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SciShow Kids

@scishowkids

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SciShow Kids is one question per episode, about animals, machines or space, asked and answered.

Jessi hosts most of SciShow Kids, talking straight to camera with Squeaks alongside, and Sam turns up now and then. Each episode takes one question from the natural world or from how everyday things work and answers that question, with filmed footage next to the animation, so a good part of what you see is the real thing. There is no running story, so any episode is a place to start, and the tone stays bright throughout.

Analyzed by KidSight

WHAT IT MEANS AT EACH AGE

0–2

Too young

SciShow Kids talks at grown-up speed, and SciShow Kids is an explanation rather than a story, so there is no plot for a two-year-old to hold on to. What is left for a two-year-old is a friendly face and some animal footage.

3–5

A little young

A four-year-old follows the footage in SciShow Kids, and the pace stays even. The explanation sits above a four-year-old, and the explanation is most of each episode. A four-year-old gets the animal and misses why the animal does what it does.

6–8

Good fit

Age seven is where SciShow Kids fits. The words land at a seven-year-old's level, and the explanation is the episode rather than a lesson tacked on at the end. A seven-year-old gets the whole answer, start to finish.

9–10

A little old

SciShow Kids keeps working at age nine, a little outgrown. The explanation stops at the first answer, and a nine-year-old is usually onto the next question by then.

WHAT IT’S ABOUT

Wild animals

How machines work

Space

WHAT IT TEACHES

Nature and animals

How things work

Cause and effect

WHAT TO KNOW

Steady and easygoing

SUMMARY

SciShow Kids is an explanation rather than a story, with almost no plot and very little going on between the characters. The question has to carry the whole episode on its own, and at age seven the question does.