The No Sweat Nature Study Podcast

Sound travels about four times faster through water than through air! Find out why we still hear muffled sounds underwater and how dolphins use echolocation to find fish.
Take the science above water with Echoes in Nature, a No Sweat Nature Study class exploring why a shout echoes in a canyon but not in a forest. Use code NOSWEAT for $10 off your first quarterly membership payment.
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🎙️ Leave Mrs. Cindy a voice message! What's the most interesting thing you've ever seen in nature? This is your last chance to share a sighting for our current listener question!

You can see a lake's waves and shoreline, but the land beneath the water holds the key to understanding it. Listen in to learn how a lake fills and changes, why its water can move without making it a river, and why the line between a lake and a pond gets surprisingly fuzzy.
Keep learning in the Great Lakes video class, where we'll map all five lakes and follow the water between them. Use code NOSWEAT for $10 off your first quarterly membership payment.
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From a cheetah's flexible spine to a kangaroo's springlike tendons, animal movement depends on body parts working together. Learn how specialized legs, tails, claws, fins, and wings help animals run, climb, swim, fly, and hop.
Keep learning with the Drawing Life in Motion No Sweat Nature Study class, where careful animal observation meets creative nature journaling. Use code NOSWEAT for $10 off your first quarterly membership payment.
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Flower colors do much more than make a garden beautiful! Pigments and reflected light create the colors we see, while ultraviolet patterns, shape, scent, and even blooming time can help flowers attract bees, butterflies, birds, and other pollinators.
Keep learning about flowers in Miss Lady Bird's Wildflowers, where we'll explore native wildflowers and their importance to pollinators and habitats. Use code NOSWEAT for $10 off your first quarterly membership payment.
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🎙️ Leave Mrs. Cindy a voice message! What's the most interesting thing you've ever seen happen in nature?

What makes late summer so special in nature? Learn what's happening with plants and animals as summer winds down, how changing daylight plays a role, and why those familiar insect sounds become such a noticeable part of the season.
🦗 Join No Sweat Nature Study for The Music of Insects and 200+ other science lessons. Use coupon NOSWEAT on your first quarterly payment.
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⛈️ Join The Wonder of Thunder FREE Event! Learn about the science of thunder with Mrs. Cindy and hear how thunder comes to life through music with Mrs. Mary of SQUILT Music Appreciation.
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