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Think Like a Crow! — The Scientific Method
20 x 10 min.
Clean, M/E + Japanese, English script
2013-2014 ©NHK
With its title taken from one of Aesop’s Fables in which a crow cleverly uses pebbles to drink
water from the bottom of a pitcher, this educational series aims to teach children the four steps
of the scientific method: observation, hypothesis, experiment, and evaluation. Humorous
segments demonstrate the first three steps of the scientific method, while the fourth step,
evaluation, is left to the viewers to think through themselves. For example, two lit candles
of differing height are placed under an overturned vase: which will go out first? We see the
outcome, but the narration ends with only the merest hint about the relative weight of oxygen
and carbon dioxide.
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