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Plant Water Transport Poster 🌉
See how a tree uses the exact same capillary action as your paper towel bridges to drink water from its roots all the way to its highest leaves!
Quick Info 📋
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File Type
PDF!
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Pages
📄 1 page
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Time
⏱️ Print & hang!
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Kid-Safe
Yes!
See What's Inside 👀
Preview pages
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The Full Tree — how water travels from root to leaf!
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Capillary Action Close-Up — water climbing upward against gravity!
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Paper Towel to Real Plant — connecting your experiment to nature!
What's Included 📦
Everything you need
✓ Full tree cross-section illustration!
✓ Capillary action step-by-step diagram!
✓ Paper towel vs. plant xylem comparison!
✓ Kid-friendly definitions for Capillary Action, Cohesion, and Absorption!
✓ Easy to Print and Hang!
How to Use 🎯
Different ways to enjoy
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At Home!
Hang in a kitchen or bedroom after the Walking Water experiment — look at it every day and ask: which layer is the water in right now?
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In Class!
Perfect for a plant biology or water science unit. Makes an excellent classroom nature wall anchor.
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Nature Walk!
Take this poster outside and find a real tree.
Ask: 'Right now, water is traveling up inside this tree — can you find where the roots would be?'
What Kids Will Learn 📚
Science + Art
Skills We're Building! 💪
🌟 Capillary Action Science!
🌟 How Plants Drink Water!
🌟 Connecting Experiments to Nature!
🌟 Plant Biology Basics!
🌟 Science Vocabulary!
What You Need🎒
Just a few things
→ A Printer! 🖨️
→ Optional: Laminator! 🏷️
→ Optional: Tape or sticky tack to hang!
For Grown-Ups 👨👩👧
Tips and ideas
👨👩👧 Parent Tips!
After the Walking Water experiment, take this poster and a glass of water outside to a real tree. Pour a little water near the base and say: 'Right now that water is beginning to climb up inside the tree — the same way it climbed up our paper towels.' The connection between lab and nature is the heart of this poster.
Why Do Leaves Change Colors? with Freddy
🏫 Teacher Guide!
Perfect for a K-2 plant needs and properties of materials unit! Standards: NGSS K-LS1-1 (plants need water) and NGSS 2-PS1-1 (properties of materials including absorption).
The paper towel vs. plant xylem comparison is a strong cross-concept bridge that helps students generalize beyond the specific experiment.