Why Do Leaves Change Color?
Well our first graders wanted to figure that one out too!
Some guesses:
1. It's fall and that's what they do.
2. It's getting colder.
3. Because they're supposed to
Well they're all kind of right... but we watched this Science video
and learned all about sunlight and chlorophyll.
Then we created this awesome graph- SILENTLY
If you could figure out the pattern you picked a leaf off the pile and put it where it belonged.
And finally we did some good old leaf rubbings and talked about the job of the veins of the leaves...
right back to the tree's energy and chlorophyll.
