Plants: Wonders of Nature explores the incredible diversity of the plant kingdom and all the ways plants help sustain life on earth. Students will discover what kinds of plants thrive in different habitats, how the fascinating phenomenon of photosynthesis works, and all the many ways plants help us—from the crops that we eat, to the air that we breathe, to the beauty and enjoyment they bring through gardens and nature hikes.
Did you know . . .
- There are around 375,000 species of plants described on earth, and likely even more we haven’t even discovered yet.
- A pigment called chlorophyll gives plants their green color. When light hits a plant’s chloroplasts (where the chlorophyll is contained), they absorb most of the light but reflect the green light, which our eyes detect as a green color.
- In the Kalahari Desert, there is a plant called the Shepherd plant whose roots can grow over two hundred feet deep into the ground.
- A bristlecone pine tree in eastern California, nicknamed Methuselah, is almost five thousand years old.
- More than a third of the earth’s total land area is covered with grass species.
- Some giant kelp can grow one hundred feet up from the ocean floor.
- When we eat carrots, we are actually eating a root.
- Plants like corn can be used in the production of biofuels to help us run our cars.
Catholic Permeation: What’s more, students will learn about the Fruits of the Holy Spirit, Jesus’s Parable of the Sower, St. Patrick’s use of the clover to explain the Trinity, and Catholics who made great contributions in the arena of science.
- Publication Date:
- 11/5/2021
- Product Format:
- Set
