Kids wisdom

Amazing things

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 07:03:00 +0000

There are 2 billion bacteria in just one teaspoon of soil and millions more fungi, protozoa and algae.
Bamboo can grow three feet in just one day.

A cricket crawls toward the leaves of a Venus flytrap that can shut tight, trapping the insect.

There are over 500 types of meat eating plants growing in the world.
Bees use a special dance to tell other bees where to find flower. That dance is called Waggle dancing.
Beetles are popular pets in Japan.

Wat Pa Maha temple in Thailand made of glass bottles

Wat Pa Maha temple in Thailand is made over one million bottles.
Scientists believe they have identified a flower that is 120 million years old.

Leefructus

Save the Whales

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 06:42:00 +0000

Whales are the largest animals that have ever lived on earth - even larger than dinosaurs. Unfortunately, now they are in danger of becoming extinct. These magnificent creatures are threatened by whaling, garbage, chemicals, noise, fishing lines and more.

Did you know?

Whales are mammals, which means they are warm blooded and breathe air like us although they live in water.
A whale's nose is on the top of its head and is called a blowhole. A single breathe from a blue whale can inflate 2000 balloons! Isn't it amazing?
The largest whales are blue whales. In fact, they are the largest creature ever to live on Earth.
Ten whale species are on the endangered list, including the baleen, blue, and right whales.

Saving whales

Greenpeace is an organisation that has been saving whales over 30 years. They can show you how to write letters to newspapers and how to help get people to pay attention to whales problems http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/oceans/whaling/

Answer it!

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Tue, 10 May 2011 12:01:00 +0000

Where would you find the Bad lands?
What is called 'Whispering bells'?
What is Vihuela?
What is the capital of Bahama Islands?
BIMSTEC stands for?
Where is Transylvania?
What was the peculiar feature of the Royalists?
In music, what does polytonality mean?
Name the first American to win the Nobel prize for literature.
Name the renowned American novelist who wrote ' The great gatsby'.

Answers:

In South dakota, USA
Plants of the water leaf family, 8 to 14 inches high.
A spanish musical instrument.
Nassau
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Srilanka and Thailand council for Economic Co-operation.
The western part of Rumania.
They wore ringlets.
Simultaneous use of several keys.
Sinclair Lewis.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Protect trees - Bed time story

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Fri, 06 May 2011 11:14:00 +0000

Raman was an young boy. He used to go to forest daily and bring firewood and sell it. He was cutting trees to make them firewood. He never knew that trees are valuable and they are not to be cut.

One day he was cutting a branch of a tree. the branch was about to fall into the river. At that moment a cheetah appeared near the tree. He was hungry. he saw raman. He wanted to eat him away. He atarted climbing the tree. the boy feared. Below was a big tree. He was not knowing how to swim. The cheetah didnt wait. He climbed the tree. The boy decided to fall into the river. However there was a branch being cut. He felt that he would float on the branch of the tree and escape from the cruel cheetah.

The cheetah was nearing him. Raman took his axe and cut the branch with force. The branch fell into the river. But Raman was holding it. The branch took him away and enabled him to escape from the cheetah. Raman went too far along with the branch. Finally he reached the bank of the river.

Raman thanked the branch. The tree had saved him from danger. Raman decided not to cut the trees from then onwards. He started loving the trees which had saved him. he planted samplings in the places which he had cut the trees. He stopped selling firewood. Instead he joined a factory to do hardwork.

The 21 jewel chests - Twist your Brain

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Tue, 03 May 2011 11:53:00 +0000

Puzzle:

A wealthy King divided his riches between three sons. He said, "I have 21 identical, equally large chests - seven of them are completely filled with gold coins, seven are half-filled with gold coins and seven are empty. Can you divide these 21 chests among yourselves without taking the gold coins out of them, so that you all have the same number of gold coins and the same number of chests?"

Answer:

Each son recieves three and a half chest worth of gold as follows:

One full chest, five half full chests and one empty chest.

Three full chests, one half full chest, and three empty chests.

Three full chest, one half full chest and three empty chests.

The rats and the cat - Bed time story

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:42:00 +0000

Many rats were living in a hole near a house. They were getting food daily. They were all happy. One night a cat entered the hole and attacked all the rats. all the rats went out running thay all feared. But some how the cat catched one small rat. The cat took it and ate it. Next day the mother rat was caught. The other rats started to worry.

They assembled at one place and discussed the matter. One fatty rat suggested, " We are all independent. then how can we accept our defeat? We have to be free from our enemy. let us put him to death."

Then a small rat got up and said, " Its not so easy. The cats are powerful. They catch us and kill. the easy way is to escape from it. But we have to know is arrival. So let all of us find him and tie a bell in his neck. When the cat comes we can come to know as the bell will ring and we all can escape."

The suggestion was accepted. But an old rat said, " Its alright. But who is to bell the cat?" No rat ca me forward to tie bell to the cat. The suggestion failed. Next suggestion came. A wounded rat got up and informed, "My dear friends, tomorrow when cat arrives let us all fall on it and put him to death.

All the rats agreed. Next day they waited the cat entered the hole in the night. the rats bit the cat with their sharp teeth. The cat died. All the rats were happy. then the wounded rat boosted, "Actually I killed the rat. because I gave you the suggestion. Otherwise you would not have killed it".

The other rats didn't agree. Each one boasted. they quaralled with each other. They envied each other thereby. All are seperated. They started wandering alone.

A few days passed. Another cat entered the hole. He started eating rats one by one. In a short period all the rats found dead.

Moral of the story:

Unity is strength. If it is lost suffering do occur.

Fun facts about the Dinosaur group

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:27:00 +0000

Tyrannosaurus rex means 'King of the tyrant lizards'.
Brachiosaurus means 'Arm lizard'.
Maiasaura means 'Good mother lizard'.
Ankylosaurus means 'Stiff or fused lizard'.
Triceratops means 'Three horns on the face'.
Stegosaurus means 'Roof lizard'.
Deinonychus means 'Terrible caw'
Ornithomimus means 'Like an ostrich'.
Parasaurolophus means 'Beside ridged lizard'.
Compsognathus means 'Elegant jaw'.

The first Antiseptics

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:57:00 +0000

In 1853, an English sugeon named Joseph Lister observed that almost half of the patients on whom he performed amputations died of dreadful infections. Standards of hygine in operating theatres at this time were so bad that to be taken to hospital was almost a death sentence. Lister developed a system of cleaning everything that came into contact with a patients wounds with an 'antiseptic' called carbolic acid. He was able to prove that this method destroyed germs and greatly reduced infection.

The first Antibiotics

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:51:00 +0000

Ancient egyptians used mouldy bread to prevent wounds becoming infected. This is not as strange an idea as it sounds. In 1928, Scottish Professor Alexander Fleming was clearing out his laboratory when he noticed a dish of bacteria had become contaminated by a mould called Pencillium notatum. he observed that the bacteria had been killed where they had come into contact with the mould. after refiinement, the mould became the first antibiotic wonder-drug, now known as 'Pencillin'.

The most useful flags

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:51:00 +0000

In the time before radio communication and mobile phones, issuing urgent orders within the navy was very difficult. It was fine to shout loud enough for the seamen on your own ship to hear, but communicating with other ships while under attack was almost impossible.

In 1800, Sir Home Riggs Popham, a rear admiral, came up with a clever way of signalling to other ships. he devised a code which involved hoisting flags, each with a differently coloured design. the code was known as Telegraphic Signals of Marine Vocabulary.

The tallest flagpole toppled by Birds

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:39:00 +0000

The tallest flagpole to be toppled by birds is a massive wooden structurre that originally stood in kew Gardens in London, england. when it was first constructed in 1959, the mole measured 69 metres tall, which made it the world's tallest flagpole at the time. Since then it has been shortened a number of times to make it safe. Then, in august 2007, the pole was taken down because it had become too dangerous to raise a flag. woodpeckars had damaged it making the pole unsafe.

Today, the tallest flagpoles dont have this problem. They are made of metal, which would give a curious woodpeckar a heck of a headache.

India Leads Top in...

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:53:00 +0000

World's cheapest car is produced in India - Nano by Tata Motors.
World's first airmail system - between Allahabad and Nainital(1911)
World's first fingerprint bureau - kolkata(1897)
World's first muslim judge of an apex court - Justice Fathima Beevi, Supreme court of India
World's first country to aopt Family Planning (1952)
World's first woman airmarshal - Padma Bandopadhyaya, Indian air Force (2004).
`World's first woman president of UN General Assembly - Vijayalakshmi Pandit (1953).
World's highest airport - Leh (Ladakh)
World's highest ATM - SBI ATM at Ladakh (12000) feet.
World's highest battlefield - Saichen.

Learn about Rubber Bands

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 05:01:00 +0000

One of the most commonly used things in any house-hold in any part of the world is, the rubber band. The rubber band was firsr made in London in 1823 by Sir Thomas Hancock. Since then, there have been many improvemnts in the quality of the rubber band and it has come to be adjudged as one of the most important inventions of the 20th century.

Even though the rubber band is used extensilvely as a packing aid, some people hit upon the idea of making a rubber ball by simply stretching rubber bands, one over the other. The world record ( as recognised by Guinness Book) is held by John Bane of Wilmington, Delaware, USA. Here are the statistics of the biggest rubber band ball in the world.

Weight - 2800 lbs

Height - 5 feet

Diameter - 15 feet

Time taken - 4 years, 2 months

Number of rubber bands used - 5 lakh, 50 thousand

cost - 12,000 dollars

Why does a rubber ball bounce?

Rubber is viscoelastic material which means it is both viscous and elastic. Rubber is characterized by its resilence - if you drop it from a height of 1 metre, then it will bounce back to 0.5 to 0.7 metre depending on the rubber type and resilence value. Higher the resilence, higher is the bounce which means higher elasticity and lesser viscosity.

Generally, butadiene rubber has higher resilence property, followed by natural rubber. Due to this resilence property of rubber, it is used in tyres, etc.

Calculating age of a tree

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:56:00 +0000

How to determine the age of a tree?

If you come across a timber depot, stop a bit and look closely at the cross-section of a tree trunk. You will observe a series of concentric circle. these circles indicate the age of a tree.

How does it happen?

When a tree grows, two types of layers grow around its trunk every year, one soft, the other hard. These layers grow around in circles. External factors such as extreme cold, heat, famine, excessive rain etc., determine the shape, size, and thickness of the layers. Since this takes place once every year, the age of the tree can easily be calculated.

Do you Know?

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:31:00 +0000

Glutinous sticky rice cements were used in ancient chineese historic buildings that even bulldozer could do nothing in it.
To avoid your great ideas from sinking Aquanotes (myaquanotes.com) has created a pad of waterproof paper with suction caps and a penci that works in all conditions.
Blind people learn the Braille alphabet.
Plankton are the small water animals that feed on tiny plants and animals.
Spinneret is the scientific name for the spinning tubes of a spider.
Convex mirror is used in a motor vehicle to see the traffic behind it.
Kabuki is the Japanese class of drama performed solely by men and characterised by elaborate scenery and heavy make-up.
France is the country that does not have mosquitoes.

Vocabulary Games

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 04:29:00 +0000

Questions

Write down the word starting with 'Q' and ending with a duality of consecutive double vowels. It has 5 letters in all. Q _ _ _ _.
A word starts with 'D' and ends with 'S'. In all i has 5 S's. It comprises 10 leters. Find out the word.
Mention the shortest word begining with double vowels by choosing the right option given here: AA, EE, II, OO, UU
A word comprises 10 letters. It contains 3 sets of consecutive double letters. If the first letter of the word is 'B' and the last letter is 'R', find the word.

Answers

QUEUE
DISPOSSESS
EEL
BOOK KEEPER

Vocabulary games by
P. Malathi
Lect. in english
Mahendra arts & science,
Tamilnadu,
India

Word history

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:46:00 +0000

Tortilla meaning a thin , round, flat bread made from water and cornmeal: This word comes from mexico. In spanish, the word tortilla means "little round cakes".
Travel means to go from one place to another or make a trip: This word comes from a similar English word that means " to work hard or labour". This word came from an old french word meaning both "to labour" and 'to journey". the meaning of travel became limited to the work of getting from one place to another.
Truce meaning a short stop in fighting; This word comes from a Middle English word meaning "agreement". the middle English word comes from an Old English word meaning, "true" or "faithful". in a truce, both sides must be faithful to their agreement.
Tuesday meaning the third day of the week: This word comes from the old english word meaning "Twi's day". Tiw was the pagan English God of war.
Typhoon meaning a tropical storm with violent winds. Typhoons occur in the western Pacific ocean. This word is derived from two words in the chinese language that mean "great wind".

Chocolate Biscuits

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:37:00 +0000

A simple recipe cum a project for yourself to make chocoalte biscuits which experiments the theory:

" Although water goes through phase changes, it is always water. The chemical make-up of water does not change whether it is solid, liquid or a gas."

Steps

When chocolate is heated, it melts and becomes liquid. When it cools, it becomes solid again. Break some chocolate into pieces and put them in a heat-proof bowl. Put the bowl into a saucepan one third filled with water.
Put the sacepan on a low heat and stirthe chocolate until it melts.
Pour melted chocolate onto some biscuits.
leave them to cool and the chocolate will become solid.

So Kids, Try out to check if theory works....

Knowledge about Sugar and Chocolate

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:14:00 +0000

Kids, Do you know that sugar and chocolate come from plants? Look out how?

Sugar

Sugar comes from Sugar cane and Sugarbeet plants. See how.

From Sugarcane

Sugarcane

The tall canes are cut down and taken to factory called sugar mill. There they are shredded and crushed between rollers that squeeze out the juice. The juice is then boiled with lime. This gets rid of the unwanted bits in the juice. It is then boiled to make syrup and small lumps of sugar crystals. A centrifuge seprates the brown crystals from the syrup. The crystals are taken to other countries and refined into white sugar.

From Sugarbeet

Sugarbeet

Sugar beets grow in cooler places. the leaves are removed, and the plants are taken to a factory. There they are washed, sliced and spun in hot water. The sugar then passes out into the water. This is boiled and treated then like cane juice.

Making white sugar

Brown sugar crysals are made into white sugar after refinery. The crystals are put in a pan and covered in dried molasses. The molasses is melted in warm syrup. A centrifuge separates this from the crystals. The crystals are dissolved in waer. The unwanted parts are removed, and they turn white. The syrup is cooked in a closed pan. Crystals are then added. This makes white sugar form. It is removed and dried. It is poured into packets.

Chocolate

Cocoa tree

Chocolates are made using cocoa trees that grow in South America and Africa. The cocoa beans grow in large pods and are picked when they are nicely ripen. Each pod contains about 40 beans. The beans are left under damp banana leaves for 6 days, to give them a nice taste.

Then they are dried in sun, put in sacks and taken to abroad factories through ships. There the beans are cleaned and roasted. The insides are removed and ground to paste. Cocoa butter is squeezed out of the cocoa paste.

Cocoa butter, cocoa paste, sugar and fat are made into liquid chocolate and poured out in desired moulds to form tasty chocolates.

cocoa pod with beans inside

Maths Quiz

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:51:00 +0000

Problem 1

A group of visitors visited me. The group was made up of 2 mothers, 2 daughters, 1 grandmother and 1 granddaughter. They were all at my house at the same time and yet I did not have 6 visitors. How many visitors did I have?

Problem 2

What are the next two numbers in the series?
1, 4, 13, 28, 49, ?, ?

Problem 3

Find the next 2 letters in this game series:

N, T, J, Q, ?, ?

Problem 4

A teacher asked the class to write down 5 odd digits that could add up to 14. Only one of them did it. What didi he write?

Problem 5

Think of a number. Add the next larger number. Add 9. Divide by 2. Subtract tthe original number. Is the answer 5?

Answers

5. The answer is 5

4. 11+1+1+1 = 14

3. K, A
   (Nine, Ten, Jack, Queen, King, Ace)

2. 76 and 109
    The difference between successive numbers increased by 6 each time.
    4 - 1 = 3, 3 + 6 = 9, 9 + 4 = 13
    13 - 4 = 9, 9 - 6 = 15, 15 + 13 = 28
    28 - 13 = 15, 15 = 6 = =21, 21 + 28 = 49
   49 + 28 = 21, 21 + 6 = 27, 27 + 49 = 76
    76 - 49 = 27, 27 +6 = 33, 33 + 76 = 109

Do you Know? - Masskara Festival

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:36:00 +0000

Festival of Masks

Masskara festival in Bacolod city, Negros Occidental in The Philippines is Bacolod's version of Mardi Gras celebrated in october. The week long celebration kicks off with mask-making contests, food fairs, brass band competitions, beauty and alent pageants, a windsurfing regatta, drinking and eating contests, trade fairs and lots of exhibits. The highest of the festivities is a parade with street dancers in vibrant masks and colourful costumes.

The symbol of the festival - a smiling mask was adopted to signify the happy spirit of the region, in spite of periodic economic downturns in the sugar industry in 1980.

Symbol of Masskara festival

The word masskara was coined from two word 'mass' meaning multitude of people and the spanish word 'kara' meaning face, thus denoting multitude of smiling faces.

smiling kara

Do you know "The story of begining of English" ?

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:22:00 +0000

Up until about 1,500 years ago, the people who lived in British Isles (group of Islands) did not speak English. They were called Celts and spoke a language called Celtic, which totally was different from English.

Then about the year 450, the land of Celts was invaded by three tribes from a place that is now the country of Germany, in northern Europe. These tribes were Angles, Saxons and the Jutes. These tribes fought a war with Celtic people. The Celts lost the war, and they had to leave England and move to other parts of british Isles. Today only few people in the British Isles speak Celtic language, and there are almost no words in English that come from Celtic.

The Angles, Saxons and Jutes all spoke the same language, but in slightly different ways as they had settled in different parts of germany. Once they had settled in England all the tribes began to speak the same way. this new language came to be known as English, after the tribe called the Angles as they were in majority.

Word History

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:15:00 +0000

Alabama meaning - A state in the southwestern United States and capital being Montgomery: This name comes from two Indian words that mean "people who gather plants' or "people who clear land". The words were first used as the name of an Indian tribe that lived near the Alabama river. The tribe's name was used for the river, and the state of Alabama was later named for the river.
Alaska meaning - It is the largest state of United States. It is located in the northwestern part of North America, its capital being Juneau: This name comes from an Eskimo word meaning "mainland. The Eskimo who named Alska lived on islands off of its coast.
Alibi meaning a claim or proof that one was somewhere else when a crime was committed: This word comes from Latin word that means "somewhere else". Persons accused of a crime would try to prove that they were in another place at the time of crime. the claim or proof that a person was somewhere else became known as an 'alibi'.

Who is Robert Koch?

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:44:00 +0000

Robert Koch (1843-1910) was a bacteriologist. He identified the bacillus that caused the scourge of tuberculosis. He discovered the tubercular bacillus which enabled to cure T. B. patients. He won the Nobel prize for medicine in 1905. He was already renowned for his discoveries in the field of anthrax, cholera, sleeping sickness and bubonic plague.

How Micky Mouse came?

noreply@blogger.com (Hamsamalini Chandrasekaran) — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:39:00 +0000

Walt Disney (1901 - 1966) was a classic cim three years artoon film maker. The well loved mouse was the most famous of Disney's cartoon characters. It is only rivaled by Donald duck. Both micky mouse and Donald duck were immortalised by Disney in the disneyland theme park in California in U.S. Disney experimented initially in the animated cartoons. Then he made his first successful sound picture. Steam boat Willie was the famous sound picture made in 1928. Then Disney continued making full length cartoon classics.

Walt Disney released in 1938 was his first full length cartoon feature. Snow white and the seven dwarfs which took him three years to complete the film. It was popular and musical. When we talk of comic cartoons we remember comic films also. Stain Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957) were the comic actors of yester years. they rate as one of the funniest and most enduring of comic partnership. They joined forces in the 1920's and made a host of comic films. Actually they made 4 films in 1928 alone.