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Why Do I Flex My Biceps?

S1 E5
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2007

Adibou learns why the biceps flexes when he folds his arm. The fibers in the muscle twist like an elastic and run out of space, which stretches the skin.

Levels:
Elementary Grade 1 Kindergarten
Subjects:
Science and technology Life Systems Français Programme de la maternelle et du jardin d’enfants Problem Solving and Innovating
Skills:
Self-Directed Learning Collaboration Critical Thinking Problem Solving
Themes:
STEAM
French level:
A2: Waystage Basic User (A1 - A2)
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E1 : Why Does My Heart Beat?

5min
Adibou hears the heart. It makes a lot of noise and he feels like he`s in a rollercoaster.
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E2 : Why Is My Blood Red?

5min
Adibou is trapped in an artery. Robitoc saves him from a terrible white cell.
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E3 : Why Do I Have A Fever?

5min
Adibou has the shivers, muscle aches and a fever, and he wants to know why. Time for an adventure into the human body, starting in the nose, to pick up a virus.
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E4 : How Do I Stay Upright?

5min
Adibou wants to know how how manages to stay upright. Time to discover the spine and the bones in the skeleton.
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E5 : Why Do I Flex My Biceps?

5min
Adibou learns why the biceps flexes when he folds his arm. The fibers in the muscle twist like an elastic and run out of space, which stretches the skin.
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E6 : Why Do I Move?

5min
Adibou learns why he moves, as his bones are ties to muscles by tendons and, when he contracts his muscles, his bones move with them.
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E7 : Why do I have a scab?

5min
Adiboo learns how white blood cells destroy bacteria and how blood coagulates to form crust .
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E8 : Why Do I Get Shivers?

5min
Adibou learns what makes his skin shiver. The cold raises his hair.
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E9 : Why I Need to Wash Myself

5min
Adibou knows he needs to wash daily to rid himself of microbes and used cells. He learns the basics of personal hygiene.
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E10 : Why do I like sweet tastes?

5min
The tongue recognizes sweet tastes , Adiboo addresses the subject matter by exploring different areas of the tongue.
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E11 : Why don't I have blue skin?

5min
Adiboo explores the process of tanning and the different skin colors.
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E12 : Why Am I All Hairy?

5min
A little trip in the ship to observe invisible hair and duvet. Adivou learns that we have hair all over, except Bouzzy the robot, who doesn`t.
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E13 : Why does my hair grow?

5min
Adiboo wonders why does his hair grow? His ship goes above the head and he is now stuck in a real jungle.
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E14 : How Do I See?

5min
How will the ship enter the eye? Adibou and his team cross the lens and go to the retina.
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E15 : Why can't I see in the dark?

5min
Adiboo explores the pupil, but it is very dark and he finds himself in some kind of weird jelly.
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E16 : Why Do I Cry?

5min
Bouzzi is in the lacrymal lake and the tears will sweep him away. Adibou will catch him by going through the nose.
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E17 : Why Do I Hear?

5min
Adibou travels in the ear and discovers the eardrum.
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E18 : Why Am I Nauseous in the Car?

5min
Adibou finds out why he`s nauseous by visiting the inner ear. The brain is confused by the eyes, that see things going by, and the body, that doesn`t move, which creates nausea.
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E19 : Why is My Ear Blocked?

5min
Adibou falls into the Eustachian tube and ends up in the hearing canal, in a soft, yellow substance: cerumen.
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E20 : How Do I Smell Scents?

5min
Adibou discovers the olfactive nerve, which informs the brain about smells and transmits scents.
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E21 : Why Do I Get Boogers?

5min
Adibou visits the nose, discovers hairs and gets stucks in the mucus, a gelatinous liquid. The dust we breathe is stopped by the hair, dries, and becomes boogers.
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E22 : Why Do I Sing?

5min
Adibou learns that vocal chords vibrate, which is how sound is produced, amplified by the mouth and articulated by the lips. That`s how singing happens.
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E23 : Why Does My Tooth Ache?

5min
Adibou learns his teeth ache because of cavities. He has to brush his teeth to shoo out bacteria if he doesn`t want their acid to make holes in his teeth.
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E24 : Why Did I Lose a Tooth?

5min
Adibou learns that baby teeth are pushed out by permanent, bigger, harder teeth growing below them.
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E25 : Why do I sweat?

5min
Adiboo learns he sweats to lower his body temperature. Physical effort accumulates a lot of heat, sweat spreads and evaporates .
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E26 : Why do I get hungry?

5min
Adibou learns that after digestion he has an empty stomach and heis again hungry. He discovers the digestive system.
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E27 : Why do I salivate?

5min
Adiboo learns that saliva helps to swallow what we eat . Saliva initiates digestion and food become soft and slippery so that they pass more easily in the stomach.
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E28 : Why do I burp and fart?

5min
Adiboo learns that farting and burping release air bubbles that he swallows or gaz that are created in the bowels after meals.
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E29 : Why Do I Feel Sick?

5min
On the road to the stomach! Adibou learns that bile dissolves grease and, when we eat too much, the intestines struggles to digest everything, causing a stomach ache.
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E30 : Why do I go wee-wee?

5min
Kidneys filter blood and keep unnecessary wastes. These very wastes travel with water into the bladder. The bladder is emptied while having a wee-wee. This is what Adiboo discovers today.
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E31 : Why do I breathe?

5min
Adiboo breathes in to bring air into the lungs; fresh oxygen goes into the blood to feed the body cells. Adiboo breathes out to get rid of this used oxygen.
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E32 : Why do I get breathless?

5min
When Adiboo runs , he needs more energy, he has to absorb more oxygen, his heart beats faster and his breathing accelerates, which causes shortness of breath.
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E33 : Why do I control my movements?

5min
Adiboo learns that the brain receives information and gives orders thanks to neurons; the messages pass through the body through the nerves and this is how one controls his or her movements.
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E34 : Why do I have pain?

5min
Adiboo finds out there all over his body receptors that are sensitive to pain. These very receptors send alarm signals to the brain.
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E35 : Why Do I Sleep?

5min
Adibou learns that, during his sleep, everything inside slows down, except the brain, who stays in control and gives him dreams many times a night.
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E36 : Why do I have chickenpox?

5min
Adiboo learns that chickenpox is a disease due to a virus that is not harmful but contagious. The skin is covered by itchy rash that one must absolutely not scratch
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E37 : Why do I need shots?

5min
Adiboo must get shots so tha his immune system can protect him against microbes and viruses.
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E38 : Why do I eat everything?

5min
Adibou eats everything because food is used as fuel to the body: carbohydrates, lipids and proteins provides us energy to exercise and to growth.
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E39 : Why do I have green eyes?

5min
Adiboo has green eyes because his chromososmes contain a secret code. His DNA is telling his cells to make green eyes.
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E40 : Why do I have hiccups?

5min
Adiboo has hiccups when his stomach is in full swing
Levels:
Elementary Grade 1 Kindergarten
Subjects:
Science and technology Life Systems Français Programme de la maternelle et du jardin d’enfants Problem Solving and Innovating
Skills:
Self-Directed Learning Collaboration Critical Thinking Problem Solving
Themes:
STEAM
French level:
A2: Waystage Basic User (A1 - A2)