Operation Plant Pot

We have finished.
Please see our photographs of each plant at the beginning, middle and end of our experiment. Can you notice a difference?
Here are some sentence about what children in 3L have noticed.

Control is very healthy and the leaves are purple and red. It thallest plant in our experiment" By Adhvay

"The no air plant is still surviving. It is a littl bit healthy. It likes the water too. When we take it out it looksnew. It i 35cm and it was 29cm. I has a little bitnyellow leaves. Its a bit droopy." By Goggy

"The no water plant is dying because we did not water it. The leaves are crunchy and delicate. The leaves are dropping and the leaves have fallen off." By Bella

"The no leaves plant still has no leaves." By Tang

"No Light. The leaves on no light had turned yellow. The no light plant is smaller than the control. The no light plant has one green leaf. Some of te leaves are bumpy and some are not." By Patrick

"The no soil plant has wilted." By Lucas "It has died" By 3L

What has happened to our plants?

Here are our plants before and after. The hurricanes guided reading group have written what the class noticed.

No Air plant
The plant with no air drooping a lot.
The plant with no air has yellow and green leaves and a little bit of water.

No Soil Plant
The no soil plant is looking very like its going to die soon.
When we touch the leaf it falls down very easily.
The leaf is very black.
We think it will die on about 10th,11th,12 or 13th.

No light Plant
We have looked at the no light plant.
We have noticed that the red part of the leaves are turning yellow.
It was a amazing sight. So if the no light plant doesn't have light, the no light plant will have green and yellow leaves.

No leaves Plant
the no leaves plant is still looking healthy
but it has no leaves.

Control plant
Control plant is very healthy enough.
And nothing is going bad on control plant.
Do you think that the control plant is healthy enough.

No Water Plant
The No Water plant looks like it is going to die.
I hope the plant will grow well until November.
Its very droopy and the soil is very dried.
When you touch it it will stick on your hands.

Operation Pot Plants

What happens if you take away what a plant needs to survive?

We are doing and experiment with 6 plants. We are taking away one thing a plant needs to stay alive and then we are going to watch a see what happens. Each group is taking away one thing. Our groups are pictured below and have typed a piece of writing to go with their picture.

<=The picture here is the control plant. We haven't taken away anything from this plant.

Red Table

We put the plant in the plastic bag to let no air to the plant. We put a transparent plastic bag so we can also give it the sunlight. We water it by a tube.

Blue Table

This plant is our experiment for taking soil from it. We went to the year 3 garden and took the soil out. Then we took the plant back and watered it.

Yellow Table
We are experimenting about what will happen if we cut the leaves off. The first day we watered the plant. The second day it stilled did not grow leaves but the roots are growing amazingly out of the bottom of the plant pot.

Pink Table

We are experimenting on a plant with no light.

We put our plant in a box.

We are using a special tube which we are connecting to our plant.

We have made air holes so air can go through. We put cloth on the hole so light can't get through.

We won't know what's happening in the box because we can't open it. Maybe we will have to think of a way we can check it without letting light go into it.
Green Table
Our group has not watered their plant for a week.I t is not dying

at all. We think it will survive. The soil is very dry and the plant is still normal but one of the leaf are turning pink .

Some of the leaves are healthy and some of them are riped.