Grow glow-in-the-dark flowers. An excellent video in the ACS Reactions series shows how to make fluorescent flowers. It gives step-by-step instructions for such an experiment.

Concepts

flowers, light, fluorescence

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Invite a florist or botanist to give a presentation

Classroom Considerations

• If performing the experiment in the video, some materials are necessary; see video for complete list
• Scholars need to be able to work with ratios
  

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Well-paced narration
  
• Demonstration in the video makes the process very clear
  

Cons

• None