A Cool Pine Cone Experiment!

Hello, today I'm sharing a cool experiment that we did in our homeschool when we were leaning about cones. We had these cones since last year, I saved them from one of our trips to the Arboretum, because I knew I would need them for an experiment.

Initially,  we read about cones, and then she wrote some important facts about them in her worksheet that is part of her Science Curriculum. We took a closer look at them to identify the parts, and I wanted something more hands on, so I went online, researched and found some cool worksheets at The Crafty Classroom, then Little V was able to label the parts of the pine cone and we also found another cool experiment.

The pictures below, show that we submerged one pine cone in water, after about 2 hours we could see that the pine cone scales started to close up.

Then, 6 hours later check out how closed up the scales were!!

Cool, right?! I didn't now that and we were pretty excited about it! So we did some extra research and learned that the pine cones scales respond to changes in humidity. When it's warm and dry the scales open up to release the cone's seeds and when it's humid or wet, the scales close up by expanding the scales cells.

Well, that's it for today! Hope you enjoyed our little experiment!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Vanessa Z. Pawlicki