Thursday, January 29, 2009

More science experiments: Phototropism (whew!)

For this science experiment I needed clay or play-doh and roll the play-doh into a little snake like the picture below. Then I had to squish one side of the snake so the other side bent over. This demonstrates photo tropism( the picture to the left shows the process). Some plants like sunflowers bend towards the sun to get light.



Wednesday, January 21, 2009

science project: carrots

I did a science project for taproots, it told me in my science book to use carrots( since carrots are taproots). It said to cut off the tips off the carrots, then put one of them in the fridge, and the other in a cup of water with blue food coloring on a sunny windowsill or in my light hut. Then it said to check them in 24 hours but we went on a trip, so we checked when we came back. The carrot in the fridge was shriveled up and the one in the cup was shriveled on the tip and still orange, but the bottom of it in the water was blue and still fresh. We then cut the blue tip open and saw this
The blue food coloring was in the veins because it sucked in the water all the way to the tip. I learned that carrots need to have moisture around them or be in the ground to survive

Thursday, January 8, 2009

vacation

(Sorry I havent blogged in a while)
Our whole family went over to my granma's house (Nana porcupine) and my aunt was there too(The Lutheran hen). I got a box that opens with a key from Nana, and some axe products from Aunt Charity, I also got a vest from my great grandma. We also got to stay over at my mom's friend's house. I got to play with her son, He is a lot bigger now!



Heres me opening my gifts.





And in this picture were at dinosaur park in Rapid city it was cold. The vacation was fun!