2000 Year Old Homework!
  • By Joli Allen
  • Duration: 0:05:26
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Scientists discuss the importance of Ancient Egyptian papyrus discoveries.

A Chipmunk's Home
  • By Janice Marie Scully
  • Duration: 0:01:29
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Don't be tripped up by these rodents that live in shallow burrows sometimes under sidewalks.

A Slick Little Robot
  • By Harry T. Roman
  • Duration: 0:05:19
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

This robot was designed to clean and inspect gigantic oil tanks.

All Together Now Fireflies!
  • By Anita Sitarski
  • Duration: 0:05:17
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Dr. Jonathan Copeland studies synchronous fireflies.

Baboons Mean Mischief
  • By Cecil Dzwowa
  • Duration: 0:06:11
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Cecil writes about the Lion and Cheetah Park in Africa where a troop of baboons led by a dominant male going by the name of Mango wreaks havoc among visitors and tourists.

Bird's Nest Safari
  • By Judyann Grant
  • Duration: 0:03:56
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Learn how different birds make their nests.

Blind Ambition
  • By Rachelle Burk
  • Duration: 0:04:38
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Find out how this blind skier zips down the mountain.

Bringing Up Baby Foxes
  • By L.E. Carmichael, Ph.D.
  • Duration: 0:05:33
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

A scientists helps arctic-fox researchers discover that some foxes share dens and some mother foxes mate with more than one male fox to give their offspring the highest chance of...

Building a Better Shortcut
  • By Elizabeth Thwing
  • Duration: 0:05:12
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Ben learns how a cruise ship passes through the Panama Canal using a water elevator called a lock.

Champions of Hibernation
  • By Alison Pearce Stevens, Ph.D.
  • Duration: 0:03:51
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

This article is about fat dormice or "seven sleepers" animals related to squirrels. They hibernate for seven or eight months of the year slowing their breathing and heart rates to...

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