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THE FUN ZONE : Sundial
TAKE THIS SUNDIAL, or shadow clock, outside on a sunny day. It’s not as exact as a watch, but it’s more fun!
Letters from Leo
CHILDREN STORIES
Meltdown at the Doughnut Factory
CHILDREN STORIES
OPHELIA'S LAST WORD - EXTREME JELLYBEAN CUISINE
IT TAKES A long time to make jellybeans! But whipping up this delicious jellybean bark won’t take you a whole week.
Telling Time
Art by Kelly Canby
Secret Message Scytales
HISTORY COMICS
ONE WEEK WONDER
WOULD YOU WAIT a week to eat a jellybean?
Golden Crested Crane
GRANDMOTHER STORIES
Doodlebug & Dandelion - The Jellybean Machine
“Where’s Dandelion?”
Arty Crafty Heart Strings
Here's what we will learn today. We call them Heart Strings, and you can use them for Valentine's decor, a cute kids' necklace, or even a scrapbook or card decoration.
The Farmer And The Well
A farmer looking for a source of water for his farm bought a well from his neighbour. The neighbour was cunning, though, and refused to let the farmer take water from the well.
Its Different!
Train Platform Schools, India
The Boasting Traveler
A man came back from a tour and boasted about his adventurous journeys.
World Bee Day! 20 MAY
Dear Friends, Bees are so important to the health of our planet that they have their own special day. Yes, World Bee Day takes place on 20 May each year.
The Other Side Of The Wall
A young woman inherited a beautiful garden from her grandmother.
Zoo Boo! - Electric Eel
The electric eel gets its name from its shocking abilities!
THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES
Hunched over your paper, you try to concentrate. This is the worst kind of assignment.
LEARNING TO HEAR
With cochlear implants
Q&A
Q Where do personal preferences come from? For example, I like hard rock music. Why am I that social outcast who runs screaming into the bathroom at school dances when everyone else is singing along? —Kate, age 13, Ohio
Trevor Cox – Acoustic engineer and Stonehenge researcher
Trevor Cox is a professor of acoustic engineering at the University of Salford in the United Kingdom. He engineers systems to make sound better. And he studies how the structures we build affect the sounds we make inside them.
How Fast Is Sound?
An experiment
Adolphe Sax – How To Invent An Instrument
The story of the saxophone
The Sounds Of Star Wars
This is the sound design activity you’re looking for.
Courtney Craven – Gamer and disability activist
Craven does presentations worldwide to assist game developers, teachers, writers, and others in making text and images available to people with any disability.
Deaf Friends
Want to communicate better with kids with hearing loss? Try these tips.
Can You Please Lower Your Voice?
The experience of auditory sensitivity
SNOT-COPTER: Drone at Work
THE BOAT IS on the move. It speeds over icy waters toward a humpback whale.
Fruity Valentine Nachos
Strawberries are red; Blueberries are blue. Valentine nachos Say, “I love you!”
Soured on Pickles
IT STUCK TO the bar of soap in the bathtub, so you didn’t want to wash with it.
Kitty Cleanup
HAVE YOU EVER wondered how your cat does such a good job of cleaning herself using just her tongue? Try this activity and find out!