The science podcast for curious & creative kids and their families. Peek into the world of real-life scientists, engineers, and experts as they solve problems in their every day jobs. Kids and families are then invited to take on a challenge and solve a problem themselves!
Episode One: How Do You Make Software?Created by: Jennifer Swanson / Jeff Gonyea
Started: June 7th, 2022
Status: Active, 131 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
<a href="https://soundcarrot.com/shows/shows/solve-it-for-kids/page/16/" title="SoundCarrot.com - Children's podcasts"><img src="https://soundcarrot.com/img/sc-sm.png" alt="Listen On SoundCarrot" style="width: 200px; height: auto" /></a>Have you ever wondered how military pilots land helicopters on a planes that are floating on the ocean? Listen to retired Coast Guard helicopter pilot, Elizabeth Booker explain just how difficult it can be. Don’t miss this rocking and rolling episode!
Have you ever wondered how you can make a difference? It doesn’t take a lot of training or experience, it just takes an idea and a determination to succeed. Take a listen to Dr. Marsha Tufft, engineer, as she talks about how she designed an object to help save sea turtles! (and she’s not even a biologist!). You may just learn how you can help, too.
Soar through the stratosphere with a few of our BEST of Flight episodes! You’ll hear from LCDR Becky Shaw (Why Would You Fly into a Hurricane), Norman Black (Why Do Science Experiments Travel By Balloon instead of Jet?), and Nils Larson, NASA’s X-59 test pilot (Why Do Planes Make a Sonic Boom?). You’ll have such fun revisiting these classic clips that you’ll want to go back and listen to the original chats again. Enjoy the flights!
Love to learn about the wonders of engineering and technology? Don’t miss this fabulous episode with snippets from AMAZING engineering!! Dr. Arturo Dominguez discusses (How To Hold the Sun in a Donut), Dr. Anna Michel chats abt (How to Design a Sensor to Learn about the Deep Ocean) and Jim Geffre (How Will We Send Astronauts Back to the Moon). Scientists/engineers from Princeton’s Plasma Physics Lab, WHOI and NASA will take you to the edges of new technology!
Take a deep dive into the ocean with this BEST of Aquatic Animals episode. You’ll get snippets of shows featuring Dr. Amy Apprill (Do Whales Have Germs?), Gretchen Burson (How Do You Train a Shark?) and Dr. Katie Lotterhos (Can You Predict Which Animals will Survive Environmental Change?) If you love these, then go back and listen to the originals.
Enjoy this COOL selection of a few of our BEST of ICE episodes with Dr. Ulyana Horodyskj (How are Glaciers Nature’s Time Machine), Dr. Will Grundy (Why Do We Study Alien Ice?) and Dr. Alan Stern (What is it Like to Fly by Pluto?) If you love these “shorts” go back and listen to the whole episodes here or on our website. Have fun chilling out!
If you’re interested in how scientists are combatting climate change, take a listen to this intriguing and informative episode with geologist Katrin Steinthorsdottir, who is working with a company to tap into the natural carbon-storing process rocks use to help offset the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmopshere. Don’t miss this important episode!
If you love penguins, and birds in general, you’re going to LOVE this episode! We have the awesome Noah Strycker, penguin scientist and birder, on the show talking about how he counts pengiuns in Antarctica. AND he shares his BIG YEAR in Birding. You won’t believe how many species of birds Noah identified in one year. Don’t miss this exciting episode!
Created by: Jennifer Swanson / Jeff Gonyea
Started:
June 7th, 2022
Status: Active, 131 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
When Chloe is sent off to live with her mysterious and eccentric grandmother she learns an unbelievable secret. Grandma Ivy is none other than Mother Nature herself! And Chloe is next in line to assume to the power and responsibility of the job. Can a twelve-year old learn to balance the entire world’s ecosystem while just trying to fit in at her new school? Only Mother Nature knows.
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