Children’s / Teenage general interest: Physical world

Do you want to experience what it's like to chart new territory and survive the unexpected?

Are you fascinated by wide open spaces and like NOT knowing where a path might lead?

Do you want to be your own naturalist and watch animals out there where they belong?

What happens when you find yourself stranded in the big outdoors, without a phone or computer in sight?

Every day, people on Earth use about 90 million barrels of petroleum (oil and natural gas) to fuel cars, buses, airplanes, farm equipment, and factories; to heat their homes; and to manufacture detergents, paints, plastics, and countless other products.

Where is the Solar System's biggest mountain?

Math is everywhere when it comes to the weather!

South America is a remarkable continent, with its lush Amazon rain forest and its vibrant cities.

North America is an incredible continent, stretching from the polar ice cap almost to the equator.

Europe is a marvelous continent, made up of about fifty countries.

Australia is the smallest continent, known for having the largest coral reef in the world.

Asia is the world's largest continent, both in land area and in population.

Antarctica is a fascinating continent, with its South Pole research station and its thick sheets of ice.

Africa is an amazing continent, with its vast array of wildlife and its ancient monuments.

Water is essential to life on our planet.

Most people are familiar with spring, summer, fall, and winter.

Igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, and metamorphic rocks make up the three main types of rocks.

Discover the inspiring true story of Isatou Ceesay, an African woman who started a recycling movement to combat the pollution caused by plastic bags in her community.

A rock is a rock, part of cliff, road or sea.

Do you want to be your own naturalist and watch animals out there where they belong?

What happens when you find yourself stranded in the big outdoors, without a phone or computer in sight?

Do you want to experience what it's like to chart new territory and survive the unexpected?

Are you fascinated by wide open spaces and like NOT knowing where a path might lead?

Are you curious about fire trucks?

As the planet's human population explodes, so does the demand for water.

Discover the inspiring true story of Isatou Ceesay, an African woman who started a recycling movement to combat the pollution caused by plastic bags in her community.

A rock is a rock, part of cliff, road or sea.

Do you enjoy snapping photos or taking movies of your adventures?

How did our knowledge of Earth's systems, cycles, and resources develop?

Wind is moving air.

The sun glows and glimmers.

Snow swoops and swirls.

Plip!

Clouds drift and float.

Plastic: it's used to make everything from drink bottles and bags to toys and toothbrushes.

Did you know that about 40 percent of the world's population lives without toilets?

After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion in Ukraine, scientists believed radiation had created a vast and barren wasteland in which life could never resurface.

Ice in the Arctic is disappearing-and opportunity is calling.

It's fun to jump in puddles in spring, eat ice cream in summer, pick apples in fall, and build snowmen in winter.

Is planet Earth flat?

Robots help us understand our weather and climate.

Is it rainy?

What are tornadoes?

Why is it hot in one part of the world and chilly in another?

What does it mean to forecast the weather?

What heats our planet?

Why is it sunny outside one day and rainy the next?

Quick!

Did you know that the same wind that messes up your hair can be used to create energy?

Did you know that the sunlight that warms your skin on a sunny day can be used to produce energy?