Over the course of this school year we have been discussing WANTS and NEEDS in relation to ourselves. We discussed that while you may WANT something that there are actually a few basic NEEDS that are necessary for survival. For human beings these are: air, water, food, shelter (including clothing), and we added in ‘love’.
Students have also been learning about what a plant NEEDS to survive. In this experiment we took two identical plants and gave them the same soil, air, and sunlight. We denied one of these plants water. You can see what happened …
Students learned, that like human beings, plants will not survive without water.