My son and I watched dozens of videos from The Kid Should See This to find our four favorites:
- Watch how plants explode their seeds.
- If you play soccer or basketball, you’ll love this video on backspin called the Magnus Effect.
- I want a tree like this: a tree with forty kinds of fruit! It’s an edible artwork!
- Can you make a cloud in your MOUTH? You can! Just watch!
How Plants Explode Their Seeds
The photography of plants exploding their seeds is mesmerizing! Nature is amazing! This is the plants’ strategy for spreading its seeds. Check out the squirting cucumber, the violet, and the touch-me-nots!
The Power of Backspin: The Magnus Effect
You have to go to Tasmania to do this experiment yourself and you’ll probably lose your basketball. But look where the basketball lands with and without a bit of backspin! Ask your child to predict what will happen and then prepare to be amazed! And you’ll learn about the Magnus Effect as well.
A Tree That Grows 40 Types of Fruit
It’s art and science. After watching this video, I want a tree like this in my yard and now I’m fascinated with the process of grafting too.
How to Make a Cloud in Your Mouth
My kids learn all about clouds in 5th grade. This is a way to make cloud science fun!
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Barbed Wire Between Us by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Violeta Encarnación
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- ⭐ Starred review from School Library Journal
- Kirkus: The Most Anticipated Children’s Books of Spring 2026
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Barbed Wire Between Us Teacher’s Guide
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- California Eureka Non-Fiction Gold Award
- Junior Library Guild Gold Selection
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner (from National Council for the Social Studies and Children’s Book Council)
The Traveling Taco:
- California Eureka Non-Fiction Silver Award
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner (from National Council for the Social Studies and Children’s Book Council)
- Reading Rockets’ Summer Reading Guide 2025
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We Sing from the Heart: How the Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court
- ALSC Notable Children’s Book
- 2025 Carter G. Woodson Book Award Middle Level Honoree
- Orbis Pictus Recommended Book for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
- 2024 Julia Ward Howe Prize for Children’s Literature Winner
- California Eureka Non-Fiction Award Honor Book
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner (from National Council for the Social Studies and Children’s Book Council)
- Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year 2025
- Recommended Reading for the Social Justice Literature Award 2025 (International Literacy Association)
- Pennsylvania Mountain Laurel Book Award Nominee 2026-27
- Junior Library Guild Gold Selection
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Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World
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- Junior Library Guild Gold selection
- Massachusetts Book Award Long List
- dPICTUS 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023
- Chicago Library’s Best of the Best
- 2023 INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist
- Green Earth Book Award Long List
- Nautilus Silver Winner, Nonfiction Children’s Picture Book
- Sunshine State Young Readers Award Orange Blossom List for Nonfiction
- Imagination Soup’s 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids
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Bank Street College’s The Best Children’s Books of the Year
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These are REALLY cool. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Claire,
Thanks so much!! I’ll tell my son that you like them! It will make him happy. I have him watch a ton of videos and sometimes he doesn’t want to but I tell him that people like his choices!
Thanks for sharing these awesome science videos! So happy to see more folks promoting STEM to children! 🙂
Thank so much Super Science Team! I’m so happy to learn about your great website as well! I’m always looking for easy STEM projects to do with my son in 5th grade.
You are very welcome! FYI – Whenever you’re searching for more ideas to share with your son… We post a lot of links to interesting STEM news and fun science resources on our facebook page. Hope to see you there!
Thanks for the heads up Super Science Team! I’m not on Facebook much but do you have a blog?