Let's Explore Plants (Everyday Science Facts Series Book 1)

Book Synopsis: Take a moment to think what our world would look like without plants. Quite obviously, we wouldn’t have food. No corn, wheat, chicken, beef. And definitely no chocolate or coffee! Every life-giving breath we take needs the oxygen that plants give us. Our world would be dull, lifeless and empty without them. Yet, we ignore plants most of the time. Plants are fascinating. How long would any of us survive if we couldn’t move? They breathe, eat, drink, talk, know when it is spring and ward off pests that try to eat them – without moving a muscle!

This book is written for young readers who have an appetite for knowledge, a thirst for new facts and big words. Join us in the adventure, as we explore the following topics about plants:

Chapter 1: How do plants breathe?
We describe the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide through the tiny holes in leaves.

Chapter 2: How do plants drink?
Plants have a strong plumbing system with tiny little vessels, which form wood. The sun helps that water to flow through the plant.

Chapter 3: How do plants eat?
The process photosynthesis and how carbon dioxide, water and sunlight are combined the chloroplast food factories to make sugar.

Chapter 4: How do plants grow?
Here, we talk about the building blocks of plants and how hormones help them to grow.

Chapter 5: Why do plants have roots?
Roots have many different functions, and plants need them for more than just sucking up water from the soil.

Chapter 6: How do plants make seeds?
Plants need to have their flowers pollinated, before they can start building seeds. In order to do this, they advertise to pollinators.

Chapter 7: How do plants protect themselves?
Many bugs, and small living creature want to attack plants and eat them. Plants have found clever ways of protecting themselves.

Chapter 8: Can plants talk?
Maybe plants don’t have voices, but they do communicate with other living things.

Chapter 9: Why do leaves die and fall off during autumn?
Trees need to go into a type of hibernation during winter and they lose their leaves, because they need to recycle important substances, and don’t want to lose when the leaves fall off.

Chapter 10: How do plants know that its spring?
Plants have their own biological clock ticking on the inside. They can sense how long a day is, and how cold it is, and they use these cues to time their flowering in spring.

This book is scientifically sound and written based on reliable sources. There is a glossary included at the back, as well as practical assignments for understanding each topic better.

The author has an MSc degree in Plant Biotechnology and has a passion for teaching children to love science and explore the world around them.