Floating garden challenge

Practical Action’s floating garden challenge and its related resources tasks learners to design and build a model structure that will enable farmers to produce crops in areas that are liable to flooding. The activity will develop your learners scientific skills, including; planning the most appropriate ways to answer scientific questions, drawing conculsions and using key language and ideas to explain, evaluate and communicate their methods and findings. 

This activity provides good cross-curricular links with maths and design technology and could be used on STEM or science days or be as part of a science club for key stage 2 and 3, and equivalent, learners.