Children’s / Teenage general interest: Physical world

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?

Did you know that tiny atoms that make up all matter hold huge amounts of energy?

Did you know people can turn the energy in rushing water into electricity?

Did you know people can dig underground and use Earth's heat to make energy?

Did you know that most of the energy we use comes from coal, oil, and natural gas?

Water is water, puddle, pond, sea.

How do you organize a big project?

What steps can you take to help the environment?

Huge, towering clouds build up in the sky-it's a super cell.

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

Water is water, puddle, pond, sea.

Earthquakes.

Imagine a peaceful voyage at sea, with puffy clouds overhead and the gentle rise and fall of the waves.

Would you eat a giant spider?

Do you have what it takes to survive in some of the world's coldest places?

Wild animals are often cute.

Most people don't have to worry about being buried alive or falling into a sinkhole.

Have you ever wished you could use technology to improve people's lives?

Do you spend hours tinkering with projects?

Trying to breeze through weather and climate facts just might cause a brain freeze!

The enormous facts about our solar system can make your head spin!

The facts about natural disasters are so big and devastating they could make your head explode!

Follow along as a boy makes a map of places to see on a trip to Texas.

Watch as a boy makes map of his room to show his friend the location of the supplies he'll need to care of the boy's hamster while the family goes on vacation.

Come along as a girl maps her neighborhood to show her visiting grandmother where everything is.

See how a boy makes a map of his home showing fire escape routes.