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Once apon a time in a far away land lived a Princess 

named Kelly and her best friend named Sarah. Princess 

Kelly and Sarah were very smart and spent most of their 

time in the library. Princess Kelly's favorite subject was 

Science. She remembered one day during school when 

her teacher said that plants eat food just like humans.  

Princess Kelly was very confused because she had never 

seen a plant try and eat food before. Princess Kelly asked 

Sarah if she ever saw a plant eat food and Sarah said 

that she'd never seen it before. After school that day they 

planned spying on the plants to see if they could catch 

one in the middle of eating something.  

Not knowing how long they would be out, 

watching the plants, they packed snacks just in 

case they got hungry. Once they got to the 

correct spot they sat and waited to see if a 

plant would move and eat something.

Hours passed and Princess Kelly and Sarah were 

down to their last snack. "Maybe we should 

give up" Princess Kelly said. "No!" Sarah said. 

"I am sure they will move soon. Maybe they 

just are not hungry our there is not any food 

and they are starving. I will give them the 

last piece of my pop tart and maybe then they 

will move". "Okay" said Princess Kelly, "but 

if they do not take the bait after ten minutes 

than we are leaving!"  

Sarah threw her last piece of pop tart perfectly in 

front of the beautiful patch of plants. Time passed 

and still the plants did not move. "Okay, let us get 

our stuff and go, it is getting late anyway", Princess 

Kelly said.  

Just as Princess Kelly and Sara turned around 

they heard a big snapping noise. They quickly 

turned around in disbelief. They quickly saw 

that the snack was still in front of the 

flower and the flower had not moved. "Hi!" 

said the talking raccoon. "My name is Tom! 

Tom the Talking Raccoon! Why did you just try 

and feed that plant a pop tart?" Princess Kelly 

and and Sarah both looked at each other in 

disbelief. "Hi! Talking raccoon. You would not 

happen to know how plants eat their food 

would you?". The raccoon laughed and looked at  

both of the girls. "Wait you thought that you 

could feed a plant a pop tart?" Tom said while 

laughing."Flowers do a special thing called 

photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is the process of 

when the plants take in water, carbon dioxide, 

and sunlight through the leaves. That's what 

they eat.""Wait" Sarah said while looking at 

the plant. I just wasted my last piece of pop 

tart!" "That's not the point,Princess Kelly 

said,what do plants do with the Sunlight, 

Carbon dioxide, and water?".  

"Plants Convert those things into oxygen and sugar also 

known as glucose. A plant could be eating right now 

and we would never even know it because they do not 

move for their food their food comes to them" said 

Tom."We've got to go but tomorrow tell us all about 

plants!" said Princess Kelly. 

The Next day all Sarah and Kelly could think about was 

plants and the talking raccoon they had so many 

questions to ask the raccoon tonight when they went to 

go talk to him. Once school got out they ran to the 

same field they were at last night and called for Tom. At 

first no one answered after a few minutes of searching 

for Tom they found Tom sleeping in a log with pop tart 

crumbs all over his mouth."Tell us all that you know 

about plants!" Princess Kelly said

"Energy for photosynthesis comes from 

sunlight" said Tom. " "What plant pigments 

are involved in photosynthesis?" asked Sarah. " 

Well, Chlorophyll a, Chlorophyll b, and 

Careotenoids" Tom said,while wiping off the 

crumbs off of his mouth. "Interesting fact 

Chlorophyll looks green to us because most of 

the green wave lengths are reflected rather 

than being absorbed. For this reason green is 

not an effective color to power photosynthesis. 

Instead violet is the best color because it has 

the most power to power photosynthesis." 

"Wow!" said the girls at the same time. "In 

what organelle of the plant cell does this take 

place?" Said Princess Kelly. " In the 

Chloroplast and the two different stages of 

photosynthesis are the light reactions and the 

Calvin Cycle." "This all makes sense now!" 

said the girls. "Where does each part take 

place?" asked Sarah. " The light reaction takes 

place with in the thyklaoids and the Calvin 

cycle takes place in stroma."

said Tom. "What happens in the light and dark reactions and 

which is which?" asked Princess Kelly. " Dark reactions make 

use of these organic energy molecules (ATP and NADPH). 

This reaction cycle is also called Calvin Benison Cycle and it 

occurs in the stroma. The light-dependent reactions, 

converts solar energy captured by chlorophyll into ATP and 

high-energy electrons. During the process of photosynthesis 

plants break apart the reactants of carbon dioxide and water 

and recombine them to produce oxygen (O2) and a form of 

sugar called glucose (C6H12O6)." " Thank you for all of this 

information we really appreciate it!One last question why is 

glucose important what is it?" asked Princes Kelly as she 

grabbed her stuff getting ready to leave. "Glucose is sugar 

and is very important because Glucose is important to 

photosynthesis because it is the product

produced by photosynthesis. Plants then use this glucose for 

energy in order to carry out photosynthesis again.

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