Yesterday Hannah wanted to know if the sunflowers in the vase were alive or if they were fake. We came up with a list of ways to experiment and find out the answer.
- Can you smell them?
- Do they feel real?
- Do they look real?
- Do they have seeds? - this lead to another discussion about how the flowers in the vase were different than the large sunflower we already had in the room.
- The flowers are in water so they must be real. Can fake flowers be put in water? YES... what if we take a flower out of the water and see what happens?
Hence, we took out one flower and will see if it dies. Now of course, how will we know that it is dead?
- It will turn brown or black.
- The petals will fall off.
- The seeds will fall out.
Here is day one:
Here is day two:
Some students are still not sure if the flowers are real or not. We talked about what might happen over the weekend. They decided that if the flower turns brown and the petals fall off it was real, but if it looks the same on Monday, then it is probably fake.
(Added Tuesday, October 17, 2006)
After much deliberation, we decided the flowers were real because they changed so much over the weekend. They turned brown and some of the petals fell out. Here is the latest picture:
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