{"id":1821,"date":"2016-05-03T20:28:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T03:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2016-05-03T20:28:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T03:28:31","slug":"plant-experiment-2-the-job-of-the-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/2016\/05\/03\/plant-experiment-2-the-job-of-the-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant Experiment #2 &#8211; The Job of the Stem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our plant unit we have been doing a series of experiments to demonstrate the &#8216;jobs&#8217; that each part of the plant has in the healthy growth of the whole plant. \u00a0This experiment showed the role of the &#8216;stem&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_4812.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1822\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_4812-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4812\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_4812-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_4812.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We put a stalk of celery and a white flower into a jar with blue food-coloured water. \u00a0The next day we noticed quite the difference! Students learned that the job of the stem is to suck the water up from the roots to share it with the rest of the plant. The addition of the blue food colouring showed that this process took place in our experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our plant unit we have been doing a series of experiments to demonstrate the &#8216;jobs&#8217; that each part of the plant has in the healthy growth of the whole plant. \u00a0This experiment showed the role of the &#8216;stem&#8217;. We put a stalk of celery and a white flower into a jar with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/2016\/05\/03\/plant-experiment-2-the-job-of-the-stem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant Experiment #2 &#8211; The Job of the Stem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1835,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}