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: 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: Feature: Where rivers run uphill
Three scientists travel to Antarctica to explore a secret world hidden beneath the ice. The snowmobile bucks like a mechanical bull as it bounces over a mound of ice. I squeeze the throttle and zoom forward, trying to catch the two snowmobiles in ... [... more]
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Challenger
The science of tracking millions of pieces of garbage that orbit Earth is tricky and essential. On a clear night, you can look in the sky and see the moon and stars. You might even see the blinking light of a working satellite as it flies past, ... [... more]
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Science News for Kids: Snapshot: In Antarctica watch the ...
The tortures of Antarctica include not only cold, but also heat. I discovered it nearly every morning. As I woke in my tiny tent, in the middle of a million square miles of ice, I struggled to get my clothes off quickly enough. The thermometer ... [... more]
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Science News for Kids: Feature: Polar Ice Feels the Heat
This is the first of a two-part series on global climate change. National Snow and Ice Data Center, W. O. Field, B. F. Molnia. Can you feel the world getting warmer? Maybe you can’t, but ice across the planet’s surface has certainly been feeling ... [... more]
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