Science Weekly 2023: The BEST Science of the Year!
Fun Kids Science Weekly
Fun Kids
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🗓️ 30 December 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
It's the end of 2023, and Earth has completed another calendar orbit around the sun. A lot of science has happened in that time! Let us reflect...
In this special edition of Science Weekly, Dan revisits conversations with four brilliant guests from 2023. We have Ted Melville about how he got into rocket building, and his team's journey to the World Space modelling Championships! Amy Meek, founder of Kids Against Plastic, tells us all about her mission to look after the environment! Anna Horleston, Planetary Seismologist speaks all NASA’s InSight Mars Mission – which will help us figure out just what Mars is made of! Last but not least Mike Gunton and Tim Walker from the BBC Natural History Unit who were the big brains behind Prehistoric Planet.
Techno Mum explains how digital cameras work & Microbes Bene and Mal look at the ethical dilemmas behind if we to ever gain x-ray vision! Rockets, Dinosaurs, and all manners of science await in this glorious review of a spectacular year for science. Have yourself a happy new year!
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| 0:00.0 | Ahoy hello explorers thank you so much for being there it's the end of another fantastic science |
| 0:06.6 | field year so let's take a look at the best of 2023 for our Fun Kids Science Weekly. |
| 0:15.0 | My name is Dan. |
| 0:17.0 | This is the show where we explore the universe together |
| 0:20.0 | and we take a look at some of those sneaky bits of science that lurk around that are always hidden. |
| 0:25.5 | We uncover those secrets. |
| 0:28.0 | And this week we will take a listen to some of the best things that we did over the last 12 months, the best |
| 0:33.7 | guests that we chatted to, the most amazing things that we found out. And we'll |
| 0:37.5 | hear from Amy Meek, she is from Kids Against Plastic. You might have heard of those. It's an organization |
| 0:44.6 | that are trying to save the world and they want you to be involved with it and she |
| 0:48.9 | came on to tell us load. I always try to be optimistic when it comes to our planet because for me that's the thing that helps me keep going to try and protect it. |
| 1:00.0 | Also you can hear from two incredible geniuses who help put science on the |
| 1:08.5 | tele not just any science they time travel with Sir David Atten we will catch up with Mike Gunton and Tim Walker |
| 1:15.8 | who worked on Sir David's series prehistoric planet |
| 1:18.8 | We kick off thinking about what dinosaurs are going to be in it, what other animals are going to be in it, where we're going to film. |
| 1:27.0 | We start writing stories based on the fossils that show us which animals were around in which locations. |
| 1:33.7 | We designed the dinosaurs and start using animation to turn those dinosaurs into real |
| 1:39.1 | depictions of what we think they look like. |
| 1:41.3 | It's all coming up in the best of 2023 in the Fun Kids Science Weekly. Now halfway through the year we chatted to someone called Ted Melville who |
| 2:01.0 | was really stayed with me his story at school he helped create the |
| 2:07.4 | first rocket-making club that his school had and at the weekend you might play football, you might go dancing, you might do acting. He joins up with other rocket makers and he went to represent Team G.B, his country in the world space modeling |
| 2:27.9 | championships in Austin, Texas. This was back through the summer and a few of Team GB did very well. They placed in that |
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