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Making a compost pile is a simple way to dispose of waste—like leaves, grass clippings, fruit, and vegetable peels—and turns them into healthy food for plants! Cece notices how nice Jane’s flowers are and wants to make a compost pile, too! Jane and Click show their friends how to make compost and you can learn too! What else is needed to help the compost decompose?

Yo helps his father recycle garbage and learns what types of trash go into the recycling bin. Yo learns his fleece vest is made of plastic and that special factories recycle the plastic and melt it down into new things like toys and his favorite fleece vest! Can you guess which trash goes into the blue bins? Yo wants to surprise his mother with a special present–knowing how to recycle!

Yo learns what a composting box is and how it helps recycle scraps of food into soil. Yo is excited to see the Red Wiggler worms have arrived for their composting box! Yo helps his grandfather make the compost bin by mixing shredded paper, dirt, and water together in the bin. Now, the worms are ready for their new home! What will the worms do to help recycle food in the bin?

What kind of insect protects itself with bright colors, warning insect eaters to stay way–a ladybug! Learn about insects and animals that live together in a garden. Interacting together, these living organisms have a lot in common! Some can help a garden grow strong and others can cause a lot of trouble. Raccoons like to eat the seeds and berries while spiders help by eating the pesky insects.

Did you know some birds can grow thousands of feathers? Find out the different jobs feathers have to help a bird fly. Learn the differences between primary feathers and tail feathers in a bird’s flight.

Have you ever seen a flock of geese flying in the sky? Yo and her grandfather spot lots of geese flying South to escape the winter’s snow and ice. Yo is excited to watch the geese begin their long journey home.

Birds are easier to hear than they are to see. If you want to encourage more birds to visit your backyard–learn how to build a bird feeder and a bird's nest! What types of birds will you find? Learn two simple ways to help birds live and to observe them in your own backyard!

Got a pair of old tights, an empty can or a plastic bottle that you plan to throw away? You can upcycle those old things and turn them into new items you can use! Upcycling is recycling in a better way! Learn how to make a decorative pencil holder, a draft dodger to keep the cold out, or turn plastic bottles into bowling pins. What things can you create to reduce the use of plastic and metal?

Animals have unique skills to live, find food or escape becoming a predator’s meal! Animals that live in snowy places have athletic skills like strength need to compete in Winter Olympics sports. The snow leopard can leap 30 feet high and run fast! Seals can glide across the ice on their bellies like athletes competing in tobogganing. What skills do prairie chickens and red-crowned cranes have?

What makes fish great swimmers–and how do they breathe underwater? Different animals use their body in different ways to take in air, food, and water. Learn how fish use gills to take in oxygen from water, much like humans use lungs to breathe in oxygen from the air. Whales, dolphins and sea turtles come up for breath–are they fish? In ocean life, guess which fish have gills and which are not fish!

Did you know a flounder, a type of fish, develops from an egg to a full-grown adult in 2 years? Take a journey through deep waters to see how flounder change and grow to be as much as one foot long.

The Elly award goes to the animal with the best nose! Learn about different animals’ noses and how their noses help them to survive in different ways.

Did you know your teeth are the hardest thing in your body? Your tooth has many parts that protect it and keep it strong. How do cavities form? Learn how brushing and flossing can keep plaque from forming which helps prevent cavities.

Have you ever wondered how to make jam? Follow along with Yo and her mom as they make strawberry jam together. First, Yo and her mother must pick berries from their garden. Can you guess what cooking steps are next? Listen along to learn how to make jam using your favorite fruit berries!

What color are cranberries before they’re harvested? Take a guess as Yo tours a cranberry bog with her grandpa. Find out how cranberries are grown and the special way that they are harvested every year!

Joey loves to visit with his grandparents to help prepare the vegetable garden for planting corn! He helps his grandfather plant corn in the spring and then returns in the summer to harvest and gather the corn. What fun games can Joey play on the farm?

Yo and her mother go outdoors to fill the bird feeders with birdseed. Yo wonders if they should feed wild animals too. What will happen if Yo leaves birdseed out for other animals? Will Yo and her mother decide to feed the other animals?

Surviving in the desert heat can be dangerous–from deadly shifting sands to a lack of food and water, learn how animals like the Dromedary camel uses its eyelids to shield it from swirling sand, how Sandgrouse chicks soak up water from feathers on their fathers belly, and how the kangaroo rat never takes a drink!

Yo and her grandmother to visit the Little Blueberries Organic U-Pick Farm. They need to pick a lot of blueberries so her grandfather can make a special dessert! Can you guess what treat her grandfather is going to make with their favorite fruit?

There’s a chick ready to hatch at The Green Farm Incubator! Yo wonders why it isn't fluffy! Discover with Yo, and her teacher, how chicks are born by using their beaks to break out of their shells.