Cereal Nina and the Neurons

# If you've got a question and you don't know where to go

# Ask Nina for some help Cos she's got a science show

# She makes sense of her senses While helping all her fans

# By doing her experiments with potions and with bangs

-# Touch your tongue

-Tongue!

-# Fingers

-Fingers!

-# Eyes.

-Eyes!

-Ears.

-Ears!

-Nose.

-Nose!

# Nina and the Neurons find out what you need to know

# Nina and the Neurons find out what you need to know

# Luke, he helps us with our eyes and Felix with our touch

# Ollie sniffs out smells And Belle, she hears so much

# Bud is Ollie's brother He helps us with our taste

# They're Nina's little Neurons And they're coming to your place!

-# Touch your tongue

-Tongue!

-# Fingers

-Fingers!

-# Eyes.

-Eyes!

-Ears.

-Ears!

-Nose.

-Nose!

# Nina and the Neurons find out what you need to know

# Nina and the Neurons find out what you need to know

# Oh yeah! #

# Doo-doo-doo

# Doo-doo-doo-doo. #

Oh, hello there. I'm just unpacking some yummy treats.

I've got some apples and bananas. Some lovely yoghurt.

And here's some cereal for my breakfast tomorrow.

And a cheeky packet of biscuits.

I think it's time to put the kettle on for a cup of tea.

BLEEPING

Oh. I hear a beep, I see a flash, I wonder what they're going to ask.

-BOTH: Hi, Nina!

-Hi, guys!

-We've got a question for you.

Where does the cereal I have for my breakfast come from?

That's a great question.

Where does the cereal I have for my breakfast come from?

I love cereal, but where does it come from?

Why don't you come down to my workshop and we'll investigate?

-BOTH: See you soon, Nina, bye!

-Bye!

Well, I'll need some help to answer this, and I know just who to ask.

OK, Neurons, time to get to work.

ALL: Neurons at the ready, Nina.

OK. Today's question is,

"Where does the cereal I have for my breakfast come from?"

Which Neuron will be most useful to help find the answer?

ALL: Me! Me! Me! Oh, me!

Will it be fabulous Felix?

I can help so very much if you need the sense of touch.

Will it be beautiful Belle?

I send messages to brain from ear. If there's a sound, I'll help you hear.

Will it be lovely Luke?

For looking and seeing, day or night,

I'll help you with your sense of sight.

Will it be awesome Ollie?

If it's pongy or whiffy but you can't tell,

-my messages help your sense of smell.

-Or will it be baby Bud?

Sour, salty, bitter or sweet, I'm your taste buddy whenever you eat!

-It's Bud!

-Yippee!

-ALL:

-Go, Bud! Go, Bud! Go, Bud! Go, Bud!

Give me a taste of the action, Nina!

Today's question is,

"Where does the cereal I have for my breakfast come from?"

Because breakfast cereal is something we eat, Bud,

our taste Neuron, will be helping us, but stand by, Neurons -

I've a feeling I may need help from all of you.

Right, I need to get the workshop ready before the engineers arrive.

Gaby loves the colour red. Hayley likes fish and chips.

-I like having cereal for breakfast.

-Where does cereal come from?

So today, for one day only, Hayley and Gaby become the engineers.

-Hi, Gaby. Hi, Hayley.

-BOTH:

-Hi, Nina.

Welcome to my workshop, and thanks for your great question,

"Where does the cereal I have for my breakfast come from?"

To find out the answer, let's start by using our senses.

ALL: Woop-woo!

A senses experiment! We're ready, Nina!

First, let's have a look at some breakfast cereals.

There you go, girls. Have a feel of those.

-FELIX:

-Hm, it feels rather rough, and very crumbly.

All of these foods are made from something called cereal grains.

Cereals are plants like wheat and barley, and because cereal grains

are used for lots of our foods, they are really important.

Nina, please, please, please, please taste some cake!

Oh, if you insist, Bud. I'll just have a little bit.

OHHH! Cake!

LAUGHTER

To find out where our cereal comes from,

we need to know more about what it is.

Barley and wheat grow in fields. This is barley. Have a look at that.

Oh, you've got a wee squinty piece.

-FELIX:

-The barley's rather sharp and prickly.

These spiky coverings protect grains at the tip of the barley,

and it's these grains we use to make food.

Here are some grains without their coverings.

Barley and wheat grains are special because that's the part we eat.

The other bits aren't very tasty.

But does this look like your breakfast cereal?

No, it looks different.

Ah, you see, a factory cooks and squashes the grains of barley

and wheat into flakes, hoops

and other shapes that become our breakfast cereal.

The grains can also be crushed to make flour for baking cakes,

bread or pasta.

But, Nina, how do you get the grains out of their covering?

Great question, Luke. Time for an experiment.

It's very important to protect our eyes

when we're doing experiments in our workshop.

It could get a bit dusty, so we're going to put these masks on.

We want to find the best way to get the tasty grains out of this barley

so, Gaby, I'd like you to rub the barley

with your hands, across the bumpy surface,

and, Hayley, if you can use the rolling pin to crush yours,

and I shall try tapping this barley into this tray.

Three, two, one, go!

OLLIE SNIFFS Mmm! A lovely cereal smell.

-OK, stop there! Stop there.

-NINA LAUGHS

Great work, engineers.

Because we only eat the barley and wheat grains, we have to remove

all of the coverings from around them.

Tapping, rolling and rubbing are all great ways to do this.

-Ooh!

-SHE GASPS

But it takes lots and lots of grains

to make even a small bowl of cereal.

To gather enough grains to make breakfast cereal and other foods

like bread, engineers have invented some very clever machinery.

To find out more, we're heading off to a golden paradise.

Let's go, engineers.

-OLLIE:

-Off we go

for another adventure.

Nina said a golden paradise.

Perhaps it's a golden beach.

Mm, I see plenty of golden something,

but it's not the seaside.

Now, this is a farmer's field,

and he's kindly given us permission to do an experiment.

Now, this barley's grown really high. What shall we do first?

Cut it, Nina.

Hee-hee! Lets get snipping.

Great! We've got some lovely barley.

Now, it takes many, many grains to make just one bowl of cereal,

so I think we're going to need some more. So let's have a look around.

Hoo-hoo! Do you think there might be enough grain here

for a bowl of cereal?

BOTH: Yes, Nina!

Wow, a field of gold.

But it would take ages to cut all of this barley just using scissors,

so, come on, I want to show you some clever engineering.

ENGINE RUMBLING

-I am loving the loud engine noises!

-That is way cool.

This machine is called a combine harvester.

A combine what, Nina?

Combine harvester.

Engineers invented it to make farmers' work quicker and easier.

And when we cut cereals like barley and wheat, it is called harvesting.

What does combine mean, Nina?

It's called a combine harvester

because it combines lots of jobs into one machine.

Remember, we tapped, and rolled, and rubbed the barley?

Well, this machine cuts the barley and does all of those jobs, too.

Let me show you how it works.

What does that thing at the front do?

The big spinning roller holds the barley in place

and a cutter harvests it, just like we did with scissors.

What happens next, Nina?

Inside the machine it bangs, rolls and rubs the barley

to remove the coverings.

Then the tasty grains come flying through a tube

and a tractor collects them.

What is that coming out the back, Nina?

Well, Luke, this machine is so clever

that it spits out the coverings and the parts that we can't eat.

It's called straw.

The farmer will gather it up into haystacks

and straw can be used as food and bedding for animals.

How does the machine know what to keep and what to throw out the back?

What a great question! And this next experiment will help to explain.

Let's get investigating.

You guys are going to be combine harvesters

and it is your job to sort out the grains from the straw,

and the bits that we don't want.

So here we've a big sieve,

so let's try sieving this mixture and see what happens.

That's it. Good.

OK, stop rubbing!

Oh, well done, guys. You were GREAT combine harvesters.

So what has happened to the mixture?

-The grains have come through the sieve.

-Brilliant.

This shows just how amazing combine harvesters are.

They cut the barley, bang, roll and rub it

and then sieve the mixture so the grains are collected for food

and the coverings are sprinkled out onto the field.

That's what I call clever engineering.

Your question was,

where does the cereal I have for my breakfast come from?

And I think we've answered it.

We discovered that breakfast cereal and lots of other foods

are made from cereal grains, like barley and wheat.

It can be quite tricky

to separate the tasty grain from the covering around it

so engineers made combine harvesters to do all those jobs for us.

And the yummy grains are turned into foods like breakfast cereal,

and pasta, and breads, and cakes. Woo-hoo-hoo!

I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.

-So I hope that's answered your question.

-Thanks, Nina!

You're welcome.

If you want to know more about the science and engineering

that's all around us, go to the Nina section on the CBeebies website.

Have fun!

-# Pulling.

-Pushing.

-Twisting.

-Mixing.

-# Drilling.

-Squeezing.

-Floating.

-Go engineering

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-I have had a fabby day!

-We got to taste cake!

It has been a marvellous day -

especially feeling the prickly wheat.

Oh, I have had a brilliant day,

hearing the big, loud combine harvester.

And remember, engineers help to build the world around us.

They make things work and use science to solve problems.

See you again soon! Bye!

ALL: Bye!

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