{"id":676089,"date":"2009-04-05T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2009\/04\/05\/science-studying-trees-leaves-and-soil\/"},"modified":"2009-04-05T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T20:15:00","slug":"science-studying-trees-leaves-and-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2009\/04\/05\/science-studying-trees-leaves-and-soil\/","title":{"rendered":"Science: Studying Trees, Leaves, and Soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we learned about trees, leaves, and soil.&nbsp; We did two experiements:<\/p>\n<p>1) We read about trees and how to determine their age, their benefit to our lives, the difference between a deciduous and evergreen tree, and the parts of a leaf.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3405\/3413067664_4a65dd0224.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3357\/3412265857_392542c690.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3615\/3412268575_c967fef271.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\n2) We looked at the parts of soil.&nbsp; We gathered some soil and added water.&nbsp; We recorded what it looked like at the beginning, then after 24 hours.&nbsp; the tiny pieces at the top are called humus (rotted plants), then the layer is typically water, clay, sand, and stones.&nbsp; We were surprised to discover that our water stayed murky after 24 hours, unlike the experiment we watched on the &#8216;Discover and Do&#8217; DVD. <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3374\/3412271033_fb38652b2d.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3343\/3412273605_e86a379c6f.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3415\/3413080862_a177de831e.jpg?v=0\" \/>shaking things up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After 24 hours&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3603\/3413109836_626f4427e4.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we learned about trees, leaves, and soil.&nbsp; We did two experiements: 1) We read about trees and how to determine their age, their benefit to our lives, the difference between a deciduous and evergreen tree, and the parts of a leaf. 2) We looked at the parts of soil.&nbsp; We gathered some soil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-homeschool"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}