Learn Plant Science Through Colored Leaves

You’ve watered plants before, right? You know how it works: You plant something, give it some water, give it some light, give it some time and voila! Beans! Or broccoli! Or flowers! But . . . how does it work? How does the water go from the dirt into the plant and on up into the flower? This experiment will teach you all about plant science in a fun and simple way.

Reward: Shake Up Silver!

Learn Plant Science Through Colored Leaves

  • Three white flowers. You can use anything you have on hand. Go pick some lawn daisies or roses if you have them. If you don’t have flowers, celery works great as well.
  • Four glasses of water
  • Food painting: blue, yellow, green, red
  • Sharp knife
  1. Mix each color into each of your glasses, until you have four glasses of different colored water. The stronger you make the colors, the better.

 

  1. Add two flowers to two colors. You should have two colors and one flower remaining at this point.

 

  1. Take your last flower and slit the stem so that you’ll be able to put one part of the stem. Now take the two remaining colored glasses and part the stem, placing each half of the stem into different colored glasses. In other words, your flower should now be drinking from two glasses at the same time. Got it? Good.

 

  1. Place the water glasses away from the sunlight and watch what happens. You’ll start to notice some fascinating results within an hour or so, as the colored water creeps up the stem and begins to color the leaves. But wait a few days and keep observing the petals for fuller color displays.



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Fuente: Red Tricycle