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IB Physics Measurement and uncertainties: Significant Figures
Using significant figures is as easy as watching Netflix! This lesson will bring back the basics: counting and rounding significant figures. To finish, we’ll explore how significant figures are related to accuracy and how to approach...
FuseSchool
What Are Fertilisers?
What are fertilisers? Fertilisers help to plants grow, thus increasing crop yields. They contain helpful nutrients and minerals like nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous which aid in plant growth. Excess fertilisers washing off fields...
Science360
What will food production look like in the future?
Adam Wolf, founder and CEO of Arable Labs, describes the future of food production. Arable Labs, an NSF-funded small business, has developed a crop and weather sensor that delivers real-time, precision weather information straight to the...
Curated Video
Introduction to Organic Gardening
This video discusses the importance of organic gardening and the benefits of growing your own fresh produce. It provides tips and guidance on preparing the soil, choosing the right plants, proper watering techniques, natural pest...
Mazz Media
Understanding Producers and the Food Chain
This video is an educational program that teaches about producers in the ecosystem. The video also covers the process of photosynthesis that plants use to produce glucose, and it introduces the concept of a food chain to explain how...
Curated Video
I WONDER - What Causes Droughts?
This video is answering the question of what causes droughts.
US Department of Agriculture
Healthy Soil Vs. Drought
California has been historically dry, but healthy soil practices are helping some farmers weather the drought.
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Mineral Requirements of Plants
It describes the need for mineral nutrition in plants, lists the criteria for essentiality of an element and classifies the minerals required by plants as macro and micronutrients.
US Department of Agriculture
Nature’s New “Soil Cleaner”
Scientists with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service in central California are using cactus and other plants to remove toxins from soil and to create biofuels. USDA’s Patrick O’Leary has more.
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Agricultural Practices - An Overview
It explains agricultural practices and talks about various types of crops.
Professor Dave Explains
Plant Anatomy and Structure
We've learned about the types of plant cells, and the types of plant tissues, so the next step up on the hierarchy of organization is organs and organ systems. Plants have these too! The stem, the leaves, the roots, these are all...
Maddie Moate
How to make a Bee Cafe! | Maddie Moate
Find out how to make a Bee Cafe! A one-pot stop for our pollinator friends no matter where you live. If you make your own Bee Cafe then send me photos, I'd love to see what you create!
Professor Dave Explains
Anthrax Bacillus anthracis
Most of us know about anthrax either because of the terrorism involving sending anthrax in the mail, or because of the metal band by the same name. But let's get a closer look at the actual bacterium, Bacillus anthracis.
Let's Tute
Vegetative Propagation: Asexual Mode of Reproduction in Plants
In this video, the teacher explains the different methods of artificial vegetative propagation used by plants for asexual reproduction. The four methods covered are cutting, grafting, layering, and tissue culture.
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Seed Selection and Sowing
It explains the common methods of seed selection. It talks about the precautions observed at the time of sowing of seeds.
Next Animation Studio
Ex-NASA engineer to plant one billion trees using drones
Oxford-based start-up BioCarbon Engineering, founded by former NASA engineer Lauren Fletcher, is planning to fight industrial deforestation by planting 1 billion trees a year using drones. In a video made by the company, BioCarbon...
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Water in Soil
It explains soil moisture, the percolation rate of soil and the absorption of water by soil.
FuseSchool
GM Crops
GM stands for genetically modified. So, GM crops are plants grown for food whose genes have been altered using genetic engineering. In some cases, the genes of other organisms have been inserted into the genome of the crop plant to...
Curated Video
I WONDER - What Are The Main Parts Of A Plant?
This video is answering the question of what are the main parts of a plant.
PBS
Can Farms and Forests Coexist?
Deforestation is a big problem for the climate. This kind of land use releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than any single country, besides the United States or China. And most of the deforestation in the world today happens...
Financial Times
Metagenomics: mapping the mysteries of soil
A teaspoon of agricultural soil contains more than a billion living organisms. This biodiversity plays a key role in its ability to support plant life, including crops, but identifying and counting soil microbes is incredibly difficult....
Curated Video
Soil: The Skin of the Earth
Soil is a vital natural resource that supports life on Earth. It is a mixture of minerals, organic matter, gases, liquids, and organisms. Soil plays a crucial role in providing nutrients and moisture for plant growth, purifying water,...
Curated Video
Germination: How Does A Seed Become A Plant?
Seed grow into plants through the process of germination. Germination requires optimum sunlight, temperature, water and air for the seed to turn into a plant. Isn’t it amazing that a tree as tall as a building can emerge from just a tiny...
Curated Video
Asexual Reproduction in Plants
This is a video on asexual reproduction in plants. The video explains the process of producing offspring without the fusion of gametes and how this occurs in plants through mitosis. The concept of clones is introduced, and both natural...