Episode guide
Dolphins: Riding the Waves
Dolphins name themselves with whistles and sleep with half a brain at a time. This episode rides alongside the pod through play, echoes, and rest.
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The science, gently
- Each dolphin invents its own signature whistle, a name it keeps for life.
- Dolphins sleep one half of the brain at a time, so they can keep rising to breathe.
- They see through the dark ocean with sound, reading the echoes that come back.
Wonder together
- What would your signature whistle sound like?
- What would it be like to rest half of yourself at a time?
- Who is in your pod?
Tonight's calm-down
You get to do what dolphins cannot: rest both halves at once. Let the left side of you grow heavy, then the right, and sink together below the waves of the day.
Go further together
There's so much more to explore.
The episode is a whole story on its own. But if the wondering keeps going after the audio ends, the Family Guide opens this one all the way up: the same calm voice, turned into something you can do together at the table the next morning.
- Questions written for your child's age, not just their reading level
- One hands-on experiment, simple enough for tonight
- The science words behind it, in plain language
- A printable to color, keep, or fill in
Two versions inside: one for ages 4–6, one for ages 7–10.
Free to read while the library grows.
Listen to this episode.
Tomorrow night
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Ideas inside this one: sound and echoes, rest, finding the way.