Kindergarten and the Flower Experiment!

Kindergarten has looked at all the parts of the tree and know how each part helps the tree to survive.  We were curious to know if the water really does go from the roots of the plant all the way up to the top!

We decided to put food coloring in a jar of water with a daisy in it and see what the flower looked like the next science class.

We looked closely at the flower before we drew it.

One class voted for red water.

Everyone drew the flower in the vase as it looked -
the water was very dark.

The bottom of the stem started to change color right away.

One class decided to split the stem and put one half in plain
water and the other half in blue water.

We made predictions about what we thought the flower would look like the next science class: the petals will be blue (or red or rainbow depending on the food coloring used), the stem will be the color of the water, the flower will grow, the water is going to disappear.

One week later...the flower petals turned blue!

The flower in the water with the red food
coloring didn't turn very red.  It was pink.

The underside of the petals have red lines on them.

The flower is so droopy!

This flower was a surprise!  The class put in red, blue, green
and yellow food coloring into the water.  The petals show all the
colors but in different locations on the petals!

Another droopy flower, but the side of the flower with the stem
 in plain water remained white, while the side of the flower with the
 stem in the blue water turned blue!