Leap year and round rooms

ABC KIDS News Time

01-03-2024 • 10 mins

On today's show, we'll leap into the countdown with a chat about leap years, and then swim over to hear about some lucky fish that were saved from a drying lake.

We'll learn about how the shape of a room could change the way someone feels, and then meet some Indigenous performers bringing an traditional story to a modern stage.

Then, it's time for the Wow of the Week!

Quiz Questions

1. How often do we have a leap year?

2. Why did Adam the biologist have to move quickly to save the fish?

3. Can you name one thing that happened to the people in round rooms in the experiment?

4. What language is the story Wundig Wer Wilura sung in?

5. How many years will it take to play the song As Slow As Possible?

Bonus Tricky Question

Which instrument are they playing As Slow as Possible on?

Answers

1. Once every four years

2. The lake they were in was drying up

3. Heart rates slowed/ they had more creative answers to questions

4. Noongar

5. 639.

Bonus Tricky Answer

Organ

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