The Flying Scotsman steam train turns 100!
Fun Kids Science Weekly
Fun Kids
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Would you like to join Dan for a quick trip around the solar system? You would? Well, let's GO!
This week, Dan is chatting to Karen Bennett about the famous steam-powered locomotive, The Flying Scotsman! This train celebrates its 100th birthday this year, and Karen is here to tell you everything you need to know about the celebrations and the science.
In Dangerous Dan, you'll learn about a TERRIFYING type of weather that will make the UK seem like a tropical paradise... and discover how conservationists are boosting the population of a rather large frog in Science in the News!
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| 0:00.0 | In this week's episode of Activity Quest, Adam's off to Longleet Safari Park, and |
| 0:04.6 | George is making a special something to help with Safari's too. |
| 0:07.9 | That's Activity Quest, the podcast packed with stuff to do. |
| 0:11.9 | Find it wherever it is you're listening to this. |
| 0:14.1 | Just search Activity Quest, and if you're a fun kid's podcast plus subscriber, you'll |
| 0:18.4 | get it at 3 and early 2. |
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| 0:30.0 | Things are on planet Earth right now. |
| 0:32.8 | Why don't you join in, and we'll take a quick spin around the universe. |
| 0:37.1 | This is The Fun Kids Science Weekly. |
| 0:40.9 | My name's Dan. |
| 0:41.9 | Thank you so much for being there for listening and for following us. |
| 0:45.0 | Every week we come together to have an adventure through the universe to discover all those |
| 0:49.0 | science secrets that are lurking through the solar system. |
| 0:52.5 | This week we'll learn about a very special birthday for one of the most famous steam |
| 0:57.5 | trains on the planet with the rail genius Karen Bennett. |
| 1:01.3 | If you boil a kettle, you'll know what happens when you put the water in the kettle, your heat |
| 1:07.6 | up the water, you get steam that comes out. |
| 1:10.4 | Back in the early days when they first discovered the powers of steam, they realised if you heated |
| 1:15.3 | things up and steam was created, then that could create energy. |
| 1:19.6 | Also we take a trip to the smartest school in the solar system, deep space high, to try |
| 1:24.5 | and figure out how old the Earth is. |
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