Bones

What is a bone? A bone is a living, growing tissue that makes up our body’s skeleton.  Bones are made of collagen (a protein) and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium. Babies are born with around 300 bones. Some of these fuse together, reducing the...

Body Parts of an Insect

What are Insects? Insects are animals that have lived on Earth even before the dinosaurs.   With over a million species, insects make up more than 80% of the animal world. That is why we see insects everywhere. Insects have lived so long due to body part adaptations...

Life Cycle of a Frog

Life Cycle of a Frog Frogs are amphibians that live both on land and water. They have short bodies and smooth skin. They are excellent jumpers.  We often hear frogs before we see them. You cannot miss the croaking sound of frogs near ponds or in gardens. Frogs undergo...

Photosynthesis

What is special about plants? Like all living beings, plants need food to survive, too. The difference between plants and animals is that plants can make their own food. Plants are called “producers” as they make their own food. Almost all parts of a plant can be...

Weather Types

What is Weather? Weather describes the current atmospheric conditions in a place at any given moment in time.  On a day-to-day basis, it tells us about the temperature, precipitation, humidity (amount of moisture in the air), and wind conditions. A meteorologist is a...

Simple Machines

What is a Simple Machine? It is a basic device with few or no moving parts that helps reduce the amount of time and energy needed to do a task. It makes work easier. A force is a push or pull on an object that makes it move, slow down, speed up, or stop. A simple...

Dinosaurs

What are Dinosaurs? Dinosaurs were prehistoric reptiles living on Earth nearly 220 million to 65 million years ago.    Dinosaurs could walk upright, unlike other reptiles like crocodiles. Several species of dinosaurs roamed our Earth. Dinosaurs became extinct when an...

Water Cycle

Where is Earth’s Water? Water on Earth exists in different states.  Solid – Glaciers and polar ice caps Liquid – Oceans, rivers, streams, and soil Gas – Water Vapor in the atmosphere Water moves through these different states in a repeating cycle....

Rainbows

What is a Rainbow? Rainbows are arcs that appear in the sky and form from the interaction between sunlight and water droplets. When rainbows are formed, you can see small strips of colors one after the other in the color scale. They are aligned, going from red at the...

Magnets

What are Magnets? Magnets are objects that can attract or pull other objects made of metals towards themselves. Magnets cannot attract non-metallic objects like paper, wood, cloth, etc. Most magnets are made of a metal called iron. Magnets attract metals like iron,...
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