Science for kids

• You can listen to thunder after lightening and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don’t hear it, you got hit, so never mind.
• Talc is found on rocks and on babies.
• The law of gravity says its not fair jumping up without coming back down.
• Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
• Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction.
• A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go.
• Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil.
• Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don’t why you should.
• Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they’re there.
• Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so sometimes it’s brother against brother.
• We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on.
• To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up.
• In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H’s as O’s.
• I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing.
• Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a drop, it does.
• Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water. We keep track of the humidity in the air so we won’t drown when we breathe.
• Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dogs tongue will kill the strongest man.
• Thunder is a rich source of loudness.
• Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound.
• It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other places.
• The wind is like the air, only pushier.