How Things Work: Great STEM Books for 8-12 Year Olds, recommended by Our Children's Editor Read 1 The Way Things Work by David Macaulay Read 2 How Was That Built? The Stories Behind Awesome Structures Roma Agrawal, Katie Hickey (illustrator) ...
That magical time of the year when your hemisphere reaches as close to thesunas it can go, yearning for a burning hug that's only slightly cooled by aloe vera. After a day at the beach with nothing more than one application of SPF 15, you might be cursing our planet for tipping you ...
Set in the year 2805, “Wall-E” follows a friendly, curious robot who’s all alone on Earth. The human race didn’t die out, they merely abandoned the planet after overcrowding it with too much stuff. Wall-E stands for “Waste Allocation Load Lifter — Earth Class,” and he spends ...
Created by the multiple award winning team behind the journalistically STUNNING The Week Junior (covering current affairs and science for 8 – 14 year olds) who have seen a 29.1% sales growth in the past year, the future looks very exciting for intelligence, and how the youth of today will...
Significantly, the DEL’s (2012b) strategy for young people, titled ‘Pathways to Success: Preventing Exclusion and Promoting Participation of Young People’, states that, ‘there are currently 46,000 16–24 year olds who are not in education, employment or training in Northern Ireland’. This...
When asked to justify their belief in the existence of a given phenomenon, 5-year-olds and 6-year-olds often mentioned the properties, especially the causal powers, of the entity in question [16]. This was true for both scientific and religious entities. For example, in justifying their bel...
As you can imagine, with two 5 year olds, a 9 year old and a 3 year old, it was difficult (actually impossible for us) to get all the balloons ready to go at the same time, so we didn't have so much as a race as a free-for-all. MORE: How to Make Indoor Paper Boomerangs...
My kids wanted the glass candy in different colours to decorate their cakes, and smoothies stuff. Do us!? Yes, you can use whatever the colour and flavour you wish your glass candy to be!! My elder one tried for rainbow assortment and it worked out beautifully. J She was very happy lo...
the average 30-year-old chronologically is probably 30 years old biologically, but you have some distribution where you have probably about half of your 30-year-olds are gonna be older biologically than they are chronologically, and another half which is younger. [calm music] [narrator] so ...
That’s because their relationship with the curriculum was about learning stuff to get a grade. It might have been interesting or fascinating at the time, but if the motivator is the grade, then the motivation isn’t the pressing need to understand anything. So, when we assign grades to ...