Series

Things You Wanna Know

5 episodes

Every title here is a two-minute Cool Facts About rundown from National Geographic Kids, and the catalog holds five of them: cats, monkeys, sharks, snakes and lizards, and roller coasters. Four are animal profiles built on senses and body plans, covering a cat's night vision and righting reflex, a shark's streamlined body and keen senses, the scaly skin reptiles rely on, and the hands and tails monkeys use socially. The fifth trades biology for physics and explains how hills, loops, and gravity produce the feeling of speed. Fact-dense and very short, so they work best as a hook or a five-minute filler with a question attached.

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What Things You Wanna Know covers

5 episodes in the library, tagged for 2nd–6th. Heaviest coverage: Science. Between them they line up with 2 distinct standards across 1 framework.

Episodes per grade

2nd: 5
3rd: 5
4th: 5
5th: 5
6th: 5

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Science: 5

NGSS (Science) 2

4-LS1-1Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
4-PS3-1Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.

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