Junior Couch Potato Lab
Grade 1-3 Episodes
Ep 41: BURRRing Your Own A/C
This episode will teach us how to create eco-coolers, devices used to cool houses all over the world where access to A/C is not possible.
Ep 42: Let’s Get Instrumental
We have talked previously about sound in other CPL modules, but we have not yet classified artificial or natural sounds! Let’s get instumental.
Ep 43: To Infinity And Beyond
Let’s talk forces. No, not the force in Star Wars or forcing your sibling to watch your favourite show with you. Forces like gravity! Gravity is described in classical mechanics as a force that acts between two objects, pulling them together.
Ep 44: Bugs, Weeds Spray Away
What did you eat today? Have you stopped to think about where that food came from? Farmers execute a branch of science called agriculture, which involves the science or practice of farming.
Ep 45: Soccer Scratch
Scratch is a coding program that can be used to create short animations using code! Code is a language that is understood by our computer. Let’s make a soccer game!
Ep 46: Whodunit?
Forensic science is a branch of science that solves crimes with evidence using biology, chemistry, and physics. Let’s investigate.
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