Plant Journal

Today we did a project learning about the role bees play in pollination. We learned that flowers can't reproduce on their own and need bees and other insects to spread pollen from one flower to another. We made paper flowers with a sticky stigma (inside out label) and filled the flowers with different color pollen (coffee and cornmeal). We then made bees (pipe cleaners) and went back and forth bet...
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Today we started our seed growing project. We mixed up our peat with water to create our soil. We then put the soil in our seed watching container. We planted our seeds and covered with some more peat. Now we just need to wait for our seeds to grow. Click read more to see the pics.
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In this project we were cutting out three different seed types and seeing how they flew. We were trying to see who's seed would land farther from the zone of darkness..... The zone of darkness is the area under the tree where the tree's shadow is and the seeds wouldn't get any light.
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