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I have always been fascinated by the research being done in various fields around the world. If you look in the right places on the Internet you can discover a wealth of current information released by scientists on virtually any topic from medicine, space, business, physics, technology, behavior and even archeology.
Easy to understand science for kids is a fairly new approach, but there is an amazing pool of information out there that will address the thirst of knowledge in your children and may even entertain yourself. Here are a few sites you should visit once in a while.
Ok, we got it. YouTube and Addicting Games look much more interesting to our children than any sophisticated study guide we parents can get excited about. Personally, I have to admit that it is tough keeping an eye on my children while they are on the Internet, even with fancy parental control software, which, let’s be serious, does not work that well.
But there are websites out there that may be interesting to both you and your children, and sites that deliver education and entertainment. If your children get excited about numbers and facts, exploring nature and learn through experiments, you may want to check science news websites for kids.
I recently saw on Eurekalert, which is a huge website that publishes press releases from universities around the globe, a Kids section with some simple, but fascinating articles that, at the very least, would serve as interesting discussion topics you can bring up now and then.
Here’s an example: How long would you think does it take to turn thought into speech? Scientists from the University of California, San Diego and Harvard recently had a chance to measure that time in patients with epilepsy undergo surgery in which electrodes are implanted in parts of their brains, in order to treat their seizures. The patients were asked to think of a single word, changing it from one tense to another (if it was a verb) or from single to plural (if was a noun), and then saying the word silently to themselves. The whole process was measured through electrical activity in the brain and the scientists concluded that it takes humans about 600 milliseconds to turn thought into speech.
You can read more about Eurekalert’s Science Reporting for Kids here. Other science websites for kids we recommend are:
News for Kids at ScienceNews
ScienceNews for Kids
National Geographic Kids
HighBeam Science News Kids
Yahoo Kids
Enjoy!
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