Fascination of Plants Day 2015
Why plants can glow?
With the support of the European Project AccliPhot we would like to invite children aged 8 to 11 to participate in our workshop “Fascination of Plant science”. Through presentations and jointly performed live experiments we want to demonstrate and explain some fascinating plant mechanisms and functions as well as their significance for the scientific world.
Without plants, life on earth would not exist, as we know it today. Plants are the ones who produce the oxygen needed and form the basic food staples for all forms of life, including humans. Using the sunlight as energy source, plants are able to realise one of the most important biochemical processes on earth. This process called photosynthesis takes place in all cells containing chloroplasts. During the conversion of light energy into chemical energy light can be re-emitted by the chlorophyll resulting in a phenomenon called chlorophyll fluorescence. This is the energy that cannot be used by the plant and therefore is released as fluorescence, a property that may be useful for science in the future.
Information about the workshop:
Date: 20th May 2015, starting at 10am
Duration: about 3h
Participants: School classes (age 8-11), max. group size 30 pupils
The Workshop is free of charge.
For registration please write an to Dr. Ovidiu Popa.
Further information about the Fascination of Plants Day can be found here.
The Workshop is fully booked!
Here you can download the step-by-step manuals for your experiments at home!
Contact:
Dr. Stephanie Schelder
Tel.: +49 211 81-02920
