{"id":2959,"date":"2012-04-11T16:31:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T20:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2012-04-11T16:31:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T20:31:37","slug":"dandelion-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/2012\/04\/11\/dandelion-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Dandelion Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Messi plants some of our seed starters.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lucas dissects his dandelion.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Every morning, we have a share time during our morning meeting. The Friday before our break, during our meeting, Tajanaye brought in what looked like a white dandelion seeds attached to a stem. She shared that she believed the plant to be a flower. The class began a lively discussion about whether or not the plant was a weed or a flower. Many felt strongly supporting one opinion or the other. As a class, we decided we would explore the concept the next day. Friends were invited to find dandelions outside and bring them in for dissection.<\/p>\n

I think I saw something in there. Lucas<\/p>\n

What?\u00a0 Mrs. Argus<\/p>\n

Something white. Look inside! Lucas<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t see it! Oh! I think there\u2019s a stem right here. Aidan<\/p>\n

So if it has a stem, is it a weed? Mrs. Argus<\/p>\n

No! Sascha, come open the flower! Or the weed! I don\u2019t know which one! I\u2019ve never had this experience! Lucas<\/p>\n

Its milk! Look at the white thing! Its milk. Aidan<\/p>\n

(Lucas and Carriea come over with a book.)<\/p>\n

They\u2019re weeds! They\u2019re weeds! It says their weeds!<\/p>\n

I remember when we read the thank you plants book and it had cornfields in it. It\u2019s a connection. And this says sometimes sunflowers are weeds when they come up in a corn field. Carriea<\/p>\n

(Lucas points to a picture.) It\u2019s the dandelion with all of its stuff in it.\u00a0 Lucas<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the stuff in it? Mrs. Argus<\/p>\n

I think it might have been the milk being pulled. Lucas<\/p>\n

What\u2019s this? David<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the nutrients being pulled. Being pulled from the flowers. Lucas<\/p>\n

This looks like an umbrella. David<\/p>\n

Want to see a cut open one? Lucas Cool huh?<\/p>\n

I got this! These are things that turn into weeds! (points to the seeds on the dandelion) Michael<\/p>\n

How does it turn into a weed? Mrs. Argus<\/p>\n

All it needs is a rainbow to turn into a weed! I just figured out the mystery. These do turn into the weeds! Michael<\/p>\n

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Ruth shows friends the inner workings of a dandelion. She is trying to show how the dandelion sucks up other plants' nutrients.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lucas dissects his dandelion. Every morning, we have a share time during our morning meeting. The Friday before our break, during our meeting, Tajanaye brought in what looked like a white dandelion seeds attached to a stem. She shared that she believed the plant to be a flower. The class began a lively discussion about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109820],"tags":[55278,23388,34153,23418],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argus","tag-collaboration","tag-curious","tag-problem-solving","tag-scientific-method"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}