Get ready for Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance’s brand new podcast, Questions Asked by Curious Kids, or QuACK!
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Transcription
Mickenzee: Hey and welcome to Questions Asked by Curious Kids, or QuACK! I’m Mickenzee, I’m an educator at Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance. And that basically means I get to go to schools and community centers and teach kids about all my favorite things in nature, like how turtles can breathe through their butts or the life cycle of a cicada. Of course when kids learn all this cool stuff they have questions, really big questions, and a lot of the time I don’t have an answer for them. I mean, just take a listen to some of these:
Kid 1: Hey, Mickenzee! How can you tell if a mushroom is poisonous or not?
Kid 2: Hey, Mickenzee! Do you know if bird calls adapt to their habitats?
Kid 3: Why are robins’ eggs blue?
Kid 4: Hey, Mickenzee! Why do centipedes have so many legs?
Kid 5: Hey, Mickenzee! Which bird has the longest tail?
Kid 6: Hey, Mickenzee! Do birds ever nest in the winter when there’s snow?
Kid 2: Hey Mickenzee! What’s the second largest bird in Wisconsin?
Mickenzee: Like aren’t these all really good questions? Questions I haven’t ever thought to ask. Questions I would also really like to know the answer to.
Join me each month on QuACK where I gather these big questions about nature from kids and explore the answers with a local expert in short, classroom-friendly episodes! New episodes will be released on the first Tuesday of every month and I can’t wait to learn more with you and I really really hope you like it.
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Audio Editing and Transcription by Mickenzee Okon
Kids’ voices by Henry, Cora, Jay, Theo, and others
Logo design by Carolyn Byers and Kaitlin Svabek
Music: “The Forest and the Trees” by Kevin MacLeod
