Leaves
By Alex
When we were watching the documentary How to Grow a Planet, I saw many things that were fascinating that you had to look under a microscope to see. So I looked under the microscope, but I couldn't see somethings in my microscope because I need an electron microscope, but I saw some fascinating things. Three things were awesome: the leaves, petals, and the grasses. The first picture you see, that is one I couldn't get good because I needed an electron microscope. I learned that if you get a microscope and look at a leaf you could see black dots that breathe in light and out oxygen.
Fun fact: There is other stuff you can do! If you get an electron microscope and look at a leaf, you can see the mouths opening and closing better.
When we were watching the documentary How to Grow a Planet, I saw many things that were fascinating that you had to look under a microscope to see. So I looked under the microscope, but I couldn't see somethings in my microscope because I need an electron microscope, but I saw some fascinating things. Three things were awesome: the leaves, petals, and the grasses. The first picture you see, that is one I couldn't get good because I needed an electron microscope. I learned that if you get a microscope and look at a leaf you could see black dots that breathe in light and out oxygen.
Fun fact: There is other stuff you can do! If you get an electron microscope and look at a leaf, you can see the mouths opening and closing better.
Petals
This is a flower petal.
First, flowers are really important. Plants spread pollen and seeds. The breeze comes and blows the pollen and seeds. Not all the pollen and seeds went were they were supposed to, so that is why they developed flowers so bees would take it where it was supposed to be. There are seeds because the flowers attract insects to the pollen to spread onto another flower because a bee picks it up like a piggy back ride on its belly and legs. Flowers attract insects and animals by color, smell, fruit, nectar, and pollen. Flowers are also important because it grew into a fruit with the seed inside. Animals eat the fruit and poop the seed out in another place to spread the seed.
Now that there are flowers you know pollen is going in the right place more than it’s not because bees, ladybugs, humming birds, butterflies, monkeys and lots of other animals and insects take it where it’s supposed to be. Do you want to learn more? Watch How to Grow a Planet: Episode 2- The Power of Flowers.
First, flowers are really important. Plants spread pollen and seeds. The breeze comes and blows the pollen and seeds. Not all the pollen and seeds went were they were supposed to, so that is why they developed flowers so bees would take it where it was supposed to be. There are seeds because the flowers attract insects to the pollen to spread onto another flower because a bee picks it up like a piggy back ride on its belly and legs. Flowers attract insects and animals by color, smell, fruit, nectar, and pollen. Flowers are also important because it grew into a fruit with the seed inside. Animals eat the fruit and poop the seed out in another place to spread the seed.
Now that there are flowers you know pollen is going in the right place more than it’s not because bees, ladybugs, humming birds, butterflies, monkeys and lots of other animals and insects take it where it’s supposed to be. Do you want to learn more? Watch How to Grow a Planet: Episode 2- The Power of Flowers.
Grass
This is a blade of grass. See needles sticking out sideways? The grasses grew the needles so animals don’t want to eat the plants. Those are very sharp. You can cut yourself. If you play in the grass it is itchy, it doesn’t look like it cut you, but it did. You can’t see it unless you look under a microscope, but because all that grass with the bent spikes are rubbing and rubbing your skin that makes you itchy. I saw it because I looked under the microscope. You can have lots of fun if you get leaves, grasses, and petals from your yard and look at them under a microscope too!
For all this and more exciting facts and videos see How to Grow a Planet. Video by Professor Iain Stewart.
You can see this video on NETFLIX like we did or visit the BBC.