Filmmaker Andrew Lavers uses his passion for editing in digital and analog ways, including creating YouTube films, mixing tactile activities into his digital work, and turning articles into poem...
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/how-to-make-newspaper-blackout-poetry
Axel Scheffler’s illustrations come to life in this animated read aloud of children’s author Julia Donaldson’s picture book The Snail and the Whale by the Belgium-based Moving Stories YouT...
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/the-snail-and-the-whale-an-animated-read-aloud
“In the 1930s, hundreds of thousands of Americans were recruited across the United States to protect and preserve the country’s forests, parks, and fields,” this Untold History video summa...
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/civilian-conservation-corps-1933-1942-video
Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park is a protected wonder known for its rich biodiversity, pristine wilderness, and abundant wildlife, including elephants, hippos, crocodiles, and a wide vari...
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/red-billed-quelea-murmuration-sound-recording
Elodea densa, sometimes referred to as Brazilian Elodea or anacharis, is a water plant commonly available in pet stores to help decorate and oxygenate hobby aquariums. Like all plants, sunlight�...
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/plants-photosynthesis-elodea-densa-experiment
A pre-drilled wooden base and laser-cut clear plastic supports hold up 3D-printed white ramps, gears, cams, and levers, all built to move 30 mm wooden balls smoothly through the course. “The R...
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/designing-a-3d-printed-rollercoaster-clock-from-idea-to-reality
This particular serpent is not an animal; it’s a low-pitched wood and leather instrument that was invented in France around 1595. It has six tone holes for playing different notes, as well as ...
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/how-do-you-play-a-serpent
“We’ve been using pigments and dyes for thousands of years, but they’re not the whole story when it comes to making color. ‘Structural’ color occurs when tiny nanostructures interact w...
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/structural-colors-nature-energy-efficiency-video
Bactrian Camel Festivals are winter celebrations that offer a peek at the world of Mongolian camel herders in the Gobi Desert. The events can include camel polo, races, and “beauty parades” ...
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/bactrian-camel-race-in-the-gobi-desert
Hedgehog slice, kalter hund (cold dog), kalte schnauze (cold snout), or kellerkuchen (basement cake). This classic no-bake German chocolate biscuit cake appears to have many names and recipes. P...
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/hedgehog-slice-no-bake-german-biscuit-cake
Every January, when emperor penguin chicks are around 5 months old and ready to leave their parents for the first time, they trek to the water’s edge to take an inaugural swim, a milestone kno...
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/emperor-penguin-chicks-jump-off-a-50-foot-cliff-in-antarctica
When watercolors are used on a wet piece of watercolor paper, the colors spread and feather in fluffy ways. When the paper is dry, the paint edges are more defined. Both ways can yield the image...
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/how-to-paint-a-robin-with-two-different-watercolor-techniques
What does your stomach do? Before there were TED-Ed videos to explain how your digestive system works, there were educational “sound filmstrips,” sets of audio recordings and still images pr...
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/the-stomach-a-1974-sound-filmstrip-about-the-digestive-system
This house-wide Rube Goldberg Machine keeps going and going, from the kitchen to the bathroom to the bedroom to an office and out to the living room, to serve a scoop of ice cream with chocolate...
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/ice-cream-server-rube-goldberg-machine-sprice-machines
“Families have a new role: to provide emotional support. For mother and baby, nothing in the world is more important or brings greater joy.” This clip from Natural World: Wild Mothers and Ba...
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/a-mother-chimpanzee-teaches-her-baby-to-fish-for-termites