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Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
We answer a curious question every single day! Do you have a curious kid who asks you a million questions every day? Curious Kids Every Day is an intentionally slow paced and interactive daily podcast for kids AND their parents! My goal is to make learning fun for the whole family. My name is Josh. I am a dad of 4 who loves to learn and teach. I am grateful for all of the families who make Curious Kids Every Day a part of their daily routine. I have noticed that most children's shows these days…
Episodes
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
How Does a Record Player Work?
How does a tiny needle turn the grooves in a record into music? Follow the vibrations as a cartridge converts them into an electrical signal that is amplified…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
How Do Your Lungs Help You Breathe?
How does air get into your lungs, and what happens once it arrives? Discover how your diaphragm moves air and how tiny air sacs help oxygen reach the rest of…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Does Metal Rust?
Why does metal rust? Learn how iron reacts with oxygen and water and how protective coatings help! Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
What Is DNA?
What is DNA, and how do cells use its instructions to help build and run your body? Learn how genes work and why you look like your parents (and grandparents…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
What Is Poison Ivy?
Poison ivy is one of the most famous plants in North America... mostly because it makes people so itchy! But is it actually poisonous? In this episode, we…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Do Our Teeth Fall Out?
Note to Parents: I tell a personal story from my childhood about my parents leaving a prize under my pillow after I lost my first tooth. I honestly forgot…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
How Does the Moon Change the Earth? (Captain Curious)
More Captain Curious Adventures: CuriousKidsEveryDay.com/CaptainCurious What does the Moon really do for Earth... and how does it affect us every single day?…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Do Trees Have Bark?
In this episode, we explore how outer bark protects trees from damage and water loss, how inner bark transports food, and why different trees have different…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Don't Tattoos Go Away?
Why don't tattoos go away when you wash your skin? Learn how tattoo needles place ink into the dermis, a deeper layer of skin, and how special immune cells…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
What Causes an Earthquake? (Curious Kids Club)
Sign up for the Curious Kids Club: SupportCuriousKids.com In today's episode, we explore how earthquakes happen! You'll discover how energy builds up…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Can't You Put Metal in the Microwave?
Metal objects can sometimes spark in a microwave because electromagnetic waves cause electrical charges to move through the metal, especially around sharp…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
What are Fingerprints?
In today's episode, we're looking closely at the swirls and ridges on your fingertips! Why do we have them, how do they help us, and are they completely unique…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Do Turtles Have Shells?
Why do turtles carry their shells around everywhere they go? In today's episode of Curious Kids Every Day, we explore how a turtle's shell is part of its body…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Is Earth the Only Planet We Can Live On? (Captain Curious)
More Captain Curious Adventures: CuriousKidsEveryDay.com/CaptainCurious Why can we live on Earth... but not on any of the other planets? In this Captain…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
How Did People Make Maps Before Satellites?
Before satellites, mapmakers measured distances and angles on the ground and used observations of the sky to determine where places were. Those measurements…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Does Garbage Smell So Bad?
Why can an old bag of trash smell so bad? Learn how microorganisms break down food waste and how tiny odor molecules travel through the air to your nose…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
How Does a Washing Machine Clean Clothes?
How does a washing machine get dirt out of your clothes? Learn how detergent, movement, rinsing, and the spin cycle work together to clean a load of laundry…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
How Do We Know If Food Is Safe to Eat?
This episode explains how germs can get into food and how cleaning, separation, cooking, and refrigeration help keep food safe. It also explains why a food…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
How Do Tall Buildings Not Fall Down?
In today's episode, we explore how skyscrapers and other tall buildings stay standing without tipping over, even when strong winds blow or storms roll through…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Do Oceans Have Waves?
In today's episode, we explore why the ocean is never truly flat. From wind that transfers energy into the sea, to tides caused by the Moon and Sun, to special…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Is Venus the Hottest Planet? (Captain Curious)
More Captain Curious Adventures: CuriousKidsEveryDay.com/CaptainCurious Venus might look like a glowing pearl from far away, but up close it's a wild…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Does Cutting Onions Make You Cry?
Cutting an onion breaks open its cells and starts chemical reactions that produce an irritating vapor called syn-propanethial S-oxide. When that vapor reaches…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
How Do Electric Bikes Work?
How does an electric bike know when to help you pedal? Learn how batteries, motors, and sensors work together to give riders an extra boost. Curious Kids Every…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
How Do You Make Water? (Curious Kids Club)
Sign up for the Curious Kids Club: SupportCuriousKids.com Can you actually make your own water? Today, we're diving into what water is made of, how dangerous…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Are Armpits So Ticklish?
Why are armpits so ticklish? Learn how touch signals travel to the brain, why it is difficult to tickle yourself, and what researchers still don’t know about…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
How Do Airplanes Fly?
How does a huge airplane lift off and soar through the sky? In today's episode of Curious Kids Every Day, we explore the science of flight... from the engines…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Is a Cactus So Sharp?
In today's episode, we explore why cacti are so sharp and how those prickly spines help them survive in hot, dry deserts. Curious Kids Every Day is a daily…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why is a Day on Mercury Longer than a Year? (Captain Curious)
More Captain Curious Adventures: CuriousKidsEveryDay.com/CaptainCurious Did you know a single day on Mercury lasts longer than its whole year? In this episode…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
How Long Does It Take to Get to Mars?
A trip from Earth to Mars usually takes about six to nine months using an efficient route. This episode explains Mars launch windows and how NASA is preparing…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Don't Birds Get Shocked on Power Lines?
Why can birds sit on power lines without getting shocked? Today, we learn how voltage differences and electric current explain why a bird can usually perch…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
What Is Time Dilation?
Time dilation causes clocks to measure slightly different amounts of elapsed time depending on motion and gravity. Today, we learn how this effect has been…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Do Veins Look Blue?
Human blood is always red, even when veins look blue through the skin. Today we learn how light interacts with skin and blood to create the blue or greenish…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Do Your Muscles Get Sore?
Why do our muscles sometimes hurt after exercise? Today we learn how unfamiliar or intense activity can cause tiny amounts of damage in muscle tissue, leading…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Do We Sneeze?
Why do we sneeze? Learn how sneezing is a reflex that helps clear irritants from your nose and airways. Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Can You Fly through the Sun? (Captain Curious)
More Captain Curious Adventures: CuriousKidsEveryDay.com/CaptainCurious What would happen if you tried to fly a rocket ship through the sun? In this…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Are Flowers Different Colors?
Flowers get many of their colors from pigments in their petals, including carotenoids and anthocyanins. We learn how a plant’s genes help control which…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
What Is the Strongest Insect in the World?
The horned dung beetle Onthophagus taurus can pull more than 1,100 times its own body weight! Today we learn how researchers measure relative strength and why…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Are Apples Different Colors? (Curious Kids Club)
Sign up for the Curious Kids Club: SupportCuriousKids.com In today's episode, we explore why some apples are green and some are red and why they taste…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Do Traffic Jams Happen?
Learn how road capacity, bottlenecks, and braking waves can turn cars into stop-and-go traffic. We also explain why some traffic jams seem to appear even when…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Do Cats and Dogs Have Whiskers?
In this episode, we learn that an animal's whiskers help sense touch, nearby objects, tiny air movements, and the space around their faces! Curious Kids Every…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
What Is the Biggest Fish?
In this episode, we learn about the biggest fish on Earth... THE WHALE SHARK! Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
How Do Car Airbags Work?
How does a car know when to deploy an airbag? Today we learn how crash sensors detect serious impacts and how an inflator fills a hidden airbag with gas in a…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
What Are Lasers and How Do They Work?
Learn what a laser is and how its unusually organized light can form a narrow, concentrated beam! Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Do Cats Always Land on Their Feet?
Cats use a righting reflex to turn their bodies while falling so they can often land on their feet. Their inner-ear balance system and flexible spine help them…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
How Do Helicopters Fly?
Helicopters fly using spinning rotor blades that create lift by moving air downward. Today, we learn how pilots change the blades to climb, hover, move in…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Who Is the Fastest Human?
Who is the fastest human, and how fast can a person actually run? This episode looks at Usain Bolt’s 100-meter world record and why a short sprint is so…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
What Is a Hurricane?
In today's episode, we talk about the “recipe” a hurricane needs to form and why the storm begins to spin! Plus, we discuss why hurricanes can only form in…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Which Dinosaur Was the Biggest?
In today’s episode, we explore the biggest dinosaur ever discovered! We learn about the Argentinosaurus, what a sauropod is, and how fossils help scientists…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
How Do Clouds Stay Up in the Sky?
Clouds are made of tiny water droplets or ice crystals that fall extremely slowly because of their small size and air resistance. Today we learn how rising air…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Is the Ocean Salty?
Ocean water contains dissolved salts that come mainly from minerals in rocks carried to the sea by rivers. This episode explains how those minerals reach the…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
How Do Snails Get Their Shells?
Snails begin forming their shells before they hatch. Today we learn how tissue (called "the mantle") adds proteins and calcium carbonate to the shell as the…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
What Causes Cavities in Your Teeth? (Curious Kids Club)
Sign up for the Curious Kids Club: SupportCuriousKids.com Have you ever wondered why we actually need to brush our teeth? In this episode, we explain what's…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
What Is an Eclipse?
What causes solar and lunar eclipses, and why do they only happen at certain times? Today we learn all about eclipses! Curious Kids Every Day is a daily…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
How Do Fireflies Glow?
Today we're chasing down the mystery of how fireflies glow and the reasons they light up! You'll learn about bioluminescence, cold light, and the amazing…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
How Do Bees Make Honey?
Today we learn the sweet science behind how bees make honey, and we discover just how much flying it takes to make a single jar. Curious Kids Every Day is a…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Do Beavers Build Dams?
Today we learn how beavers use their teeth and front paws to build dams and how the ponds can change wetland habitats! Curious Kids Every Day is a daily…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Do You Sink in Quicksand?
Quicksand forms when loose sand becomes saturated with water and loses enough strength to support weight. Today we learn why people can become trapped in it…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
How Do Woodpeckers Keep from Hurting Their Heads?
Woodpeckers withstand repeated pecking because their impacts are extremely brief and their small brains experience lower pressure changes than a much larger…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
How Do Suction Cups Stick to Things?
Suction cups stick when pressing them against a smooth surface lowers the air pressure beneath the cup. Higher air pressure outside the cup pushes it firmly…
- Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast
Why Don't Pets Get Sick When We Get Sick?
On today's episode, we learn that many viruses can infect only certain kinds of hosts because they need compatible cells and must overcome that host's…