Experiments!

We have been busy in science doing experiments.  The grade 2's are taking care of some mealworms and anxiously waiting to see what insect they will become after they go through metamorphosis.

The grade 3's did an experiment to see how the stem of a plant works.  We started with 2 stalks of celery and put them in cups of water.  We put some red food colouring in one cup and some blue food colouring in the other cup and left it over night.  When we came back to school the next day, the leaves of the celery stalk had changed colour and the water level had gone down.  We learned that the stem transports the water to the leaves. (I don't know why the picture is upside down - I have tried everything to flip it around!)

Now, we are trying to germinate seeds without putting them in soil so that we can see how it happens.  We are using black eyed beans and keeping them in a cup with a wet paper towel.  I will post more pictures when the beans sprout.