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Outdoor Safety
Yesterday your student learned how to stay safe at the playground. Today he will learn more outdoor safety by learning about strangers.
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Making a Community Go Round
Miss Palomine talks about how lucky she is to live in a community with so many community helpers. She reviews many of the community helpers and tells what they all do to make the community a better place to live.
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The Fireman's Tools
Miss Palomine explains that a fireman needs special tools to do his dangerous job of fighting fires. She then lists and describes some of those tools.
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The Fireman
Miss Palomine tells your student what a community is. She introduces the concept of the community helper and opens the discussion with the first community helper, the firefighter.
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Too Hot to Handle
Miss Palomine gives examples of things that are hot, cold, warm, and cool. She then explains to the student why he should stay away from things that are very hot and very cold.
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Hot, Warm, Cold, and Cool
Miss Palomine gives examples of things that are hot, cold, warm, and cool. She and the student then look for examples for hot, cold, warm, and cool.
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Indoor Safety
Miss Palomine helps the student identify potentially dangerous objects around the house. She provides tips to help the student stay away from potential household safety hazards.
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How Trauma Memories Differ From Normal Memories
When you experience an emotionally traumatic event, the way you remember the event is very different from the way you remember a non-traumatic event. Why? Because trauma memories are stored in a different parts of the brain than...
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Let's Talk about Winter
Miss Palomine talks about the changes she sees when fall turns to winter. She talks about the different clothes we wear in fall and winter and explains that winter comes between fall and spring. She talks about all the changes we see...
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Thomas Edison and the Lightbulb
Miss Palomine enters the classroom and finds it dark. She turns on the desk lamp. This begins the discussion of Thomas Edison, the light bulb, and the various uses of electricity in modern life.
The Guardian
Muslim Americans on life after 9/11: 'The toll has been huge'
In the years that followed the terrorist attacks, Muslim Americans faced intense suspicion and discrimination. Here, Kausam Salam, Zainab Johnson, Sabiha Hussain, Mehdi Hasan and Jaime 'Mujahid' Fletcher reflect on the events of that day...
The Guardian
The last king of Eswatini? Reporting on protests in Africa's last absolute monarchy
Cebelihle Mbuyisa is a freelance journalist who was beaten for covering pro-democracy protests in the kingdom of Eswatini. Formerly known as Swaziland, the country has been rocked in recent weeks by anti-monarchy protests calling for...
The Guardian
Juste Debout: the world's biggest street-dance competition – video
Dancers from all over the world compete in the international tour of Juste Debout in the hope that they will get the chance to battle in the preliminary rounds in France and perform at the finals in Paris. This year, for the first time,...
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Animal Welfare vs. Animal Rights
Jessi examines what the term "Animal Lover" means and discusses the difference between Animal Welfare and Animal Rights. Includes questions about elephants and the bullhook, PAWS and the Butte fire, and a ban on exotic animal performances.
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The Three Best Herbs To Fight Depression
Did you know that many medications are derived from plants? For example, salicin from willow bark is the basis for aspirin, and valeric acid from valerian root is chemically modified to make Valproic acid, which psychiatrists use to...
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What Causes Depression? – It's Not Just A Chemical Imbalance
The traditional way we approached the cause and treatment of depression is to see it as a chemical imbalance. That is you have in sufficient amounts of the neurotransmitters serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine and low levels of these...
Brave Wilderness
STUNG by the World's Deadliest Plant!
Brave Crew – an important note about this episode. The plant we feature, known as the Gympie Gympie, is nicknamed 'The Suicide Plant' due to the horrific pain it can cause to those unlucky enough to touch it. The trichomes of the Gympie...
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Anxiety Cells Found in the Brain - How They Did It
Researchers have found the origin of anxiety in the hippocampus of mice. This has far-reaching effects on how we look at and treat anxiety in humans. Neuroscientists at Columbia University Medical Center and University of California San...
Rock 'N Learn
Down by the Station
Here’s a fun transportation song for kids from Rock ’N Learn. Using the traditional “Down by the Station,” we have added other forms of transportation. You’ll find trains, bicycles, planes, ferry boats, subway trains, fire trucks,...
Higgsino Physics
How Atomic Physics Started
Early atomic physics - the development of the first ideas. The first ideas started with Democritus: atom is unsplittable. Then John Dalton Law of constant proportions. Avogadro: Molecular theory of gas laws. Prout's hydrogen weight...
PBS
Can You Really Retire in Your 30s?
The popular “FIRE” movement proclaims that anybody can retire decades earlier if they save like crazy and slash their costs. Is this realistic? Is this something you could achieve?
Debunked
English Phrases That We Get Wrong Everyday!
We've all been saying them, and we've all been wrong!
Debunked
4 Common Movie Myths About Space Debunked | Explosions, Speed, Sound and Asteroids.
Movies take a lot of dramatic license where science is concerned, but who's getting it all wrong on the silver screen. From the g-force you would suffer when achieving lightspeed to what a nuclear bomb would sound like in space we...
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Cherry Tree Rescue
Shane, Sam Spratt, Sid Singh and Mama Polenta find themselves stuck up a tree. What to do?