{"id":1852,"date":"2016-05-03T21:15:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T04:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2016-05-03T21:15:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T04:15:33","slug":"plant-experiment-6-how-does-a-seed-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/2016\/05\/03\/plant-experiment-6-how-does-a-seed-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant Experiment #6 – How Does a Seed Grow?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 ‘love’ (families).<\/p>\n

Students have also been learning about what a plant NEEDS to survive. \u00a0In this experiment we wondered if all of the seeds that a plant produces will grow successfully into a new plant. \u00a0Ziplock baggies were prepared with dampened paper towels and bean seeds. \u00a0These were placed on the windows to ensure that they received a fair bit of sunlight. Students followed the progress of their individual baggie by charting the changes.<\/p>\n

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Each baggie had four bean seeds in it. \u00a0A fair number of these seeds developed with a natural progression: roots came out of the seed and went down to the bottom of the baggie; the shoot pushed upwards; leaves developed; and then flowers appeared.<\/p>\n

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While some seeds followed this development students noticed that the majority of the seeds did not follow this growth cycle. \u00a0Many turned black with mold; while some just went brown and mushy-looking.<\/p>\n

Students learned that plants produce a huge number of seeds because not all of them will be successful in reaching maturity. \u00a0In order for a plant species to thrive it needs to give itself a good chance by making a lot of seeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 ‘love’ … Continue reading Plant Experiment #6 – How Does a Seed 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\/1852"}],"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=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}