1.12 How Do Plants Drink
“How Do Plants Drink?” is a small-group lesson from the National FFA Mentoring Program’s Grow Your PALS Program Guide (Unit: Plants and Gardening). Students build a model “Straw Flower” with a paper-towel core and place it in colored water to observe how water moves up the stem, learning to draw conclusions from the experiment and define capillary action.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Draw conclusions based on data gathered in an experiment.
- Define capillary action.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 30 minutes.
- Materials
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- One flower for interest approach (a long stemmed flower, such as a carnation or rose)
- One Straw Flower stem per student (prepared in advance — see PALS1.12.SG.AS.A)
- One paper flower for Straw Flower (see PALS1.12.SG.AS.B)
- Colored pencils for each student
- One glass beaker or jar for each student
- Blue or green food coloring
- Writing surface
- Markers
- Unit
- Plants and Gardening
- Lesson Type
- Small Group
- Precepts
- A. Action — A2. Focus on results; N. Decision Making — N2. Demonstrate problem-solving skills
- Key Terms
- Capillary action
- Resources
- National FFA Organization. (2003). LifeKnowledge Precepts and Signs of Success
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- CS.01.01.01.a.Work productively with a group or independently.
- NS.K-4.2Physical Science