STC™ Program - Science and Technology Concepts STC BOOKS™ are colorful 64-page readers with research-based science content, giving teachers an ideal way to integrate science instruction during guided, independent, or take-home reading. Teachers use STC™ science curriculum materials to enhance elementary classrooms, increase student test scores, and meet national and state educational standards.

Grades 5-6. Experiments with Plants introduces students to plants-what they are, how they reproduce and grow, how they add to scientific knowledge, and how they have influenced history. In one story, students read about growing plants without soil-hydroponically. A section of the book tells about all the animals-not just bees-that pollinate plants, and why some plant and animal species team up better than others to facilitate pollination. Other stories relate the contributions of pioneering plant geneticist Gregor Mendel, horticulturist and inventor George Washington Carver, and horticulturist Luther Burbank, as well as those of Thomas Jefferson.