Introducing: REACH A Space Podcast for Kids

Unspookable

Nate DuFort

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week Unspookable presents REACH: A Space Podcast for Kids a weekly, family friendly exploration of our galaxy (and beyond!) with hosts Brian Holden and Meredith Stepien. Built for kids and based on questions from kids, REACH educates with entertaining segments, fun at-home experiments, and interviews with subject matter experts & thought partners from leading institutions like the Adler Planetarium, Cosmosphere, and more. Subscribe today, and get knowledge...within your Reach. A co-production between Soundsington Media and Sandy Marshall. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get podcasts. On the first episode of REACH Brian and Meredith ask the questions "What IS space?," "Is Pluto a planet?," and more before we are joined by an expert from Adler Planetarium and a very special guest on a segment entitled "Did You Know...?" This week's Activities: “Life of the Pleiades” movie from AdlerSVL and todays guest Aaron Geller Adler Planetarium's "Aquarius Project” interactive website Online interactive about exoplanets and the future of our Solar System Hosts: Brian Holden and Meredith Stepien Written by: Sandy Marshall with Nate DuFort, Meredith Stepien and Brian Holden. Co-Created, Produced by: Nate DuFort and Sandy Marshall Edited by: Nate DuFort Music composed by: Jesse Case Logo by: Steven Lyons Thank you to Aaron Geller, Astronomer at the Adler Planetarium and Northwestern University. For more information on Aaron’s work, please visit his website. And don't forget to check out his recommended website www.zooniverse.com Planet Earth was played by Dania Ramos, the series creator and head writer of Timestorm by Cocotazo Media and TRAX from PRX . Timestorm follows the time traveling Ventura Twins on a mission to preserve their Puerto Rican heritage. Check it out at www.cocotazomedia.com or wherever you get your podcasts. And special thanks this week to our REACH learning community Blythe and Bella Do you have a space related question that we didn’t get to? Well, next week we start a new bi-weekly segment entitled “Reaching Out” where we’ll be answering YOUR questions. Just get your parents permission and give us a call at 312-248-3402 (or an email at [email protected]) and leave us a message with your first name, where you're from and your question for a chance to be featured in an upcoming episode. You can find REACH on Twitter and Instagram or at http://www.ReachThePodcast.com REACH: A Space Podcast for Kids is a production of Soundsington Media committed to making quality programing for young audiences and the young at heart. To find out more go to http://www.soundsingtonmedia.com

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0:00.0	Hi, Elise here, and this week we are excited to give you a listen to the latest from
0:04.8	Soundington Media. Reach, a space podcast for kids. If you like what you hear, make sure to
0:10.9	subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
0:13.2	Soundington Media.
0:19.1	Hey Brian, what is space?
0:24.0	Good question, Meredith.
0:26.0	You know, I've always wondered what's up there in the night sky.
0:30.0	Yeah, and also, is Pluto a planet?
0:34.0	Today on Reach, we'll answer these questions and more
0:37.0	when we talk to a very special guest whose job it is to study astronomical objects.
0:42.0	And who knows, we might even get a chance to... to study astronomical objects.
0:42.8	And who knows?
0:43.8	We might even get a chance to speak with our very own home planet.
0:47.6	I'm Brian Holden.
0:49.1	And I'm Meredith Steppian.
0:50.7	And this is Reach, a space podcast for kids.
1:14.8	We're going to touch on so many exciting topics this season,
1:17.7	from answering questions like, whatever happened to Pluto,
1:20.8	to how do you become an astronaut, and even some of the more important questions like
1:25.3	how do you actually live in space and what are the ethics of space exploration and
1:30.7	if we're going to be talking about space on this show, first we need to know what space is.
1:37.0	So, we asked some of our friends to help by asking the simple question,
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