How to make celery blue on the leaves

We have been learning about how water travels up plants.

Our prediction:  

All the blue will come up the stem and then it will make the leaves go blue.

Observations:

4/5 The water is blue

8/5 The leaves have gone blue and some of the stem has gone blue.

Conclusion:

If the water is coloured, the celery sucks up the coloured water.  The celery goes the same colour as the water. 

Here is an example of procedural writing …

How to make celery blue on the leaves

Equipment:

·         Jar

·         Celery

·         Food colouring

·         Water

Procedure:

·         Put the celery in the jar.

·         Fill the jar with water.

·         Put the food colouring in the water.

·         Watch to see what happens.