Kids Ask About Nature
For Science Week 2020 children from two Dublin primary schools (Rathfarnham Eductate Together National School (Rathfarnham) and The Children's House (Stillorgan)) have asked us questions about nature.
These are their great questions:
- Why do evergreen trees not lose their leaves in autumn?
- How do birds fluff out their feathers when it's cold?
- Do birds see the same colours as humans?
- Do birds pee?
- How many different types of mushroom are there?
- Why do leaves turn yellows and reds in autumn?
- Why is the sky blue?
- Why do bees sting?
- Why do plants flower at different times?
- Why do trees have rings?
- Why are some plants toxic?
- How do plants grow?
- Why do trees loose their leaves in autumn?
- Why do mushrooms often grow in circles?
- Why do flowers have different colours?
- Where do bulbs that you buy in the shops actually come from?
- Why do birds migrate south for the winter?
- How do birds know how to migrate south for the winter?
- What happens to insects over winter?
