What Dinosaurs Left Behind
  • By Melissa Stewart
  • Duration: 0:05:19
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Fossil footprints led two boys to an important discovery.

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The Mixed-up Fish Dance
  • By Lisa Avila
  • Duration: 0:05:30
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Marisa tries to play a different role in the annual dance.

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The Mystery of the Missing Mile-High Cake
  • By Jane L. Daubitz
  • Duration: 0:05:20
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

The scatterbrained baker, Mr. Sippey, bakes his famous cake only to have it go missing. Unable to find it, he goes home and discovers that the cake was for his own surprise...

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Acorn by Acorn
  • By Judy Bridell
  • Duration: 0:02:34
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Scientists study the activities of blue jays realizing that the birds help our planet by planting oak trees.

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

Dr. Jonathan Copeland studies synchronous fireflies.

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Building Beaver Dams
  • By Bryn Fleming
  • Duration: 0:05:55
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

"Human beavers" are scientists and field workers who build "starter dams" to improve damaged stream habitats and encourage beavers to settle there.

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Every Carving Tells a Story
  • By Marty Kaminsky
  • Duration: 0:05:00
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Read how one artist's memories are carved into stories.

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How the Brain Fools the Eye
  • By Carmella Van Vleet
  • Duration: 0:05:37
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Learn about "change blindness"--how we can look at something but not really see it!

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How the Weaverbird Built His Nest
  • By George W. Frame, Ph. D.
  • Duration: 0:04:20
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

How does the male weaverbird make such a perfect nest? By building it over and over again until he gets it right.

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New Windors on Our Minds
  • By C.W. Dingman
  • Duration: 0:04:02
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

New machines can tell us how the brain works.

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