May want to cut the carrots ahead of time for the children. Share ideas about the importance of roots. Try to help them figure out that roots help plants to stay put, store food for the plant, and absorb minerals and water from the soil around it. Ask them if all roots are the same for all plants. Come to conclusions that there are different kinds of roots and they are described by the way they grow or look.
Some plants have webbing roots that look like a lot of hairs in a ball or clump.
Others have what we call taproots. Share ideas about the parts of plants that we eat. Introduce the idea of a taproot by looking at a carrot. If possible, show them a real carrot plant or a picture of a carrot plant. Activity Today we are going to do an experiment to help us understand what taproots are and what they do.