{"id":1824,"date":"2016-05-03T20:24:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T03:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2016-05-03T20:30:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T03:30:11","slug":"plant-experiment-1-the-job-of-the-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/2016\/05\/03\/plant-experiment-1-the-job-of-the-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant Experiment #1 &#8211; The Job of the Roots"},"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. \u00a0In this experiment we wanted to see what would happen to a plant if it was separated from its root system. \u00a0We took two identical plants. \u00a0We put one into a new pot; the other we put into a second pot but we cut the root ball off of it first. \u00a0Both of these plants have been placed side-by-side on the window ledge so that they both received equal sunlight. \u00a0They also received equal amounts of water. \u00a0Three weeks later you can see what has happened &#8230; Students learned that the role of the roots is to suck water up from the ground, which is then sent to other parts of the plant. \u00a0Its second job is to hold the plant securely in place so that it doesn&#8217;t get blown away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_4820.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1828\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_4820-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4820\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_4820-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_4820.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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. \u00a0In this experiment we wanted to see what would happen to a plant if it was separated from its root system. \u00a0We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/2016\/05\/03\/plant-experiment-1-the-job-of-the-roots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant Experiment #1 &#8211; The Job of the Roots<\/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\/1824"}],"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=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}