{"id":1842,"date":"2016-05-03T20:46:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T03:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2016-05-03T20:46:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T03:46:26","slug":"plant-experiment-4-can-plants-survive-without-sunlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/2016\/05\/03\/plant-experiment-4-can-plants-survive-without-sunlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant Experiment #4 &#8211; Can Plants Survive Without Sunlight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00a0For human beings these are: air, water, food, shelter (including clothing), and we added in &#8216;love&#8217; (families).<\/p>\n<p>Students have also been learning about what a plant NEEDS to survive. \u00a0In this experiment we took two identical plants and gave them the same soil, air, and water. We denied one of these plants sunlight. \u00a0You can see what happened &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_4827.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1843\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_4827-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4827\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_4827-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_4827.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The plant on the right has a flower in bloom, nice green leaves, and is growing nicely. The one on the left is showing signs of fading. \u00a0It hasn&#8217;t grown in height and it is a much paler green colour. \u00a0Students learned that a plant needs sunlight to grow to its potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00a0For human beings these are: air, water, food, shelter (including clothing), and we added in &#8216;love&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/2016\/05\/03\/plant-experiment-4-can-plants-survive-without-sunlight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant Experiment #4 &#8211; Can Plants Survive Without Sunlight?<\/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\/1842"}],"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=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}