Science News for Kids: TeacherZone home
A set of questions about this week's article for use in your classroom. Click here. Welcome to the TeacherZone Science materials and resources for teachers and parents. Article: Invisible fossils of the first animals This week's article-related ... [... more]
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Science News for Kids: PuzzleZone home
The PuzzleZone team has a new brainteaser for you every week. Try this week's puzzle, then come back next week to check your answer. Eight numbers are placed in the circles as shown above. Do you see a pattern in going from one number to the next ... [... more]
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Science News for Kids: SciFiZone home
Bring in your imagination and sense of wonder. Leave your doubts at the door. This is where creativity dances with science, art grows from ideas, and storytellers spin hypotheses. The "Monster Madness" challenge stirred up some mail. Thank you! [... more]
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Science News for Kids: ScienceFairZone home
Science fair tips, topics, news, student profiles, winning projects, and more. Emerging Networks' "U.S. Space and Rocket Center" Award, Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge, 2007 Project background: Prem's brother had a beat-up old car, . [... more]
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Science News for Kids: LabZone home
Here's your chance to get hands-on experience exploring the wonders of the world around us. Investigate the seed-eating preferences of birds in your local area. Read more. Talk Back: Do you have any comments about this activity? Send them to us ... [... more]
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Science News for Kids: Snapshot: Science loses out when ...
Tropical glaciers are vanishing at an especially rapid pace—and taking valuable climate records with them. It’s hard to imagine a mountain range without snow-covered peaks. But that may soon be the case in countries in or near the tropics. ... [... more]
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Science News for Kids: Snapshot: Antarctica warms, which ...
Unexpected rates of warming threaten to change Antarctica and pose a threat to the survival of some of its penguins. New evidence from satellites and weather stations suggests that way down south, Antarctica is feeling the heat. And that’s not ... [... more]
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Science News for Kids: Snapshot: Hungry bug seeks hot meal
Superman may have something in common with one kind of seed-eating bug. Both use special powers to zero in on a warm target. In the bug’s case, the target is dinner. For humans, finding some Oreos or popcorn can be a challenge in a crowded ... [... more]
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Science News for Kids: Snapshot: Middle school science ...
Curiosity brings kids to Washington, D.C. for national science competition Have you ever noticed something — like ants in your backyard, or a smoke from a forest fire, or the moon at night — and thought to yourself “I wonder…?” These two words ... [... more]
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Science News for Kids: Snapshot: Fast-flying fungal spores
Using high-speed cameras, scientists identify the fastest spores on Earth. Life's not easy for fungi that live on piles of animal waste, or dung. For starters, well, they're living in dung. And to complete their life cycle, fungi release cells ... [... more]
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Science News for Kids: Feature: Seeds of the Future
Around the world, scientists are putting seeds to sleep for up to thousands of years. On an unusual old farm in New York City, workers are stashing away the seeds of the future. In this unlikely place, researchers are putting the seeds from ... [... more]
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Sick bees?
More than one-fourth of the honeybees in the United States have disappeared since last fall, and scientists are trying to figure out why. Entomologists—scientists who study insects—have a real mystery on their hands. All across the country, ... [... more]
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