The Kid Should See This  • February 4, 2026

🐿️ WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK:

Birth of a Squirrel Litter ➜

It’s National News Literacy Week, and the News Literacy Project has a downloadable Activity Planner for educators, resources for families, and more to help students separate fact from fiction.

These NewsWise resources for educators from The Guardian Foundation help students aged 7-11 build critical literacy skills through news-based lesson plans and activities. There are also NewsWise resources for families.

NewseumEd provides media literacy lesson plans that focus on the importance of a free press and the First Amendment.

The Poynter Institute's MediaWise initiative teaches fact-checking and media literacy skills through videos, courses, and social media content for audiences from teens to seniors.

TKSST shares a handful of news-related videos in our media literacy collection, too, including Critical Thinking Strategies: A guide for assessing information and The Founders vs. Fake News: How informed were early Americans?

In other news:

🚀 NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed lunar flight in more than five decades, has been delayed to March 2026 after encountering “several challenges” during its launch rehearsal.

🤖 Media consultant Jeremy Carrasco warns about uploading photos to Kling AI for the trendy baby/kid dance videos. “Kling has an unproven data privacy record.”

🧊 How ICE Raids Are Affecting Children—And What Schools Can Do, from The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley.

🗓️ GGSC also has a February Happiness Calendar for Educators.

✍️ Research shows that handwriting activates brain areas associated with learning and memory more effectively than typing does.

🌸 These 1,000-Year-Old Paper Flowers, Sealed in a Cave, Are a Marvel of Preservation, via Kottke, who also shared this harrowing story:

🌊 Mother says asking 13-year-old son to swim four hours to save family ‘one of the hardest decisions’.

🦈 “Scientists estimate that Greenland sharks may survive for upward of 400 years… But it’s unclear how exactly their bodies keep on cruising decade after decade.”

🐕 Best of 2026 Masters Agility Championship at the Westminster Dog Show! This fantastic 23-minute video is chock-full of eager canine energy and skill. I look forward to this event every year, and these sweet competitors are a delight for all ages.

Videos from last week are below. ⬇️ — Rion

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