Do earthworms have eyes?
But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids
Vermont Public
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Come along to learn all about the wriggling worms that live in the dirt beneath your feet. Earthworms are everywhere, and there are many species of worms yet to be discovered. How do worms communicate? Why do worms have slime? Why do worms come out when it rains? Answers to all of your worm questions with earthworm detective Sam James. Plus, we learn about worm composting with a kid who’s in charge of her family’s food scraps!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Educators, do you want to help your students learn more about what's going on in the world outside your classroom? |
| 0:08.0 | Why do leaves change colors in the fall? |
| 0:12.0 | Why do animals hibernate. |
| 0:14.0 | How do birds know when to migrate? |
| 0:17.0 | Check out But Why Adventures. |
| 0:19.0 | Our series, Northeast Nature, |
| 0:21.0 | explores the science of what's on the landscape each month. |
| 0:25.0 | Learn more about plants, animals, and changing seasons in our series for educators and students. |
| 0:31.0 | If you want to get But Why for your classroom or home study, sign up for But |
| 0:35.5 | Wight Adventures, Northeast Nature. We'll send you monthly videos and activity guides for students. |
| 0:41.9 | It's free and you can find out more and sign up at but |
| 0:45.3 | why kids.org slash nature. The This is, but why, a podcast for Curious Kids from Vermont Public. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm Jane Lindholm. |
| 1:16.5 | On this show, we take questions from Curious Kids All Over the World on any topic you can think to be curious about and we find cool people who can help |
| 1:26.1 | us get the answers. |
| 1:28.1 | Today we're going to talk about something that I bet some of you find really interesting and exciting, and some of you might feel a little |
| 1:36.8 | less enthusiastic about. Some of you probably enjoy not just looking at the subject of our conversation, but actually touching these things as well. |
| 1:47.0 | And some of you would rather do almost anything than touch one of these. |
| 1:52.0 | Do you have any guesses of what we're going to be discussing today? |
| 1:55.4 | Let me give you a better hint. We're going to be talking about animals, but these animals |
| 2:00.0 | don't have any legs or any eyes or any tongues or any ears. They do have little |
| 2:06.8 | hairs but you can't really see them unless you've got a microscope and you're |
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