classroom enables you to integrate it right into your programming.
Bob Adamson, STEM Director, Pembina Trails School Division
The plant chamber changed the whole energy of the class. Every day we would come in to do the plant study and people would just be so excited and we would just feed off each other's excitement.
Jasmine Cheng, Science Student
One of the most important benefits is for students to see first hand how different nutrients or abiotic factors are affecting plant growth.
What I like about the Conviron plant growth chamber is that it made me feel mature, like I was in a real lab and that I was being taken seriously.
Anita Fan, Science Student
It's a good hands on activity where we can see the whole process of measuring, taking data, making graphs...so it helped out with the whole research process.
