A Cloud of Cicadas
Peace Out Podcast
Chanel Tsang
4.4 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
We’re going underground today to learn more about the life cycle of cicadas! These incredible insects live underground for 17 years before emerging altogether—all 1.5 million of them!
During the first breathing exercise called Backbone Breathing (our kid-friendly version of yogic spinal breathing), we are going to breathe in to fill up our “tummy tanks” and make an imaginary car drive up our spine, or backbone, and breathe out to go back down the backbone road. The goal is to pay more attention to the spine because it helps us breathe better (especially when we fill up our “tummy tank”) and improves our posture, so our chest and shoulders are more open, allowing us to breathe in and out more deeply.
If you are listening with someone else, you can take turns: one person follows along with the directions and breathe while the other traces their spine, paying attention to when they are breathing in (up) and breathing out (down). Rewind the episode to switch and take turns doing the breathing exercise!
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Today’s Themes
Scientific (curriculum connections): insects, cicadas, defence mechanisms, prime numbers,
Social-emotional connections: patience, practice, different types of intelligence
Resources
Cicadas (National Geographic)
10 scintillating facts about cicadas (CBC)
Amazing Cicada Life Cycle (Sir David Attenborough’s Life in the Undergrowth) on YouTube (About 5 min.)
17 Year Periodical Cicadas (Planet Earth, BBC Earth) on YouTube (About 4 min., better for older children)
Why Are Cicadas So Good at Math? (PBS.org) (About 5 min. Good intro to cicadas and their life cycle, with a very brief image at the beginning that some younger children may find initially scary but is meant to be humorous and is explained immediately. Would recommend, it’s very interesting!)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Don't forget to subscribe to PSO on your podcast app. |
| 0:04.9 | If you like what you hear, we'd love it if you left us a review and five stars. |
| 0:10.5 | This will help other kids and families find us and then find their comb too. |
| 0:28.8 | Welcome back to PSO, stories for calming down and relaxation. |
| 0:34.2 | My name is Chanel. |
| 0:36.2 | Today we are burrowing underground to learn more about some very interesting incredible |
| 0:43.4 | insects, cicadas. |
| 0:46.8 | Before we get into the world of cicadas, let's listen to our first kindness story from Raleigh. |
| 0:53.1 | Hi, my name is Raleigh. |
| 0:56.7 | I am seven years old and I'm from Louisville, Colorado. |
| 1:04.3 | My kind of story is once my neighbor helped me when I fell off my bike. |
| 1:12.8 | I called for my mom but she didn't hear me so my neighbor walked me to my mom. |
| 1:21.4 | Thank you Raleigh. |
| 1:22.4 | It's so great to have good kind neighbors, isn't it? |
| 1:26.3 | Raleigh also shared about how her mom helped her feel better when she felt scared one night. |
| 1:33.0 | Here's one more kindness story sent to us from Ella. |
| 1:36.6 | Hi, my name is Ella. |
| 1:38.4 | I am nine years old. |
| 1:40.4 | I am in third grade and I live in Chicago. |
| 1:44.2 | My kindness story is one day at school I was feeling really sad because I was kind of |
| 1:50.8 | mean to my friend and I was crying a little. |
| 1:54.4 | So even though I was really mean to my friend, she came over to me and comforted me because |
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