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How fish swim

Posted by: Hilary on: June 22, 2010

Nobody can swim like a fish. But how fish swim? Many fishes swim by contracting and relaxing a succession of muscle blocks, called myomeres, alternately on each side of the body, starting at the head and progressing down toward the tail. The alternate shortening and relaxing of successive muscle blocks, which bends part of the [...]

What Earthquake Is

Posted by: Hilary on: February 28, 2010

Why and what earthquake is? Many people living around the world have at one time or another experienced an earthquake. Most earthquakes occur as the result of slowly accumulating pressure that causes the ground to slip abruptly along a geological fault plane on or near a plate boundary. The resulting waves of vibration within the [...]

How Birds Fly

Posted by: Hilary on: February 2, 2010

No wonder that creating airplanes man watched birds trying to find the secret of their fly. As the wings move through the air (blue lines), the special airfoil shape of the wings causes the air pressure above the wings to be lower than the pressure underneath. The difference in pressure is lift, a force that [...]

Why Does The Wind Blow?

Posted by: Hilary on: October 23, 2009

Wind is simply moving air. If there wasn’t any wind, weather reports wouldn’t be very interesting, as there would be little change in day-today weather. Wind is produced by pressure differences. In this activity, students will produce a region of high pressure and then see how this high pressure causes air to flow to a [...]

Different Kind of Fruits

Posted by: Hilary on: September 19, 2009

Learning different kind of fruits together with your kids you can also try to make your kids eat more fruits and vegetables. Besodes that this is good idea to mix fruit juice with different kind of fruits and add a little ice cube put them in the blender to make smoothies. Sometime it’s easier to [...]