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Here are some other things to do with your
family or friends while learning about plants:
 | Take a walk around the neighborhood and look for plants and their
parts.
| Have a tasting party. Sample raw or cooked root vegetables such
as carrots, beets, turnips, rutabagas, or radishes.
| Plant the tops of root vegetables. Cut off the root vegetable at
its fattest end. Leave about 1/2 inch of the vegetable. Place it on
a water-filled saucer until it begins to sprout. When it sprouts,
place it in soil.
The best vegetables to sprout are those that have a part of the
stalk at the top like a carrot. It is best to try more than one
top at a time as not all of them will sprout.
| Take a family walk around the neighborhood. Collect samples of many
different types of leaves. First make a collection. Dry the leaves
between sheets of newspaper. Put a heavy book on top and leave them
for a week or more. Tape the leaves to sheets of construction paper
or iron the leaves between sheets of wax paper. (Before
using an iron, ask an adult to help you!) Then look at
the different shapes of the leaves. Look at the midrib and at the
veins. Count how many parts each leaf has. Find out what this plant
is.
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