GK-12 Project Highlight: Putnam Elementary School Life Zones Garden

Putnam Elementary School in Fort Collins is developing an outdoor laboratory of native plants. This Colorado life zone garden will provide a schoolyard research plot where students can study plant germination, growth, and physiology. The garden also provides an excellent outdoor classroom for fourth graders as they learn about the life zones of Colorado.

This project material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DGE0086443. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Principal Invesitigator for the Colorado Front Range GK12 is John Moore and Co-PI's are Dave Swift, Bill Hoyt, Carol Seemueller, and Ray Tschillard. For more information contact Kim Melville-Smith.

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