What were your observations after one day of our Plant Stems investigation?The plants began to turn the color of the water it was "drinking". The stems took in the water and the red or blue water colored the leaves as the water and nutrients passed through the stem.
How did the water travel?
The water traveled through the tubes. We know the celery is a vascular plant because it uses tubes to carry water and nutrients through the plant.
What observation did you make about the tubes once we cut open the celery?When we cut the celery, we observed that the tubes were red or blue depending on which color water that part of the celery was in. When we cut open the celery, the water that dripped out was colored red or blue. We observed that it was split right down the middle!
Group 1: "In between the tubes there was not color because it was the skin of the plant which protects it. "
Group 2: "On day 1, our celery was brownish and on day 2, the celery was either blue or red."
Group 3: "We observed that the celery was either red or blue because of where the stem was."
Group 4: "Our celery was cracked on the blue side, so the water still traveled to the parts even though it was broken. We could see the water in the celery."
