Rainbow Celery

Whaea Clare has been working with Room 22 this term, to help them with their Science Enquiry. Each student has a gardening question that they need to answer, and one of them was this: If you put dye into the water of a cut plant, will the plant change colour?

Today we tried it with celery and as time went by we saw the dye travel up the celery stalk. After about an hour the leaves had changed colour. Not only was this pretty entertaining, but it also showed us how plants uptake and distribute water. And how quickly they drink! Next week we want to try the same experiment using cauliflower.