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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

Stop-motion is an animation technique that moves physical objects frame-by-frame to create an illusion of movement when the frames are played in sequence, and there are many ways to make them. I...

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/playful-cricut-paper-pup-a-stop-motion-demonstration

To create secure pathways for animals to move safely across the landscape, engineered structures and designated zones are constructed over and under roadways. These are wildlife crossings, and t...

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/why-are-wildlife-crossings-crucial-for-animals-and-humans-alike

“When it comes to fighting climate change, you probably know how important renewable energy is. And you may know about how forests and other natural landscapes can soak up carbon. “But there...

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/blue-carbon-the-ocean-wetlands-and-climate-change

The lush gardens at Claude Monet’s home in the French town of Giverny are well-known as the inspiration and setting for many of his signature Impressionist paintings. Visit the garden with thi...

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/the-water-lily-garden-of-claude-monet-a-video-visit-to-giverny-france

“What’s that bird that sounds like Star Wars singing on my roof? What bird sings it’s own name? What’s that laughing sound you heard in the woods? “It’s time to take out those EarPod...

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/what-bird-is-that-an-animated-bird-guide-series-by-will-rose

Picture words as building blocks. A prefix is an extra block you attach at the beginning of a word to change its meaning or give it more detail, like adding a new bit of information. For instanc...

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/prefix-or-suffix-by-the-bazillions

Glass windows. Drinking glasses. Reading glasses. Glass screens on our televisions, computers, and smartphones, and so much more. Glass is such a key material in our built world, allowing us to ...

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/how-is-glass-made

With a mix of focus and a casual style, Yohei Kisanuki, also known as LimbaTrip, draws frame after frame of a phénakistiscope—a zoetrope-like spinning paper disc. Using small magnets to secur...

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/limbatrip-climbers-dancing-walking-drawing-phenakistiscope

Mollies (Poeciliidae) are common tropical fish found from the southern United States down to South America, and in fish store aquariums. In the wild, mollies are often silvery and plain, but sel...

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/golden-molly-fish-babies-birth-video

Why are black holes like vacuum cleaners? How do scientists detect black holes? Can we know what’s inside one? What if we fall in? And what’s an event horizon? Travel to the edge of a black ...

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/whats-inside-a-black-hole-royal-observatory

Stinging nettle has a long history of human use, dating back thousands of years. It has been valued for its medicinal properties, as well as for its utility as fiber and food. Its young, tender ...

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/stinging-nettle-forest-survival-food-foraging-1700s-townsends

“Have you ever sat down to take a test and completely forgotten what you had studied, or opened your fridge and not remembered what you came to get? “Quite often, we only remember these thin...

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/what-is-context-dependent-memory