It’s fun to play true/false games to: 1. test understanding 2. help with absorption and memory recall. True/false questions are quick and engaging – any misunderstandings can also be quickly corrected on the spot. Here I’ve used red cards for false and green cards for true.
Parents can continuously engage their child by asking questions, like – Why do I bag my meat and fish in a zip-lock bag before I put them in the freezer? – What do you think happens if I don’t add baking powder in my cakes? – Do you think crushed ice cools down a drink[…]
The inner core of the Earth is not molten. It is actually a solid core of mostly Nickel and Iron, and is roughly 1200km in diameter! The inner core of the Earth also contains much gold, platinum and other precious metals. Unfortunately there isn’t a way to get to it yet.
It is not true that different sections of the tongue are exclusively responsible for different basic tastes. This is a misconception that has persisted since 1901 and has been illustrated with a schematic map of the tongue, with certain parts of the tongue labeled for each taste. Although widely taught in schools, this was scientifically[…]
There are two main groups of bats – Megachiroptera and Microchiroptera. The Megachiroptera are medium-sized to large bats that eat fruits, nectar, and sometimes small animals or fish. These species have pronounced visual centers and big eyes as they use senses of vision and smell to capture their prey. For example, Flying Foxes are able[…]
Space is not devoid of gravity. Gravity keeps all the stars orbiting around the center of the galaxy and all the planets in the solar system orbiting around the sun.
Stars appear to twinkle because we view them through our atmosphere. The light rays get refracted by the miles of air in our atmosphere, and random pockets of cold / warm air causes the light rays to shift in random patterns – so the point-like light sources seem to twinkle. Stars (except for the Sun)[…]
The Leidenfrost effect is a phenomenon in which a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid’s boiling point, produces an insulating vapor layer keeping that liquid from boiling rapidly. This is most commonly seen when cooking; one sprinkles drops of water in a pan to gauge its temperature: if the[…]