Flower Power

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

In the name of Allah the most gracious the most merciful.

As part of our ongoing work on growing plants for self sufficiency, we decided to take an experiment out of the book Mini Scientist - In the Garden by Lisa Burke called Flower power.  We used this experiment to learn how plants take in water through their roots and stems to feed the leaves and flowers.

Saffiyah wrote up her experiment using a pre-made  sheet from www.twinkl.co.uk so that we could refer to it another time when we eventually complete our living things (plants) lapbook, probably after Ramadan inshaallah.

So far we have set up the experiment using white flowers and red, yellow and blue food dye in water, Saffiyah predicts that the yellow colour will be soaked up first.  We have a further experiment to add later on using a split stem technique with one split in red water and one in yellow water, Saffiyah predicts that the colours will mix to form the secondary colour orange, we will update this post later once that experiment has been performed to see if Saffiyah was correct in her prediction.

 

For our first flower power experiment, we took three white flowers and cut the stems at an angle to help them to take up the water, we then filled three glasses with equal amounts of water and places each flower in a separate glass.

Next we placed a few drops of each food colour into each separate glass and noted the time, observations will be made every two hours and updated with photos.

I took a copy of the experiment in the book so that we could refer back to it another time when we want to complete our plants lapbook inshaallah.

The flowers after two hours.













The yellow showed tiny changes to the very tips of the petals from white to yellow.  The blue showed no changes.

The red showed a little more change to the edges of the centre petals from white to red and also the tips of the outer petals.  The changes were too small to pick up with my camera.

The flowers after four hours.

The yellow still showed small amounts of colour to the tips of the petals and no more, the red showed a tiny bit more noticeable change in colour.

The blue still showed no change.

The flowers after six hours.

The red showed a little more change to the edges of the centre petals from white to red and also the tips of the outer petals.  The changes could now be picked up by the camera.

The blue still showed no change.

The flowers after eight hours.

Still no change to the flower in the blue water.

The flower in the yellow water still showed no change since the first observation at two hours, the flower in the red water showed little change since the previous observation at six hours.











The flowers after ten hours.

Saffiyah's recorded observations written every two hours over a period of ten hours.