Episode
Sid the Science Kid: Grandma's Glasses
Overview
Sid tries on Grandma’s glasses, but they make everything look blurry. Sid explores his sense of vision, and discovers that even though Grandma’s glasses make things look blurry to him, they make things look clear to her.
Details
- Series
- Sid the Science Kid
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 2008-09-24
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Grandma's Glasses is Episode 13 in Season 1 of Sid the Science Kid. It aired on 2008-09-24. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 12: What's That Smell?
Sid wakes up to his favorite smell in the world, pancakes. But the yummy scent is quickly taken over by a different smell when baby brother Zeke and his stinky diaper enter Sid’s room. At school, Sid learns how smells travel through the air and arrive inside the nose.
Episode 14: Too Much Noise!
Sid notices that when he covers his ears with his hands, everything sounds quieter. Maybe he has super powers! Sid explores his sense of hearing, and discovers that sounds travel through the air and into our ears. So it turns out Sid doesn’t have super powers, he was just blocking sound waves from entering his ears!
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