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The Field Museum is helping to restore local native plants in Illinois. Host Emily Graslie discusses how 145-year-old beans from the botanical collection is helping to de-extinct a rare species of endangered legumes and flowers. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
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The Magic School Bus is an award winning animated children’s television series based on the book series of the same title by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. It is notable for its use of celebrity talent and being both highly entertaining and educational. The kids rent a rainforest cocoa tree as an Earth Day present for Ms. Frizzle. But when the harvest arrives, there's only one shriveled cocoa bean and a note from Inspector 47. The note reports that the tree isn't producing beans. Ms. Frizzle takes the class to the rain forest to meet the inspector and find out why the trees aren’t producing cocoa beans.
One of the fifteen parts of the "Farm to Market" series. Reveals the process behind one of the world's most popular treats. Demonstrates how chocolate begins as cacao beans growing on the cacao plant. The journey continues with the processing of cacao seeds into cocoa, which is then transformed into delicious chocolate products.
One of the fifteen parts of the "Farm to Market" series. A vegetable can be the stem, leaf, root, or even the flower of a plant. Documents the growth, maturation, and harvest of several kinds of vegetables, highlighting their similarities and differences. Follows along as these foods are packaged for market.
The Magic School Bus is an award winning animated children’s television series based on the book series of the same title by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. It is notable for its use of celebrity talent and being both highly entertaining and educational. When Phoebe tries to grow a big vine for her school's production of Jack and the Beanstalk, all she ends up with is a stunted little sprout. To help out, Ms. Frizzle turns her into a real vine. But to grow tall, Phoebe needs to figure out how plants eat. To unearth the amazing ways plants make their own food, Ms. Frizzle and the kids shrink down and dig deep in a quest to root out the facts.
