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Using Spinach in the Lab

Practicals Teaching topics Description Growing and sourcing

 

You don't have to eat your greens - you can bring them into the lab and use them for investigating photosynthesis instead. Fresh spinach leaves make a great resource for TLC.

 

Practicals

  • Photosynthesis: Resource - An investigation into the separation of photosynthetic pigments.
  • Photosynthesis - Resource: Investigating the behaviour of leaf discs This is a hands-on way to investigate photosynthesis, and can be used to compare sun and shade plants, different light intensities, etc. 

 

Teaching Topics

  • Chromatography
  • Photosynthetic pigments

 

Description

Spinach, Spinacia oleracea

Spinach is a leafy, green vegetable grown as an annual. Recorded to have first been cultivated by the Persians. Modern breeding techniques have reduced the calcium oxalate levels, which in older varieties caused a bitter-tasting leaf.


Growing and sourcing

Obtaining: Easily sourced from greengrocers, markets and supermarkets. To keep the leaves fresh, you may wish to look for bundles of spinach leaves with longer stalks, cut the ends off and put them in water.

  

Tags: 7 -11 (KS2), 11 -14 (KS3), 14 -16 (KS4), Post 16, Photosynthesis

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