Daily Job Updates for Everyone
What’s it like to be a farmer? Gardening is like farming without a lot of worries. Gardeners don’t have to make money on their crop. They don’t have to pay taxes or borrow money from the bank. Gardening is fun; farming is business. But gardeners and farmers make the same kinds of decisions. So learning … Read more
A new crop of crops How can a plant be part firefly? Here’s a riddle for you to solve. What has green leaves and glows like a firefly? Did you guess a firefly plant? Well, firefly plants don’t exist. Or do they? In a famous experiment shown here, scientists made a kind of “hybrid” using … Read more
Bigger and better How do plants form seeds? If you break open a sweet pepper, you’ll see dozens of tiny seeds that can grow into new pepper plants. Many plants reproduce by forming seeds. When planted, a seed develops into a new plant of the same kind. How do seeds form? The seeds of fruits … Read more
Diversity and Tolerance The difference between caste, colour, race, nationality and language of people is called ‘diversity’. People of different races, religions, languages and regions live together in Pakistan. More or less every country in the world has people of different colour and races. These people live together because of their common characteristics. For example, … Read more
Different countries are located in different parts of the world. We get information about their location with the help of globes and maps. Globes and maps are used to show the earth or different parts of the earth and to gather information, for example, about population, flora, climate and so on of any country. Globe(Globe … Read more
Some insects can help solve pest problems on farms and in gardens.(Battle of the Bugs) You’re a farmer with a big problem. Your farm has been invaded by pests. Grasshoppers are chewing your corn plants. Aphids are sucking sap from your pea plants. Weevils are gnawing holes in your pepper blossoms. Stalk borers are burrowing … Read more
The Talking Planet What’s the flower telling the butterfly? While scientists continue to explore the idea of plants “talking” to other plants, they know that plants do “talk” to insects. Plants produce chemical signals that contain important messages. A smell is a message. Flowers attract insects with fragrances that say, “Here’s food for you.” Butterflies … Read more
Stalk Talk(Planets of Plants.) Do plants communicate with each other? Something’s happened. You’ve shrunk to the size of a peanut. You have wings and long, floppy antennae. You are teetering on a potato leaf in a vegetable jungle. Corn, squash, and potato plants tower over you. As you can see, it’s lunchtime. And the potato … Read more
How can chemical signals help farmers? It’s night-your favorite time-and you’re flying through a field of tomatoes. You’re a fuzzy, brown cabbage looper moth, a male of your species. Suddenly your antennae pick up an irresistible fragrance. The message shrieks like a siren: Female! Female! Female! You make a beeline-oops, a mothlinetoward the smell. Finally, … Read more