Bill Nye The Science Guy Series | ||||||||||||
 Bill Nye knows how to provide easy access to hard science. What's his secret? A fast-paced approach blending humorous hijinks and hands-on activities with real-life situations, with a focus on illustrating and reinforcing key concepts in a really enjoyable and totally non-boring way! Bill encourages young students to ask interesting questions... then shows them how to discover fascinating answers. | ||||||||||||
| Farming | ||||||||||||
| It's Old Mac Science Guy's 'Farming' programme, E-I-E-I-O! Before food gets into your kitchen, before it even gets to the supermarket, it's on a farm. Almost everything we eat is grown on a farm, an area of land used to raise animals and plants. Farming nowadays can get pretty complicated. Farmers are scientists - agricultural scientists. Farmers work hard to keep their farms healthy. Soil is stirred up to get oxygen to the micro organisms that live in between the grains and to plant roots — that's called tilling the soil to aerate it. Plants need to be protected from pests with either chemical pesticides or biological pesticides. Animals like bats and friendly insects eat other pest insects (chomp, chomp). Animals are milked, fed, sheared, slaughtered or cleaned-up after. Farms usually take up large areas of land that were once home to wild animals. In fact, for the first time in history, there are more farm animals than wild ones! Farms also use a lot of chemical pesticides that can pollute water, if we're not careful. But farms provide food for millions of people, including you. Next time food calms your rumbling stomach, think about farming. The 'Farming' episode will give you plenty of food for your thoughts, as Bill discovers why farmers really dig their soil | ||||||||||||
| Running Time: 26 mins | ||||||||||||
| Age Range: 9 - 13 Years | ||||||||||||
| Year of Production: 1999 | ||||||||||||
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