SEED SUPERPOWERS: How Plants Make Their Food🌱

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another trip around the solar system on the BIGGER and BETTER Science Weekly!

This episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly we continue our bigger and better podcast where we answer YOUR questions, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about the spacecraft off to Jupiter's moons to search for alien life.

Dan starts with the latest science news where we learn all the S2 meteorite that was first discovered in 2014 is said to have hit the earth billions of years ago, why climate change is making polar bears poorly and The Open University's Mark Fox-Powell tells us all about the Europa Clipper's journey to Jupiter in search of extra-terrestrial life

Then we delve into your questions where Dan explains how touch screens work & Julian Hibberd from the University of Cambridge answers Winnie's question on how water and sunlight help seeds grow?

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the headbutting dinosaur better known as the Pachycephalosaurus

The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to John Stewart from Bournemouth University to learn about why Evolutionary Palaeoecology is the best kind of science?

What do we learn about?

The S2 meteorite that hit the earth billions of years ago
Why increasing temperatures are making polar bears ill
The Europa Clipper sent to Jupiter to look for alien life
How water and sunlight help seeds grow?
Is Evolutionary Palaeoecology the best type of science?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Hello I'm future chicken but my friends at Fun Kids Science Weekly call me
0:05.4	potato because I love potatoes. I've time twisted from the year 2050 to ask do you
0:12.4	want to help protect the planet?
0:14.4	Bogtastic!
0:15.8	Future Chicken and the Planet Protectors do too!
0:19.2	Join us for our future Chicken Squakarrama podcast
0:22.4	as we pick, peck the brains of climate scientists.
0:25.6	I call it global weirding.
0:27.8	Climate activists.
0:29.3	I was wearing 87 pounds of garbage.
0:32.8	Animal protectors, artists, and even beekeepers.
0:37.2	Hang on tight because we're gonna have a blast as we time twist to the past and
0:41.8	buck to the future to discover and celebrate the things you did today that made a healthier planet positive tomorrow.
0:50.0	To listen to future chicken squacharama, search for future chicken squachorama, search for future
0:53.4	chicken squachorama a planet positive podcast in your podcast app.
0:58.6	A cook!
0:59.6	Hello, welcome a long explorer. It's almost Halloween, so how about we discover some spooky stuff for ourselves
1:07.8	and we're heading across the universe to search for it. It's a brand new Fun Kid Science Weekly. My name's Dan, this is the place where
1:16.1	we discover all those science secrets lurking here there and all over the place. And we answer
1:22.4	the questions that you've thought of, but never
1:25.1	asked. This week we're finding out how a seed grows into a plant with the help of
1:30.6	sunlight, water, and an expert who can explain everything.
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