This week Junior and Senior Infants wanted to find out how water travels through a leaf. We decided to do an experiment. Firstly we snipped off the ends of some leaves. We added water and a few drops of food colouring to each container. Finally we put a leaf in each one. We observed what happened over a few days. Our observations were that the colour moved slowly through the leaves each day. We learned a new word xylem. We found out that the xylem tubes in a plant transport water up from the roots to the entire plant including the leaves like a lift in a building.
