Research Questions:

1. Life Science Education: how to help children to conceptualize the ecosystems balance, plant metabolism, material regenerations, etc.

2. Symbolic manipulations in the children: how children understand the concept of moisture, pressure, percent of chemicals into the air, etc. And how they correlate the changes between these elements.

3. Path between virtual world and real life: how children relate an action in the computer domain to an action on the real domain of the biosphere.

4. The visual display of quantitative information in children's view: how it is possible to visually explain the changes in the Biosphera.

5. The different time scale of the interaction with the computer and with real plants: plants into Biosphera grow in weeks/months, plants into the computer grow in hours.

6. Children's early ideas of Life Science concepts as plant growth and how a toy can change them.