Have you ever seen a chinese lantern? Chinese lanterns are made of paper and are used to decorate a home during Chinese New Year. What’s Chinese New Year? Chinese new year celebrates the end of the lunar cycle. The lunar cycle is the oldest calender in the world but it’s not too reliable because the [...]
Little miss muffet sat on her tuffet eating her curds and whey Then along came a spider, who sat down beside her and frightened miss muffet away! Did you know that curds are what we need to make yummy cheese? How is cheese made? It all starts with milking a cow. The milk is then [...]
Everyday we use pencils. We use lead pencils for our school work and coloured pencils for drawing awesome pictures! But who invented the pencil? Well the truth is no-one really knows. What they think happened is in 1500′s England, there was a big storm that blew over a tree. When the storm cleared, the villagers [...]
Have you been in an aeroplane? Did you know that if the jet engine wasn’t invented we’d be keeping our feet on the ground? Jet engines move the aeroplane forward with a force that is produced by a tremendous thrust! What is a Thrust? Thrust is the force that pushes the aeroplane engine forward. Sir [...]
There are some pretty amazing animals out there! Do you remember when Garth and Bev had fireflies help them light the cave so that everyone in Ballybeg could see the cave drawings? Well fireflies are not the only animals that can glow in the dark there’s also the angler fish and the flashlight fish, plus [...]
Can you get an ice cube out of water without getting your hands wet? Materials: - Salt - Drinking glass - Water - Length of string - Ice cubes The experiment steps: 1) Fill the glass with water 2) Place an ice cube in the glass 3) Dangle the end of the string on the ice [...]
Baby eagles need to learn how to survive in the wild, but they don’t go to school like you. Baby eagles learn from watching their parents. This is a special animal behaviour called imprinting. When a baby eagle is only 2 months old he will start watching how his Mummy hunts for food and also how [...]
Ducks are birds that can fly and swim. Look at the duck’s feet. They look different to other birds feet don’t they? Their special feet are called webbed feet and the shape of them helps the duck to swim very well in water. Now watch the baby duck in the video below. See how she [...]
Have you ever been out walking out in the forest or in a park and find that your socks and shoelaces and even your t-shirt have little seeds stuck to them. It can be kind of annoying to have to spend ages picking them off! But why do they stick to you? Why are the [...]
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Are You A Drain Detective?
Have you ever been to the Southern Hemisphere? Maybe you’ve visited relatives in Australia or been on holidays in Thailand? Did you see that the water spins down the drain differently to home? No? Well it does! In the Northern Hemisphere water goes down the drain counter clockwise, but in the Southern Hemisphere water washes [...]