Growing Beyond Earth®

Teacher resources

Curricular materials and guides to introduce your students to space plant biology and help you run GBE research in your classroom. Not participating yet? Learn how to join.

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Data Portal

Enter your class’s observations and explore data from every GBE school.

2026–27 protocols

Novel Crops, Extended Novel Crops and Microgreens: this year’s experiments.

Order equipment and materials

The GBE store for PlantLabs, kits and supplies.

Open office hours

Drop-in help from the GBE team, October to April.

Running your experiments

Guides and tutorials

Experiment training videos

Set up your PlantLab and run your experiments.

Data Portal help

Tutorials and a guide to the Data Portal’s variables.

Research data and references

Results and crops

Crops tested through GBE

Plant varieties tested through GBE.

Supplies

Restock your experiments

Order PlantLabs, kits and materials from the GBE store. Need more consumables? You can also buy the same materials that make up our GBE consumable kits:

Show your GBE pride: print the active research site poster for your classroom, or get T-shirts and more.

A GBE PlantLab growing leafy greens under LED light

Share GBE

Videos for your students and community

NASA welcome to GBE

TEDx Coconut Grove: Growing Beyond Earth

Esta página reúne los materiales curriculares y recursos para docentes de Growing Beyond Earth®: el Portal de Datos, los protocolos de los experimentos, videos de capacitación, tutoriales del PlantLab, recursos curriculares, resultados de investigación y materiales para reponer sus experimentos. La mayoría de los recursos están disponibles en inglés.

¿Aún no participa en GBE? Conozca cómo unirse. ¿Preguntas? Escríbanos a GBE@fairchildgarden.org.

More questions? Join us for open office hours

Drop in with your questions about GBE, your PlantLab or your experiments. Office hours are held virtually from October to April. If these times don’t work for you or your students, email us to schedule a one-on-one.

This website is based upon work supported by NASA Science Activation award No. 80NSSC26M0152. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Este sitio web se basa en trabajo respaldado por la NASA mediante la subvención de Science Activation No. 80NSSC26M0152. Todas las opiniones, hallazgos, conclusiones o recomendaciones expresadas en este material pertenecen a los autores y no reflejan necesariamente los puntos de vista de la Administración Nacional de Aeronáutica y del Espacio.

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