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2x11
Flight: Flying Animals
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Miguel invites Kathy and Robin to Lincoln Park Airport, where he is taking flying lessons. After a brief discussion of the four forces, Miguel acquaints himself with the plane's .. show full overview
2x12
Flight: Air Resistance
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Miguel, Robin, and Kathy join the crew of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade as they inflate balloons. Robin takes her first parachute jump. FILM INSERT: Air is there. ANIMATION: .. show full overview
2x13
Flight: Lift
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Paco is trying to understand how a paper airplane files. As part of the studio experiment on lift, Kathy shows the Bernoulli principle with a straw and a glass of grape juice. Jackie .. show full overview
2x14
Flight: Thrust
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Miguel has entered himself and Robin in a boomerang-throwing competition. But neither knows how to throw a boomerang properly. They get a demonstration on boomerang flight from a .. show full overview
2x15
Flight: Acceleration
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Kathy brings a telescope to talk about the changing constellations in the night sky. In the process, Kathy discusses Newton's Laws of Motion. Robin visits NORAD as it observes .. show full overview
2x6
Sports: Training Analysis
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Before Miguel can put together a training program for his friends, they spend the day organizing the closet. Miguel and Jackie go to a serious West Point gym drill. Robin discovers how .. show full overview
2x7
Sports: Time, Rate, Measurement
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Robin helps Kathy and Miguel to coordinate their schedule of errands, splitting the duties among themselves to get everything done faster.Robin finds out from a pair of jockeys the .. show full overview
2x8
Sports: Energy Transfer
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Carol Lewis (Carl's brother) and her trainer illustrate the mechanics of the long jump. Kathy witnesses a pole-vaulter in training. Robin discovers a variety of bicycles. Film Insert: .. show full overview
2x9
Sports: Impact Analysis
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Kathy is downstairs, exercising while waiting for Miguel to return. Miguel is with Judy Clarke, who discusses the design of athletic shoes. She leads Miguel to two other researchers, .. show full overview
2x10
Sports: Coordination
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Robin sees two synchronized swimmers in perfect coordination. The Biography segment features a neurologist discussing people's motor skills. A team of high-school boys uses information .. show full overview
2x1
Survival: Breathing
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A computer program introduces the names of the new cast. Robin surprises Miguel and Kathy with a used car, but all three are surprised when the carburetor is faulty. During their ride, .. show full overview
2x2
Survival: Temperature
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Robin goes on a survival trek in the mountains of Wyoming.In Part Two of the New York City Marathon story, Lauren explains the importance of keeping cool.Film insert: warm-blooded vs. .. show full overview
2x3
Survival: Protection
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Miguel, Robin, and Kathy help epidemological detectives in their investigation on a food poisoning case. Jackie searches with schoolkids for jumping frogs. In "The Bloodhound Gang," Vikki attends a séance staged by a fortune-teller.
2x4
Survival: Energy
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Paco attempts to surprise the others by preparing bread–and ends up surprising himself. In The Bloodhound Gang, Vikki senses something afoul at the séance.
2x5
Survival: Teamwork
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Miguel, Robin, and Kathy have a computer game in waiting for a contest. Can they get anything done by splitting the responsibilities? In Denver, Miguel puts a hospital's Flight for .. show full overview
2x16
Babies: The Code of Life
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Paco is trying to find out what DNA is. Not everyone has the complete answer until somebody calls the wrong number repeatedly. Robin is fortunate to talk with one of the biologists who .. show full overview
2x17
Babies: Growth and Development
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Miguel has had it up to his ears with duplicates. He goes to a florist to get the perfect orchid for his mother's birthday. The florist tells him all the orchids in the shop are .. show full overview
2x18
Babies: Behavior
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While Miguel, Robin, and Kathy go off on a picnic, Paco is left to examine Miguel's ants. He then has to scramble for the ants when they get loose. Immediately, Miguel senses that his .. show full overview
2x19
Babies: Colonization
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Robin visits Mount St. Helens two years after its historic 1980 eruption to see where plant life in the area is attempting a comeback. In the weekly studio experiment, Miguel explains .. show full overview
2x20
Babies: Change
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Paco sets up a school report on his walk on the beach. He teams up with a chimpanzee and a biologist who studies animal locomotion. At the university, the biologist shows Paco part of .. show full overview
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Building: Materials
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Jackie gets an up-close look at the Teflon roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Bloodhound Gang is called to investigate "The Case of the Veiled Thief."
2x37
Building: One of a Kind
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Leonardo da Vinci's vision of a spring-driven car is put to the test in the "Olympics of the Mind," where youngsters test ideas. The Bloodhound Gang solves "The Case of the Veiled Thief."
2x38
Building: Standard Parts
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Among the field visits in this program is an automobile assembly line. The Bloodhound Gang gets involved in "The Case of the Bottled Boat."
2x39
Building: Modular
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Paco envisions the concept of modular components. Among the sites visited is a video-games manufacturer. The Bloodhound Gang try to shed light on "The Case of the Bottled Boat." (Concludes in next episode.)
2x40
Building: Communication
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Broadway Video provided production facilities for 3-2-1 Contact for six seasons. In this episode, editors at Broadway Video show their work in assembling a film (later seen in its .. show full overview
2x26
Shapes in Nature
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Miguel and Paco start the week in the back of a pick-up truck, riding through San Diego Wild Animal Park. They see the prehensile tongue of a giraffe up close. A worker explains how .. show full overview
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Shapes and Gravity
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From the San Diego Wild Animal Park, Miguel and Paco observe elephants flipping dust and dirt on their backs. An evolutionary expoert at the Wild Animal Park explains why elephants have .. show full overview
2x28
Shapes: Streamlining
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Miguel and Robin attach a speedometer on a bicycle so they and Paco can see how fast Paco can really ride his bike. Jackie meets with MIT engineers who built a streamlined bicycle, the .. show full overview
2x29
Shapes: Form and Function
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Miguel is chopping wood because he wants to play the violin. He asks Robin to take the wood to Carlene Hutchins, who makes violins, a musical acoustician. She tells how the violin's .. show full overview
2x30
Shapes: Clues
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Robin has her hands full trying to develop pictures in the makeshift darkroom set up in the basement. In the field, Robin gets a first-hand look on how police use fingerprints as .. show full overview
2x31
Water: 3 Phases – Gas, Liquid, Solid
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Robin is ready to ski down a mountain. Miguel and Kathy, who have never skied before, spend their time witnessing a snow-making machine. All three discover a geologist at the .. show full overview
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Water: Medium for Life
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A dry tour of the solar system shows no substantial water on the other planets. Back on Earth, water contains just about all life.Miguel visits the Okefenokee Swamp, hoping to see an .. show full overview
2x33
Water and People
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Miguel helps Robin complete a homework project before heading to a harbor on the Hudson River. He and Kathy are worried that a houseboat may be sinking. A marine biologist tells them .. show full overview
2x34
Water: Distribution
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Miguel discovers a leak in the water pipes and tries valiantly to fix it. Kathy discusses Lake Mead and Hoover Dam, which supply water and electricity for Las Vegas. Robin and Jackie .. show full overview
2x35
Water in the Body
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Paco, Kathy and Robin set up an aquarium to surprise Miguel. Two scientists from different fields lead Robin to study bears in the Minnesota winter. They take samples of bear blood to .. show full overview
2x21
Senses: Taste and Smell
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Miguel, Robin, and Kathy are prepared for a fishing campout. On their way back from fishing, Kathy discovers she has lost the matchbook and ventures out to find it. She finds it, but .. show full overview
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Senses: Sight
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Main Concept: In order for us to see, the eye must convert light energy to electrical energy, which is interpreted by the brain as an image. Robin learns that sight is the dominant sense .. show full overview
2x23
Senses: Hearing
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The kids assemble glasses with varying water amounts for a musical scale. In the process, Paco learns that certain frequencies are beyond the human hearing range. Vikki of The .. show full overview
2x24
Senses: Touch
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Paco surprises everyone with a gecko as his present for Robin's birthday. We meet a neurologist who studies the sense of touch in Brooklyn. In "The Bloodhound Gang," Vikki attends a .. show full overview
2x25
Senses: Special Sensors
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After a close call, Miguel, Robin and Kathy drill themselves (and the basement) in case of fire. The Bloodhound Gang, en masse, breaks down "The Case of the Girl from Outer Space."