episode description
Aubrey, Andre, A.J., and 8-year-old Kid Investigator Jack head to the Curiosity Carnival, where all the festivities—treats and games included—are based on a STEAM mystery. This year, the mystery is, “Why do some things float and others don’t?” Will the answer sink in before the carnival ends?
featured in this episode
meet our kid investigator
Jack H. (he/him)
- from Washington, DC
- 8-years-old
- favorite school subject: reading
meet our expert
Madelyn Leembruggen (she/her)
- PhD Candidate at Harvard University and President and Co-Founder of A World of Women in STEM (WOW STEM)
- fun fact: "A black hole is the most dense object in the universe. If you were to compress the entire Earth to be as dense as a black hole, it would be less than one inch in diameter!"
education standards
next generation science standards
- 5-PS1-3 Matter and Its Interactions: Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.
vocabulary
matter:
anything that has mass and takes up space
gravity:
an invisible force that pulls objects toward each other
density:
the measure of how much mass there is in a particular volume
weight:
the measure of the force of gravity on an object
mass:
the amount of matter an object contains
volume:
the amount of liquid, solid, or gas that can fit inside a 3D shape