{"id":1847,"date":"2016-05-03T20:55:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T03:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2016-05-03T20:55:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T03:55:23","slug":"plant-experiment-5-do-all-plants-need-soil-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/2016\/05\/03\/plant-experiment-5-do-all-plants-need-soil-to-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant Experiment #5 &#8211; Do All Plants Need Soil to Grow?"},"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 wondered if all plants need soil in which to grow. \u00a0We took a sea sponge and put it into a plastic container. \u00a0We soaked it with water, and ensured that there was always water in the bowl to keep it wet. \u00a0Grass seeds were sprinkled over the sponge. \u00a0You can see the result &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_4822.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1849\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_4822-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4822\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_4822-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_4822.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So while we usually think of plants needing soil &#8211; and a great many of them do need soil &#8211; clearly not ALL plants do. We also tried this experiment with grass seeds on a pine cone. \u00a0While some grass grew in the bottom of that container (in the water) none grew on the actual pine cone. \u00a0Perhaps it wasn&#8217;t kept wet enough &#8230;<\/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-5-do-all-plants-need-soil-to-grow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant Experiment #5 &#8211; Do All Plants Need Soil to Grow?<\/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\/1847"}],"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=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}