{"id":1169,"date":"2013-04-23T13:37:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T13:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2013-06-04T13:04:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T13:04:32","slug":"how-plants-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"Science Experiment – How Plants Drink"},"content":{"rendered":"
In Senior Infants this week we did an experiment to find out how plants drink. We already know that the roots of a plant take in the water they need to grow, but how does the water get to other parts of the plant?<\/h5>\n
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What did we do?<\/strong><\/h5>\n
We got two plastic glasses and half filled each with water.<\/h5>\n
We added food colouring to the water.<\/h5>\n
Teacher cut the stem off each plant about 1cm from the end.
\nWe placed a celery stick into each glass of water.
\nWe marked the level of water in each glass with a marker.
\nWe left the glasses for a day in our classroom\u00a0 and checked them sometimes to see what was happening in them.<\/h5>\n
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What happened?<\/strong><\/h5>\n
We saw thin lines of coloured water running the length of the celery stalk. We also saw coloured water in the leaves of the celery.<\/h5>\n
The level of water in both glasses also dropped.
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Why?<\/strong><\/h5>\n
The coloured water from the glasses has moved up through the thin tubes<\/strong> in the celery. The water is then transported around the plant to the leaves of the celery.<\/h5>\n\n\t\t