Super Sand Nina and the Neurons

# If you've got a question and you don't know where to go

# Ask Nina for some help Cos she's got a science show

# She makes sense of her senses While helping all her fans

# By doing her experiments with potions and with bangs

-# Touch your tongue

-Tongue!

-# Fingers

-Fingers!

-# Eyes.

-Eyes!

-Ears.

-Ears!

-Nose.

-Nose!

# Nina and the Neurons find out what you need to know

# Nina and the Neurons find out what you need to know

# Luke, he helps us with our eyes and Felix with our touch

# Ollie sniffs out smells And Belle, she hears so much

# Bud is Ollie's brother He helps us with our taste

# They're Nina's little neurons And they're coming to your place!

-# Touch your tongue

-Tongue!

-# Fingers

-Fingers!

-# Eyes.

-Eyes!

-Ears.

-Ears!

-Nose.

-Nose!

# Nina and the Neurons find out what you need to know

# Nina and the Neurons find out what you need to know

# Oh yeah! #

Oh, hello. Oh, I'm just doing a very important experiment to find out

how long you can dip a biscuit into hot tea before it turns to mush.

Oh. That must have been too long!

BEEPING

I hear a beep, I see a flash, I wonder what they're going to ask?

ALL: 'Hi, Nina!'

Hi, guys.

We've got a question for you.

Where does the sand on the beach come from?

That's a brilliant question! Where does the sand on the beach come from?

Well, why don't you all come down to my lab

and we'll do some experiments to investigate?

ALL: 'See ya soon, Nina! Bye!'

Bye!

Well, I'm going to need some help to answer this one

and I know just who to ask. OK, Neurons, time to get to work.

ALL: Neurons at the ready, Nina.

OK. Today's question is, "Where does the sand on the beach come from?"

Which Neuron will be most useful to help find the answer?

ALL: Me! Me! Me! Oh, me!

Will it be fabulous Felix?

I can help so very much if you need the sense of touch.

Will it be beautiful Belle?

I send messages to brain from ear.

If there's a sound, I'll help you hear.

Will it be lovely Luke?

For looking and seeing, day or night,

I'll help you with your sense of sight.

Will it be awesome Ollie?

If it's pongy or whiffy but you can't tell,

-my messages help your sense of smell.

-Or will it be baby Bud?

Sour, salty, bitter or sweet, I'm your taste buddy whenever you eat!

-It's Luke!

-Yes!

ALL: Go, Luke! Go, Luke! Go, Luke! Go, Luke! Go, Luke! Go, Luke!

Go Luke!

Cool, Nina. I'll be lookin' out to help ya.

Today's question is, "Where does the sand on the beach come from?"

We see the sand on the beach, so Luke, our seeing Neuron, is going to be helping.

I better get the lab ready before the experimenters arrive.

Remy loves ballet, Anessa loves singing

and Emma loves the fairground,

but they all want to find out more about sand.

So today, for one day only, they become experimenters!

Hi, guys.

ALL: Hi, Nina.

Welcome to my lab. Come to the desk.

You asked a brilliant question -

where does the sand on the beach come from?

Why do you want to know?

I like making sandcastles on the beach.

-But we don't know where the sand comes from.

-Sand is interesting.

For our first experiment, we'll use our sense.

ALL: Whoop-whoo! A senses experiment! We're ready, Nina!

OK, experimenters, pop these blindfolds on

because you're just going to use your sense of touch.

I have three bowls in front of me.

One contains sand, one contains salt and one contains sugar.

I want you to feel inside each of them and try and guess which is sand.

Here's the first one.

-Salt!

-Sugar!

-Sand!

-Ooh, feels grainy and a bit gritty. Little bit hard?

-Yeah.

Here's our next bowl.

-Sand!

-Sand, yeah.

-No, no, it must be sugar,

And here's the last one. Feel what it's like.

-Salt!

-This is sand! Sand.

-We can't decide which was sand.

Why don't you take your blindfolds off and now can you tell me

which one is sand?

ALL: That one.

This one! Yeah. Sand looks a bit different from the others.

So the sand, salt and sugar all FELT the same

but sand LOOKS different.

My microscope will let us take an even closer look at some sand.

-What do the grains of sand look like now?

-Rocks.

-Ah.

Under the microscope, the tiny grains of sand look like rocks or pebbles.

-Yeah.

-So, from this experiment, we found out that

sand, like salt and sugar, is made of lots of tiny grains.

But we still don't know where sand comes from.

I think we need to do another experiment.

For this experiment, I'm going to make a mess!

Now I'm going to add some warm water.

Give it a good stir.

Something is happening to the salt and sugar but, to see it,

we need to pour the water back out again.

So, the sand is still in the beaker.

But where's the salt and sugar gone?

-In the water.

-In the water! Absolutely right!

This experiment has shown us that salt and sugar

seem to disappear when you put them in water. We call this dissolving.

But the sand is different. It doesn't dissolve in water,

which is just as well. If it did, it'd disappear into the sea

and there would be no sand on the beach to make sandcastles.

So we know that sand is made of lots of tiny, hard grains.

But what are the grains made of?

I think we need to investigate a little further.

In fact, we need to do some digging!

Let's go, guys!

Where do you think we're going?

Nina said we would have to do some digging.

I don't like the sound of that!

Nina might get soil under her fingernails! Ugh!

I think we're here.

And I recognise that smell!

Look!

Wow! Look at those waves! Aren't they amazing?

ALL: Yes.

They make a brilliant crashing noise, too, Nina!

They certainly do, Belle.

We've come to the beach to find out more about sand.

We need to find some buried treasure! Arr!

X marks the spot, me hearties!

So let's get digging! Whoo-hoo!

-I think it's up there.

-Over there?

-Yeah.

I mean that's where the cross is.

Where that orange thing is.

Oh, I love the smell of the salty sea.

But when are they going to find the treasure?!

Ooh, look at this, girls.

ALL: Ooh!

Do you think that's an X? ALL: Yeah!

Let's move the wood and start digging!

I just found it!

Brilliant. OK, girls. Here's your spades.

-I think it's...

-Guys, guys, guys!

ALL: Wow!

Let's open it.

ALL GASP

Wow, look!

Wow!

Nina's found a diamond!

It's not a diamond, Bud. It's quartz.

Quartz. That's a funny-sounding word, Nina.

It is a bit funny-sounding, Belle. I quite like it.

So do I. Quartz. Quartz. Quartz. Quartz!

So quartz is a special type of rock.

Can you remember what the sand grains looked like under the microscope?

-ALL: Yeah.

-They looked like rocks.

That's right. They looked a bit like this quartz rock, didn't they?

-Yes, Nina.

-That's because the sand on most beaches

is mostly made from quartz.

-But how's it made, Nina?

-To answer that, we need to go back to the lab

for one final experiment.

THEY CHEER

OK. WE know that sand comes from the beach,

but what else do we always find at the beach?

Smelly seaweed.

Noisy seagulls?

Yummy ice cream!

ALL: The sea!

That's right, the sea!

This experiment will show us that the sea is very important

in making sand.

I need to put my protective gloves on. You guys already have yours on.

-We also need our safety goggles on to protect our eyes.

-Yes!

It's very important to protect our eyes

when doing experiments in Nina's science lab.

OK, we're going to use these pebbles from the beach

to try and break up these rocks into tiny pieces like sand.

Wow! This experiment sounds like fun!

Bud, it's not a good idea to break things normally.

this is part of a controlled experiment. Let's do it!

Whoo! That was hard work!

But we did it. We used the pebbles to break the rocks

into tiny grains, like sand.

This happens to rocks in the sea.

Remember the waves crashing on the rocks at the beach?

ALL: Yes, Nina.

When the waves crash on the rocks, the rocks and pebbles bash together,

along with other things, like sea shells,

and after a long, long time,

and lots of bashing and banging together,

the rocks break up into sand.

Your question was, where does sand come from?

I think we've answered it.

We discovered sand is made of lots of tiny grains.

These grains don't dissolve in water, and are mostly made of quartz.

The waves in the sea smash the rocks against one another

and over a long time, these rocks break up into lots of grains of sand!

I hope that's answered your question. ALL: Thanks, Nina.

ALL: Bye! Bye!

If you want to know more about the science all around us,

go to the Nina section on the CBeebies website.

Lab coat on, Nina?

Lab coat on, Ollie.

Safety gloves on, Nina?

Safety gloves on, Felix.

Don't forget your goggles, Nina.

Goggles are on, Luke. I think we're ready!

# We do experiments in the lab

-# In the lab!

-Shooby-dooby, in the lab

# Bubbling experiments in the lab

# In the lab!

# Go, Nina, in the lab

# Fizzing and popping Steam and smoke

# We need protection Don't we, folks?

# We always put our safety first

# Shooby-dooby, dooby-dooby

# We do experiments in the lab

# In the lab!

# Go, Nina! #

It's been a marvellous day.

I really enjoyed feeling those grains of salt, sugar and sand.

I've had a fabby day!

Finding the buried treasure was the BEST!

Oh, I've had a brilliant day.

Nina and the children made a smashing noise

breaking those rocks up!

Our day's been bursting with experiments.

I hope you've enjoyed it. See you soon!

ALL: Bye!

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