Squeaks and Jessi are spending the afternoon playing "Guess That Animal" and learning about some of their favorites!

Sam the bat would love to visit Mars one day, but he's going to need more than a few sandwiches if he's going to stay for long.<br/>

Welcome back to the Fort! There's always a lot going on around here, so feel free to take a look around, say hello to all of our friends, and have fun watching some of their favorite videos! See you again soon!

Squeaks and Mister Brown are learning about senses! Did you know that animals that have whiskers can use them to sense things?



First Grade Next Generation Science
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Glass is really cool, but where does it come from? Jessi and Squeaks have a pretty sweet activity to show you how glass is made



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Spring is almost here, and that means daffodils are blooming around the fort. But how do these flowers survive the long cold winters?



Second Grade Next Generation Science

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Sam the Bat noticed that some stars are different colors, so Mister Brown teaches him about what colors stars can be, and what all the colors mean!



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Squeaks is very bored, so he shows Mister Brown some of his favorite rainy day experiments!

It's spring where Jessi and Squeaks live, and with the spring comes a really cool part of our planet's journey around the sun: the spring equinox!

Jessi and Squeaks are thinking of visiting the redwoods, the tallest trees in the world, but there's lots for them to learn before they make their trip! First Grade Next Generation Science Standards Disciplinary Core Idea: LS1.A:...

Mister Brown and Squeaks decide to design a solar oven, so they can cook their lunch while they play outside!

Squeaks built a pretend time machine, and he and Mister Brown use their imaginations to travel back in time to learn all about the very first living thing!



Second Grade Next Generation Science
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Squeaks wants to know more about the biggest flower in the world! So Mister Brown teaches him all about this stinky, weird plant - called Rafflesia arnoldii!



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There are all sorts of flying birds, but some of the world's biggest are ones that stick to the ground, like the awesome ostrich!

Composting is a way to turn scraps of food you aren't going to eat anymore into healthy soil for your garden! But how does food turn in to dirt?! Mister Brown and Squeaks take a trip to SoilCycle, a place that makes compost in...

Rockets are super amazing, but how do we get something that weighs as much as 100 elephants all the way into space?

Jessi and Squeaks found a branch growing what looked like white hair! So they brought the branch back to the Fort to run some tests and found out that it isn't hair at all... it's ice!



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Did you know there's a way to make art using the light from the sun? It's called a cyanotype, and Mister Brown is going to tell you all about how they work, and how to make your own!

Join Jessi and Squeaks as they talk about some things you can do to make the earth a better place!

It's snowing and Mister Brown needs to go put some salt on the Fort's front steps. But Squeaks wants to know, why do we put salt on icy sidewalks?



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Mister Brown and Squeaks are here to teach you all about the compass - and they will even help you make your own!



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Bill and Webb want to reach a button that is really high up on the wall, so Mister Brown teaches them how to use engineering and teamwork to make a high up button pusher!



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Jessi and Squeaks grab a snack and learn all about why boiling eggs makes them hard!



Second Grade Next Generation Science

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Squeaks and Mister Brown learn all about echolocation, and how animals use it to sense things! First Grade Next Generation Science Standards Crosscutting Concept: Structure and Function: The way an object is shaped or structured...