"Sid the Science Kid" Grandma's Glasses (TV Episode 2008)
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Sid tries on Grandma's glasses, but they make everything look blurry. Sid explores his sense of vision, and discovers that even though Grandma's glasses make things look blurry to him, they ... Read allSid tries on Grandma's glasses, but they make everything look blurry. Sid explores his sense of vision, and discovers that even though Grandma's glasses make things look blurry to him, they make things look clear to her.Sid tries on Grandma's glasses, but they make everything look blurry. Sid explores his sense of vision, and discovers that even though Grandma's glasses make things look blurry to him, they make things look clear to her.
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Directors
Allan Trautman
Camilla Calamandrei(live director)
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Will Shepard
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Julianne Buescher(voice)
John Munro Cameron
Alice Dinnean(voice)
Directors
Allan Trautman
Camilla Calamandrei(live director)
Writer
Will Shepard
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Julianne Buescher(voice)
John Munro Cameron
Alice Dinnean(voice)
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May
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Donna Kimball
Susie
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Drew Massey
Mia Ella Mimica
Victor Yerrid
Gerald…
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None Sid wants to find out how rolie polies move! When Sid the Science Kid finds rolie polies in the yard, he wonders how these bugs move around. They’re too small for him to see how. He explores how other animals move to see if rolie polies move the same way. Snakes slide from side to side and fish use their fins, but how do rolie polies move? Do you know? Read and play along in this interactive story with Sid to find out. show full description Show Short Description
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While exploring in his yard, Sid finds two small bugs. “Hey there, rolie polies,” he says as he scoops them up. “Boy, you sure are small! Look! This one is rolled up into a ball, but that one is moving around. How are you doing that, little rolie polie?” “Mom, look! I found two rolie polies in the yard! But they’re so small it’s hard to tell how they move.” “That’s a good question, Sid. Let’s see what we can find out about how animals move on the computer. Here are some fish. They use their fins to move through the water. Snakes slide their bodies back and forth to move. And crabs use their claws to walk along the sand.” But Sid wants to know, “How do rolie polies move?” Mom suggests that Sid take his investigation to school. At school, Sid shows Gabriela, May, and Gerald his rolie polies. “Hi rolie polies!” says May. “Cool!” says Gabriela, checking out the bugs. “Wow! Wow! Wow! Look at ’em go! How do you think they move like that?” “That’s what I want to know!” “Teacher Susie, we have a question. How do rolie polies move?” “That’s a great question. Well, scientists, let’s think. Think of an animal you know, and then tell me how it moves.” “A cat is an animal! And cats have four legs for moving!” “A bird is an animal, and birds move by fluttering their wings to fly, like this!” “A rabbit is an animal! And rabbits jump. Watch me do it! Jump! Jump! Jump! That’s moving!” Everyone laughs. “A rolie polie is an animal!” Sid says when it’s his turn. “I see that rolie polies can move. But they’re too small. I can’t see how they move.” Gerald has an idea. “What if we invent a machine that makes things look bigger! Then we could see how rolie polies move!” “Well, Gerald, there’s already a science tool that does that. Does anyone know what it is?” They shake their heads no. “Is everyone ready to see a science tool that makes things look bigger?” Teacher Susie asks. “YES!” everyone shouts. “To the Super Fab Lab!” “Investigate! Explore! Discover!” “OK, here we go. The science tool that makes things bigger is . . . a magnifying glass!” “Whoa, cool!” Everyone takes a magnifying glass and looks through it. Using the magnifying glass makes really, really small things look REALLY, REALLY BIG. At last! Sid can get his answer. “Okay, magnifying glass. Do your thing!” Sid observes the bugs. “Wow! A rolie polie has two eyes, two loooong antennae, and look what else I can see! It has lots of little legs! Rolie polies have lots of little legs! Lots of little legs? Lots of little legs! That’s it! Rolie polies have lots of little legs! That’s how they move!” Just then, the rolie polie rolls into a ball, which makes Sid laugh. “When you do that, I can’t see your legs at all!” “OK, scientists! Draw your observations in your journals. What do things look like when they’re magnified?” After school Grandma picks Sid and Gabriela up. “Back seat driving with Grandma!” Sid sings, and Gabriela laughs. “So, tell me what you learned in school today!” Grandma asks. “Well, I wanted to know how rolie polies move, but they were too small for me to see,” Sid says. “So Teacher Susie gave us magnifying glasses.” “And I used my magnifying glass to see that rolie polies have lots of little legs. That’s how they move!” “Great work, scientists.” Grandma says proudly. “Maybe you can do some more magnification at home to see how other things move.” At home, everyone heads to the backyard. “Let’s investigate!” “I’m going to use my legs and move backwards to my chair,” says Grandma laughing. Sid and Gabriela look around the yard. “A butterfly! Look! It’s using its wings to fly.” Sid and Gabriela follow the butterfly to watch it land. Then Sid notices a caterpillar on the leaf near the butterfly. “A caterpillar! I wonder how that caterpillar moves.” Sid pulls out his magnifying glass to look at it. “A caterpillar has lots of legs, even more than a rolie polie! That’s how it moves.” Sid takes one last look at his rolie polies. He uses the magnifying glass to count their legs. “Fourteen,” he confirms. With the investigation complete, Sid lets the rolie polies go. “Goodbye rolie polies! Use those legs to move back home!”
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It's out of the question that a toddler who can't speak understands our jokes. But what then makes babies giggle? Correspondent BBC Future claims that answering this question could shed light on how our brains work.
Why do babies laugh? It may seem that the search for an answer to this topic will be just entertainment for scientists, but Caspar Addiman has a serious scientific reason.
He is far from the first person to think of this question. The outstanding English naturalist Charles Darwin studied the laughter of his infant son, and according to the theory of the father of modern psychology, the Austrian Sigmund Freud, a person laughs when he feels superior.
It gives us pleasure to see another person get into trouble. An example would be cheap farce, crude humor, lapses and gaffes - because we are not in the place of another.
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Jean Piaget, the founder of genetic psychology, believed that the study of infants' laughter could lead to an understanding of their thinking.
After all, if you're laughing, you must understand humor to some extent - a good joke balances on the verge of complete, confusing surprise and at the same time boring predictability.
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Piaget logically suggested that studying the laughter of babies would help to understand how children understand the world. He made this suggestion at 1940s, but so far no one has carefully tested his idea.
Although some very famous scientists have been involved in this research, modern psychology continues to neglect this topic.
Addiman, an associate at the University of London, decided to rectify the situation. He believes that by studying laughter, one can determine exactly how children understand the world around them.
He conducted the world's largest study of what babies laugh at in detail and presented his findings at an international conference last year for the first time.
On his website, Addiman surveyed more than 1,000 parents around the world, asking them when, where and why their children laugh.
The results of the study - like the topic itself - are very touching. The first time a baby smiles is at about six weeks, the first laugh is at three and a half months (although some have not laughed three times longer, so don't worry if yours hasn't giggled yet).
Babies almost always laugh when you play peek-a-boo with them, and, of course, absolutely everyone answered in the questionnaire that children laugh when you tickle them.
The most important thing, according to the results of the survey, it became clear that children laugh in the company of other people or in response to an attempt to make them laugh by action.
Just the physical sensation of being tickled is not enough. It is not enough just to see when something suddenly disappears and appears. It's funny only when an adult does all this for a baby.
This shows that long before babies can walk or talk, they are already responsive to communication.
If you tickle a baby, he will laugh precisely because you are doing it, and not just because he is tickled.
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Young children are very aware of being fooled around.
What's more, babies don't laugh when someone trips and falls. It is much more likely that they laugh when they themselves fall, and not someone else. They laugh when they are in the company of happy people, and not in the company of sad or unpleasantly surprised people. Based on these results, Freud's theory (which, however, was developed on the basis of clinical interviews of adult patients, and not on a rigorous, well-conducted study of real children) looks completely wrong.
Although parents report that male babies laugh slightly more often than girls, both mom and dad seem equally funny to both.
Addiman continues to collect data and hopes his results will help show how a child begins to understand the world around him: how surprise gives way to anticipation as the ability to recognize and remember objects develops.
They’re too small for him to see how. He explores how other animals move to see if rolie polies move the same way. Snakes slide from side to side and fish use their fins, but how do rolie polies move? Do you know? Read and play along in this interactive story with Sid to find out. show full description Show Short Description 
How do rolie polies move?” “That’s a great question. Well, scientists, let’s think. Think of an animal you know, and then tell me how it moves.” “A cat is an animal! And cats have four legs for moving!” “A bird is an animal, and birds move by fluttering their wings to fly, like this!” “A rabbit is an animal! And rabbits jump. Watch me do it! Jump! Jump! Jump! That’s moving!” Everyone laughs. “A rolie polie is an animal!” Sid says when it’s his turn. “I see that rolie polies can move. But they’re too small. I can’t see how they move.” Gerald has an idea. “What if we invent a machine that makes things look bigger! Then we could see how rolie polies move!” “Well, Gerald, there’s already a science tool that does that. Does anyone know what it is?” They shake their heads no. “Is everyone ready to see a science tool that makes things look bigger?” Teacher Susie asks. “YES!” everyone shouts. “To the Super Fab Lab!” “Investigate! Explore! Discover!” “OK, here we go. The science tool that makes things bigger is .
. . a magnifying glass!” “Whoa, cool!” Everyone takes a magnifying glass and looks through it. Using the magnifying glass makes really, really small things look REALLY, REALLY BIG. At last! Sid can get his answer. “Okay, magnifying glass. Do your thing!” Sid observes the bugs. “Wow! A rolie polie has two eyes, two loooong antennae, and look what else I can see! It has lots of little legs! Rolie polies have lots of little legs! Lots of little legs? Lots of little legs! That’s it! Rolie polies have lots of little legs! That’s how they move!” Just then, the rolie polie rolls into a ball, which makes Sid laugh. “When you do that, I can’t see your legs at all!” “OK, scientists! Draw your observations in your journals. What do things look like when they’re magnified?” After school Grandma picks Sid and Gabriela up. “Back seat driving with Grandma!” Sid sings, and Gabriela laughs. “So, tell me what you learned in school today!” Grandma asks. “Well, I wanted to know how rolie polies move, but they were too small for me to see,” Sid says.
“So Teacher Susie gave us magnifying glasses.” “And I used my magnifying glass to see that rolie polies have lots of little legs. That’s how they move!” “Great work, scientists.” Grandma says proudly. “Maybe you can do some more magnification at home to see how other things move.” At home, everyone heads to the backyard. “Let’s investigate!” “I’m going to use my legs and move backwards to my chair,” says Grandma laughing. Sid and Gabriela look around the yard. “A butterfly! Look! It’s using its wings to fly.” Sid and Gabriela follow the butterfly to watch it land. Then Sid notices a caterpillar on the leaf near the butterfly. “A caterpillar! I wonder how that caterpillar moves.” Sid pulls out his magnifying glass to look at it. “A caterpillar has lots of legs, even more than a rolie polie! That’s how it moves.” Sid takes one last look at his rolie polies. He uses the magnifying glass to count their legs. “Fourteen,” he confirms. With the investigation complete, Sid lets the rolie polies go.
“Goodbye rolie polies! Use those legs to move back home!”
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The first time a baby smiles is at about six weeks, the first laugh is at three and a half months (although some have not laughed three times longer, so don't worry if yours hasn't giggled yet). 
