Observing Like a Scientist

 For our inquiry 'Plant Power' we have been investigating all about plants and trying to answer some of our questions.

How do plants eat?

How do they drink?

What are the different parts of the plant?

How do they use their leaves?

What are roots for?

We've learned about the process of photosynthesis and how leaves are like a kitchen: they mix the ingredients that a plant needs to make sap, their food. We also drew and labeled diagrams of leaves and the stalk of celery that showed us how plants drink and absorb water.

We have been looking closely at leaves with magnifying lenses. We discovered that leaves have veins like people do and the leaves look a lot like skin when you see it up close.

Here are a couple of interesting videos you can watch at home and talk to us about.