One key piece that was noticed on several of the science tests was that it seems like students forget the plants and trees are living organisms. I saw a quick and easy experiment that I thought would help them remember this. I found it here and it was super easy to recreate!
We placed a leaf in a clear bowl with luke-warm water. We let it stay overnight and then checked on it the next day. There were tiny air bubbles all over the leaf.
The questions we then discussed and wrote about:
1. Do leaves breath?
2. If so, do leaves breath the same way humans do?
3. What makes their breathing different?
4. So are leaves alive?
We placed a leaf in a clear bowl with luke-warm water. We let it stay overnight and then checked on it the next day. There were tiny air bubbles all over the leaf.
The questions we then discussed and wrote about:
1. Do leaves breath?
2. If so, do leaves breath the same way humans do?
3. What makes their breathing different?
4. So are leaves alive?
It's really too hard to see in the pictures, but there were tiny air bubbles all over the bowl as well as on some of the leaves. It was a quick and easy way to make something kinda hard to remember a little more concrete.