Portage Daily Register: Students who cut small holes into cardboard receptacles in Amanda Seichter’s second-period horticulture class Wednesday shared their understanding of how plants respond to light, finding answers that weren’t gleaned from a textbook.
“I knew they’d grow to the light, but I didn’t know different colors would influence them, like red and blue,” said Pardeeville High School sophomore Kayla Guenther.
“With even one thing wrong,” observed senior Drew Alfaro, “they can’t grow.”
“They need to see something, do something, feel something, in order to understand it better,” explained Seichter, in her first year at Pardeeville and ninth as an agriculture teacher.