Learning About Plants

Here's the song the we learned about plant parts.  We sang it to the tune of  "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes".

We learned that celery is really the stem of a plant.  We put the celery in red water to see what would happen...

In one day, it turned red!  We could especially see the red coloring on the tips of the leaves (at the end of the veins).

We put white carnations in colored water.  If our theory of water traveling up the stem is correct, they should turn colors.

 

We were right!  They did change colors.  Some were darker than others, but we could see traces of color on all of them except the one in plain water.

The red coloring worked the best.

We planted bean seeds in a 'greenhouse'.  So far, we have a lot of condensation and one small sprout.  Check back next week to see the results.

We soaked seeds in water overnight and then took them apart.  We took off the seed coat and found the sprout that would become the root.  We could also see the leaves.  They were very tiny and white.

We planted seeds in different conditions.  We are going to record what happens to each seed.

This is our book for the seeds with no light.

This is our book of seeds with no water.

This is our book of seeds with light and water.  Students were concerned that it wouldn't grow because we didn't have any real dirt just paper towels.  They finally sprouted on day 4.

Here we are analyzing and studying different kinds of seeds.  The come in a lot of different sizes and shapes.

Mrs. Brockhaus let us take apart flowers to see the different parts.  We saw the petals and pollen on some of them.

Here's a flower with all of the petals removed.  It looked like a little sponge.

We made an art project to show how seeds grow with light, water, and air.  As you unfold the project, the plants grow, and grow, and grow!

Here's our class garden.  All of our plants are growing except the nasturtium seeds.

The morning glory plants are bending over toward the sun in the window.

Ms. Townsend is helping the bee 'pollinate' our flowers.

We created a flower and labeled the different parts.  Do you see the pollen?