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Architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello created a great way for kids to play together, even though a wall was separating them. They installed see-saws through the border fence between the United States and Mexico. Kids have fun together, no matter where they were born. It’s a good lesson to teach adults!
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Frere Jacques, Row Row Row Your Boat, and Make New Friends are 3 popular songs that can be sung in rounds. That’s when one person starts singing, then the next person starts when the first person gets to the second line. Try it with some friends, for Rounds Resounding Day! It’s lots of fun!
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Have you heard of Earth Overshoot Day? It’s the point in the year, when humans have used more of Earth’s natural resources, than the Earth can produce in a year. We’ve already reached that point in the year, and there’s still 5 months to go. Think about ways to make Earth’s resources last longer!
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Listen up you kids! It’s Respect For Parents Day, so show your mom and dad a little more respect! After all, there are lots of people who don’t want to be parents, and they’re celebrating International Childfree Day. Let’s just agree to treat everyone with respect, because it’s the right thing to do!
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An Irish teenager is the 2019 winner of the Google Science Fair. Fionn Ferreira, from Ballydehob, won $50,000 for his new method of extracting microplastics from water. His combination of magnets and ferrofluids, made with oil and magnetic powder, can remove tiny plastic fibers from waterways and oceans. I hope to see his method used globally!
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The year you’re in 4th grade in the United States, you can get into any National Park for free! The Every Kid In A Park program was created by President Obama in 2015. 4th-graders can print a free annual pass, for them and everyone else in the car, at Every-Kid-In-A-Park.gov.
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Today is World Ranger Day. With over 100,000 parks and protected areas around the world, park rangers are essential! In nature reserves where endangered species like elephants live, park rangers put their lives on the line, to protect animals from poachers. Park rangers help preserve the parks, so everyone can enjoy them forever!
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Last week, scientists found a shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. It’s an almost perfectly preserved ship from the Renaissance period, around the late 15th century. The ship’s masts are still standing, and even the tender boat, used to shuttle people to and from the ship, is in place against the mast!
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Do you know how to play the hydraulaphone? Maybe you’d like to take nellophone lessons. Or you could watch someone play the theremin. It’s Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day! It’s also National Mutt Day. Purebred dogs are great, but 2 breeds mixed together is twice as great, right? So a mixed-up mutt is best of all!
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Last month, The Planetary Society launched the LightSail 2 spacecraft into orbit. Last week, the spacecraft’s solar sails were unfurled! 4 triangular sails make one large 340-square-foot sail, which reflects photons from the sun. That’s enough to propel the sail, since there’s no resistance in space. Now it can sail around, sending us cool photographs!
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