The Children's Hour

Because kids are seeing guns in so many places, The Children's Hour has tips on gun safety that hunting families have taught their kids for generations. We learn from kids who are hunters themselves on what hunting means to them, and we explore gun laws in the US and the world. Gun violence prevention begins with a conversation at home. Join us for this lifesaving radio show and podcast for kids about gun violence prevention. Comes with a learning guide!

We celebrate every kid’s favorite holiday: Halloween with a musical special full of stories, songs and poems to creep you out and get you ready for the holiday. We’ll be spooked by ghost stories told by Bill Harley, Catherine Dines, AJ, and Shomo in the Monkey Punch. The kids’ crew will share what their Halloween plans are, including a trunker treat. We’ll hear how one of the kids on the crew turns trick-or-treating into an opportunity to collect clothing for her area’s public school clothing bank. Join us for a spooky Halloween musical special podcast for kids.

This time on The Children’s Hour, we’re exploring the human heart and how it works with pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist Dr. Sally Vender. The miraculous muscle never stops beating, needing no conscious effort, but it does take effort to keep it healthy and strong. Learn how the heart works, why the heart never fatigues, and what makes the heart race when we’re exercising or nervous, and slow down when we’re sleeping. Comes with a learning guide and activities to learn even more in this podcast for kids about the heart.

Take a trip with The Children's Hour to Greenland to learn about the world’s largest island and the people who live there. We’ll explore Greenland’s culture, landscape, and hear music in the Greenlandic language. Find out the history of the Greenlandic people from the first migrations until today in this Greenland podcast and radio show for kids.

This week we explore a creature that used to live throughout the grasslands of the United States, the elusive black footed ferret. Once declared extinct, the highly endangered specialist predator may make a comeback in the North American prairie thanks in part to our guest, Paul Marinari, retired Senior Curator at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute at the National Zoo.

This time on The Children’s Hour, learn about space junk with space anthropologist Dr. Alice Gorman. We’ll explore the consequences of polluting our upper stratosphere, and what the plan is to pick up our trash in orbit. Comes with a learning guide, this is a space junk podcast for kids.

ICKY: A Radio Musical podcast is a pandemic inspired, original theatrical performance and musical podcast for kids with a learning guide.

Way back in the days before the end of The Big Sick, students everywhere were forced to stare at computer screens featuring live video feeds of their classmates. This was happening in bedrooms, living rooms, and kitchens across the country and the world ...

This time on The Children's Hour podcast for kids we learn about the extraordinary life of Jim Henson, the legendary puppeteer who created Sesame Street, the Muppets, and many movies, TV shows, and songs. Jim Henson's biographer Brian Jay Jones joins the Kids Crew in an exploration of the creative genius of a guy who just wanted to be remembered as a true artist. Learn even more in our learning guide.

Bear with us this time on The Children's Hour as we learn about bears. Meet the legendary Dr. Lynn Rogers from the North American Bear Center. Find out how these gentle giants fit into our ecology, where and how they live, and how Dr. Rogers overcame his fear of bears. It's a bears podcast for kids, with a companion learning guide and activities.