Science Sunday/How a Flower Gets Water

I asked Selena what a flower needs to grow. She had some great answers:

1. Seeds

2. Dirt

3. Water

4. Sun

I then asked her how a flower gets the water? She said, “I don’t know.”

Supplies:

I took some dirt, flower seeds, water, and plastic wrap so that Selena could plant the seeds.

To show her how water travels up the stem of the flower we used a stalk of celery and colored water. I explained that celery is a plant, which Selena exclaimed celery is like a flower, the connection was made!

A little secret here: The instructions said to cut the end of the celery, I did that and nothing happened, so I broke off the end of the celery and pealed back some of the outer part.

The water moved up the stalk of celery where I had pealed it back. This reminds me of using the carnation in colored water, but it works faster then having to wait over night.

Then we planted some flower seeds.

This is sitting in our window, so now we will see what happens I figure one of three things, Selena will get curious and get into it and dump it out, since the seeds were so old they won’t germinate, or we will get flowers.

To see more science experiments visit Ticia at Adventures in Mommydum. You might also enjoy Friday Nature Table for other great Nature ideas.