Celebrating Ask a Stupid Question Day
Grades: 3 - 12

Experience the Power of Questions by Celebrating Ask a Stupid Question Day

Thank you to everyone who sent us a question. We were able to include 6 questions in the program. Those questions and Educate.Today videos available to find answers to each of them are included below. Plus, we’ve included a few additional questions we received but were not able to include in the program.

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Question 1: Taniyaa asks–Do dogs see differently than humans?
Answer: View the question and answer beginning at the 01:04 mark of the program. To learn more from the entire video excerpted in the program, click here, and to find other videos about dogs and their senses, search by using the keyword “dogs.”

Question 2: Ryan asks–Is it true that dogs flew in space?
Answer: View the question and answer beginning at the 03:56 mark of the program. To learn more from the entire video excerpted in the program, click here.

Question 3: Thomas asks–Who were the buffalo soldiers?
Answer: View the question and answer beginning at the 08:12 mark of the program. To learn more from the entire video excerpted in the program, click here, and to find other videos about buffalo soldiers search by using the keyword “buffalo soldiers.”

Question 4: Nathan asks–Where do the clouds come from?
Answer: View the question and answer beginning at the 10:16 mark of the program. To learn more from the entire videos excerpted in the program, click here and here, and to find other videos about meteorology, check out our “Wondering About Weather” focus area.

Question 5: Leila asks–What is a centrifuge used for?
Answer: View the question and answer beginning at the 12:22 mark of the program. To learn more from the entire video excerpted in the program, click here, and to find other videos about tools used in a medical research laboratory, click here.

Question 6: Matthew asks–How do we know what dinosaurs looked like?
Answer: View the question and answer beginning at the 13:49 mark of the program. To learn more from the entire video excerpted in the program, click here, and to find other videos about dinosaurs, search by using the keyword “dinosaurs.”


A Few Additional Questions We Received:

1. Katie Asked: How are hurricanes formed?
Answer: To learn more about hurricanes, search by using the keyword “hurricanes.

2. Marques Asked: Why are birds able to fly?
Answer: To learn how a bird’s anatomy helps it fly, learn from an ornithologist in this video.

3. Celia Asked: How do dancers memorize their dance moves?
Answer: Find two videos with dancers offering their answers to this question by clicking here and here.

4. Perry Asked: What’s it like to live in a foreign country?
Answer: Living in a foreign country can provide a wide variety of experiences depending on the country, the climate, your age, and all sorts of other factors. For a few first person accounts of what it’s like to live in countries other than the United States, search the Educate.Today website with the keyword “People and Places.”