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Year 627 · How Plants Are Built and Work
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Year 6 · third unit

How Plants Are Built and Work

A plant has no mouth and does not eat. Yet it grows. It drinks with its roots and makes with its leaves.

A child cutting the stem of a lily dyed red

I stood a white lily in red water

A board to run

Run twelve hours. Watch the cut end of the stem too.

A white lily stood in red water, its petals dyed red

I put a plastic bag over a leaf

A board to adjust

What happens inside the bag? Change the sunlight and the temperature.

Drops formed inside a plastic bag over a leaf

I covered one side of a leaf with foil

A board to adjust

A day later, where will iodine solution turn it blue? Change the conditions too.

A leaf turned blue on one half, and iodine solution