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Bridges are amazing works of engineering! https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/bridge/273351 https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/bridge/352881 http://www.themoderntrobadors.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/IMG_07471.jpg photo of Roman Arched Bridge https://www.urbansplatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Golden-gate-bridge-sunset.jpg photo of the Golden Gate Bridge Bridges: From My Side...

The clouded leopard is a secretive cat that lives in Southeast Asia. https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/clouded-leopard http://cloudedleopard.org/about_main VIDEO: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=clouded+leopard+video&docid=608023835752299204&mid=6C7F27E97FEE3CB98FB06C7F27E97FEE3CB98FB0&view=detail&FORM=VIRE Send us listener mail! Send an audio message: anchor.fm/inquisikids-d...

Knights  Join us today as we learn about the brave men who fought as knights during medieval times.   Sources: https://historyofyesterday.com/how-did-squires-become-knights-in-the-medieval-era-e8a10d2f2db7 https://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages/becoming_a_medieval_knight.php Macdonald, Fiona, and Mark Bergin. How to Be a Medieval Knight . National Geographic, 2005. Star, Fleur. Ca...

Fireflies  Join us today as learn about fireflies, a fascinating little bug with a special talent. Sources: https://www.thoughtco.com/fascinating-facts-about-fireflies-1968117 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/facts/fireflies https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Invertebrates/Fireflies https://www.firefly.org/how-you-can-help.html Send us listener ma...

What Happened at Jamestown?  Join us today as we learn about the Jamestown Colony, the first English speaking settlement in the New World. Sources: https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/a-short-history-of-jamestown.htm https://www.history.com/news/jamestown-colony-settlement-facts Send us listener mail! Send an audio message: anchor.fm/inquisikids-daily/message Send an email: podcast@...

Your Five Senses--Taste  Join us today as we finish up our study on your five senses and learn about taste. Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279408/ https://www.kidshealth.org/en/kids/tongue.html Send us listener mail! Send an audio message: anchor.fm/inquisikids-daily/message Send an email: podcast@inquisikids.com

Jane Goodall.  Join us today as we learn about Jane Goodall who worked with chimpanzees in Africa. Sources: https://janegoodall.org.uk/jane-goodall/biography https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jane-Goodall https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/jane-goodall/ Send us listener mail! Send an audio message: anchor.fm/inquisikids-daily/message Send an email: podcast@inquisikids.com

Mummies  Join us today as we learn how the Ancient Egyptians mummified bodies after death. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/summary/Egypt https://www.ducksters.com/history/ancient_egyptian_mummies.php https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/mummy/275979 https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/tutankhamen https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-natron-119865 https://www.perfume.com/ar...

Comets  Join us today as we learn about comets which are orbiting the sun all the time, and sometimes we can see them! Sources: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/overview/?page=0&per_page=40&order=name+asc&search=&condition_1=102%3Aparent_id&condition_2=comet%3Abody_type%3Ailike https://nineplanets.org/comets/ https://www.space.com/19878-hall...

A Dinosaur Named Sue  Join us today as we learn about the most complete T-Rex skeleton ever found, a dinosaur affectionately known as Sue. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sue https://adventuredinosaurs.com/2020/08/01/7-surprising-facts-sue-the-dinosaur/ https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/sue-t-rex Send us listener mail! Send an audio message: anchor.fm/inquisikids-daily/message Send a...

Your Five Senses--Touch  Join us today as we learn all about our sense of touch Sources: https://mocomi.com/sense-of-touch/ https://learning-center.homesciencetools.com/article/skin-touch/ https://www.kidshealth.org/en/kids/skin.html Send us listener mail! Send an audio message: anchor.fm/inquisikids-daily/message Send an email: podcast@inquisikids.com

Who Were the Navajo Code Talkers?  Join us today as we learn about the brave Navajo men who used their secret code and helped the United States during World War II. Sources: https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/Navajo-code-talkers/601078 http://www.american-historama.org/1929-1945-depression-ww2-era/navajo-code-talkers.htm https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/code-talker/624639 Ly...

Your Five Senses--Smell  Join us today as we continue learning about each of your five senses.  Today we learn about the sense of smell. Sources: https://www.kidshealth.org/en/kids/nose.html https://easyscienceforkids.com/whats-that-smell-all-about-your-sense-of-smell/ https://theconversation.com/curious-kids-how-do-we-smell-104772 htthttps://mocomi.com/smell Send us listener mail! Send...

Kangaroos  Join us today as we learn about the most popular Australian marsupial, the kangaroo. Sources: https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/kangaroo/275222 https://kids.kiddle.co/Kangaroo https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/animals/general-animals/kangaroo-facts/ https://kids.kiddle.co/Red_kangaroo Send us listener mail! Send an audio message: anchor.fm/inquisikids-daily/message...

What Do Platelets Do?  Join us today as we learn about a very important part of our blood, the platelet. Sources: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/what-are-platelets-and-why-are-they-important https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/platelet-information.html https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx? ContentTypeID=160&ContentID=36 Send u...

Who Was Peter The Great?  Join us today as we learn about one of the great tzars of Russia, Peter the Great, who modernized the country. Sources: http://www.saint-petersburg.com/royal-family/peter-the-great/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-the-Great/The-nobility Send us listener mail! Send an audio message: anchor.fm/inquisikids-daily/message Send an email: podcast@inquisikids.com

The Boston Tea Party  Join us today as we learn about the Boston Tea Party, which wasn't a party at all. Sources: https://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-boston-tea-party/ https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party Send us listener mail! Send an audio message: anchor.fm/inquisikids-daily/message Send an email: podcast@inquisikids.com

Volcanoes  Join us today as we learn about the three different types of volcanoes. Sources: https://kids.kiddle.co/Volcano#Stratovolcanoes https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/volcano https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Mount-Saint-Helens/276847 https://geology.com/volcanoes/cinder-cones/ https://sciencetrends.com/3-major-types-volcanoes-stratovolcano-cinder-cone-shield/ http...

What Is a Wolverine?  Join us today as we learn about the ferocious and fascinating wolverine. Sources: https://fws.gov/mountain-prairie/es/wolverine.php https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/facts/wolverine https://animalcorner.org/animals/wolverine/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUky21jdYs4 Send us listener mail! Send an audio message: anchor.fm/inquisikids-daily/messa...

Your Five Senses--Hearing  Join us today as we learn about another of your five senses, hearing. Sources: https://www.kidshealth.org/en/kids/ears.html https://www.innerbody.com/anatomy/skeletal/head-neck/bones-ear Send us listener mail! Send an audio message: anchor.fm/inquisikids-daily/message Send an email: podcast@inquisikids.com

Who Was Norman Rockwell?  Join us today as we learn about the popular American artist, Norman Rockwell. Sources: https://www.biography.com/artist/norman-rockwell https://learnodo-newtonic.com/norman-rockwell-famous-paintings Send us listener mail! Send an audio message: anchor.fm/inquisikids-daily/message Send an email: podcast@inquisikids.com

Who Was Georgia O'Keeffe?  Join us today as we learn about one of the most influential American Modernists, Georgia O'Keeffe. Sources: https://collections.okeeffemuseum.org/object/#subquery=gok  art https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/Georgia-OKeeffe/624571 https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Georgia-OKeeffe/276171 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Georgia-OKeeffe Send u...

What Is an Atoll?  Join us today as we learn about a special kind of coral reef, the atoll. Sources: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/atoll/ https://www.coraldigest.org/index.php/Atolls Send us listener mail! Send an audio message: anchor.fm/inquisikids-daily/message Send an email: podcast@inquisikids.com

Your Five Senses--Sight  Join us today as we begin exploring our five senses.  Today we will focus on the sense of sight and learn how our eyes work. Sources: https://www.kidshealth.org/en/kids/eyes.html Send us listener mail! Send an audio message: anchor.fm/inquisikids-daily/message Send an email: podcast@inquisikids.com

The Homestead Act  Join us today as we learn about the Homestead Act which allowed millions of Americans to own their own farms. Sources: https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/homestead-act Send us listener mail! Send an audio message: anchor.fm/inquisikids-daily/message Send an email: podcast@inquisikids.com