by Valeria M. Paz | May 18, 2024 | Animals
← back Seahorses: tiny treasures of the sea Seahorses are fish that look like tiny horses with curled tails. They have a little fin on their back that lets them swim forward, backwards, up, and down. This fin can beat 50 times per second, but it’s so small that...
by Valeria M. Paz | May 11, 2024 | History, Science
← back Louis Pasteur: the man who made milk safe to drink Louis Pasteur lived from 1822 to 1895. He was born in France. Only 200 years ago, people didn’t know what made foods go bad or made them sick. That was until a French scientist, Louis Pasteur, proved that...
by Valeria M. Paz | May 8, 2024 | History, Science
← back Discovering cheese: a tasty accident! Cheese was discovered by accident Scientists think cheese was discovered at least 3,000 years ago, because they found crumbs inside Egyptian tombs. No one knows who invented cheese, but one legend tells of an Arabian...
by Valeria M. Paz | Apr 23, 2024 | Animals, History
← back 1 sheep, 2 sheep, 3 sheep: how we turn wool into clothes Just like we wear sweaters in winter, sheep have fluffy coats to keep them comfy. Long ago, farmers noticed that sheep dropped some of their wool, and they had a clever idea. They started picking the wool...
by Valeria M. Paz | Apr 6, 2024 | History
← back Igloos: the snow homes of the Inuit When the only thing around is snow… In the land of ice and snow, way up in the Arctic, live the Inuit people. Most of the year, the ground lays frozen under a blanket of frost, without a tree or rock in sight. Until the last...
