Helping Parents, Caregivers and Teachers Discover Quality Educational Kids Content.
Trees are awesome. They clean pollution out of the air, and produce oxygen for us to breathe. They are food and shelter for wildlife. Trees give us shade, flowers, fruit and nuts, and wood. Today is Arbor Day, created to encourage everyone to plant a tree. What kind of tree will you plant?
Archive
Today, April 26th, is Alien Day. In the 1979 movie, Alien, LV-426 was the moon where xenomorphs were discovered. The movies are pretty scary, but the toys are cool! Less scary, is Pretzel Day! Whether it’s a big soft pretzel, mini hard pretzels, pretzel sticks or rods or nuggets, the salty bread is delicious.
Archive
A group of amateur treasure hunters in England, usually find thimbles and shotgun shells with their metal detectors. The 4 men were excited to find silver coins in a field in Buckinghamshire. They dug some more, and discovered 557 gold and silver coins from the 14th century! They’ll split the $193,000 treasure with the landowner.
Archive
LEGO has created a fun tool, to teach blind and visually impaired kids to read Braille. The Braille alphabet is a pattern of raised dots, so they made Braille Bricks! The bricks also have the letter printed on each piece, so everyone can learn to read by touch. The LEGOs connect to regular sets.
Archive
There’s a lot going on today, like World Penguin Day! Emperor penguins can grow to nearly 4 feet tall, while little blue penguins only reach 16 inches. No penguins live at the North Pole! Except for Galápagos penguins on the equator, all penguins live in the Southern Hemisphere, and not one of the 17 species can fly!
Archive
Today is, Malaria Day? The disease is nothing to celebrate. Malaria is spread by infected mosquitoes, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa. That’s one reason why mosquitoes are the world’s deadliest animal, killing 750,000 people a year! Since it’s also Thank You Thursday, let’s thank bats. A single bat, can eat 8000 mosquitoes a night!
Archive
Today is National Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day. If it’s not possible for your parents to take you to work, ask them to teach you about their job later today. It’s also Telephone Day. Learn to dial a rotary telephone. Phones used to be just phones, and that was impressive enough!
Archive
A man in North Carolina should have an abundance of luck. Fred Reissman collected 228 four-leaf clovers in under 2 hours, setting a world record for most found in an 8 hour period. Last year, 10 year-old Katie Borka found 166 four-leaf clovers in 1 hour, in her own back yard in Virginia! Have you ever found a four-leaf clover?
Archive
NASA’s InSight lander, arrived on Mars in November. Its mission is to measure Mars’s temperatures, rotation, and seismic activity. InSight recently recorded its first evidence of a Marsquake! Scientists believe the tremors occurred because the planet’s interior is shrinking as it cools, causing cracks in the outer crust. Martian seismology is an official field!
Archive
Eating a candy jawbreaker takes dedication. The giant balls are made with layer after layer, of rock-hard candy. Instead, YouTuber Burls Art, turned them into hard rock. He created a Flying V guitar, out of 8 sliced-up mega jawbreakers! I bet you could play some sweet licks on that guitar!
Archive