Category: Kids News

Map Reading Week begins today. Paper maps and atlases are fascinating, and it’s important to learn how to read them. Which direction is North? What’s that squiggly blue line? Can you find your country on a world map, or your street on a city map? Get a trail map, and take a hike!

Did you ever try to make your hair stand straight up, for Crazy Hair Day at school? Joe Grisamore could give you a few pointers. The Minnesota man captured the world record, for the tallest spike Mohawk. His hair stood tall, at 50.9 inches. He’d have to walk through doorways, on his knees!

Scientists discovered an interesting way, that monkeys try to blend in with their neighbors. They pick up their accents! White pied tamarins and red-handed tamarins speak the same language, like the British and Americans, but their calls have differing frequencies and durations. When the different species want to communicate, they adjust their calls.

Today is Mount Everest Day, celebrating the tallest mountain in the world. Reaching an elevation of 20,031 feet above sea level, it’s part of the Himalayas, on the border between China and Nepal. 68 years ago, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary were the first people we know of, to climb to the top.

Today is Biscuit Day. You could eat a biscuit in Ireland that’s known as a cookie elsewhere, or eat fluffy biscuits with gravy in the United States. I’m going to eat both! Then, make a paper clip necklace to celebrate Paper Clip Day. A piece of bent wire can sure be useful!

Today is Put A Pillow On Your Fridge Day. No-no, don’t take a nap up there! It’s supposed to bring good luck and prosperity. Clean the top of your fridge while you’re up there! Then clean the inside, and put the leftovers in a compost pile, since it’s also Learn About Composting Day.

Gardener Solomon Leyva, is sharing his prized flower with the public, at an abandoned California gas station. It’s a corpse flower that blooms once every 7 years, and smells like rotting flesh! The 8-foot tall flower only lasts 48 hours, and opens at night. 1400 people have visited the Titan Arum, and marveled over the awful stench!

A man in England stepped in to give some swan parents a helping hand, when he saw them build their nest in a bad spot. Rob Adamson knew from experience, that the location would flood and destroy the eggs, so he carefully placed the whole nest on a raft. 9 baby swans will thank him!

A new study reveals how fossils from animals in South America, ended up in the Antilles Islands in Central America. Apparently, there were land masses that disappeared into the ocean. Shifting tectonic plates, and shifting glaciers, could have provided land bridges for wildlife to travel over, as opposed to swimming across the Caribbean Sea.

John Bozinov leads Polar tours, through Antarctica’s Ross Sea. A bold penguin must have wanted to see what everyone was looking at, because he jumped onto the tourist boat, to enjoy the view above the water. He stayed aboard for 10 minutes, riding alongside the passengers, and giving them a firsthand look at local wildlife.