Portal Software Let me write about some IT stuff here today. May be its useful for teens visiting this site. As you all know IT has taken over most of the businesses and drive most of the things in our day to day lives. Nowadays the websites are driven by content management system (CMS). Content […]
Category: Kids Learning
Dinosaurs!
Dinosaurs! Do you remember the dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park movies? The dinosaurs in the movies are pure fantasy. Of course they are not real. But they used to live in real, ages ago. The movies related to these extinct creatures are a good combination of science and art. The famous director Steven Spielberg and […]
Energy Conservation
Energy Conservation Day by day the consumption of natural resources like wood, coal, natural gas, diesel, paper and leather, are increasing. There is a possibility of these natural resources to exhaust sooner than expected. Energy conservation is the only solution to this problem. There are lots of ways to conserve energy; you just have to […]
The First Day In College
The first day of college is when there is nervous excitement in the air. The first day generally finds small groups of boys and girls wandering around the campus, trying to look assured and important but end up looking slightly bewildered at this rush of activity completing admission formalities and discovering the location of various […]
Volcanoes!
Volcanoes, one of the natural calamities with its destructive forces can destroy a large part of the earth with the eruptions of liquid boiling lava. Though volcanoes are rarely minor incidents of geology in action as per the geologists but can take a heavy toll from the lives that survive in the are where the […]
Inventors And Inventions
ADHESIVE TAPE Richard G. Drew (1899-1980) invented masking tape and clear adhesive tape (also called cellophane tape or Scotch tape). Drew was an engineer for the 3M company (the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing). Drew’s first tape invention was a masking tape made for painters in 1923 (this tape was designed to help painters paint a […]
Why Does Water Stay Cool In ‘Matkas’?
Have you ever had a drink of cool refreshing water from a Matka or earthen pot placed outside? Surprisingly enough, the pots are exposed to blazing sunlight, yet the water within stays so cool. How is that possible? This is because of a physical process known as evaporation. When a liquid changes to a gaseous […]
Elevator Physics
Elevator Physics You get into an elevator (or a lift, as we sometimes call it) and for a second or two, just as the elevator moves down, we feel weightless. On the other hand, if we go up in an elevator, we suddenly feel heavier just as the elevator lurches upwards. To understand this feeling […]
Jellyfish
Jellyfish While strolling on the sea beach sometimes we can see a kind of creature that looks like something transparent. They are the jelly fish that might have been brought on shore by the huge waves of the sea. Kids are often very curious to know more about these sea creatures mostly because the kids […]
The Fish Which Changes From Female To Male
There is a fish called the blackspot angelfish, which can change from female to male. No, it cannot do it by simply wishing to become male. The change happens for a specific reason. The angel fish live in groups. And each group has one male fish, which is blue in colour, and four female fish, […]
Ice-Cream
Ice-Cream Ice-Cream ‘Ice-cream’ is an all time-favourite with one and all. Have you ever wondered where this fabulous dessert came from? Ice-cream originated in China. The great explorer, Marco Polo was responsible for taking it to Italy nearly 700 years ago. He was on a trading expedition to China in 1271, when he happened to […]
Chocolate Facts!
Chocolate Facts! Chocolates are always favourite with kids. Kids can indulge themselves in chocolates anytime. Now here are some interesting facts for the kids about chocolates. Chocolate is actually obtained from the cacao tree, which is 12 meters high and bears small pinkish flowers that grow into pods, and each pod produces 20 to 40 […]