Author: Kinooze Learning
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Inca – The Ancient Civilization
Inca was an ancient civilization that ruled a part of South America in the 1400’s, almost 600 years ago. Incans called themselves the “Children of the Sun”. Inca were fierce warriors. They ruled Peru and large parts of modern Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia when their civilization was the strongest. Incans lived in the mountain peaks of Andes…
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What If?
Another post by Rhea, who is only seven years of age, but how come she is as wise as a sage? What if keys did not open locks, What if time did not follow clocks. What if fishes were tiles, What if inches were miles. What if honey made bees, What if we bathed in…
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Dolphin ‘Super pod’ Spotted
A group of thousands of dolphins were spotted taking a swim together off the coast of San Diego, California. Dolphins are social animals that usually stay in groups of dozens known as pods. But once in a while, when there is abundance of food in an area, many pods merge together make a ‘super pod’.…
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Sally And Her Determination
(This inspirational story is written by our little reader Sravya, who is seven years old) Once upon a time a girl named Sally lived in Gurgaon, India. Her sports day was just a day away and she was very excited! On her sports day there were almost fifty children participating from her and another school.…
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What is Liberty?
What does liberty mean? Why do people care about it so much? Is it really that important? To answer all these questions we have to understand that all men are created equal and born free. Liberty means that we decide many things about our lives. In other words, people have freedom to rule themselves. That means people…
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Raising an Indian Kid Abroad
This is a guest post by Swati Gupta. Swati was a computer professional before she left her promising career to devote quality time to her little one. Today, she is a full time, busy mother of two wonderful kids. When we were moving to US, one of the things at back of my mind was how would my 18…
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Shoe or a Phone?
Ever seen a shoe that is also a phone? The shoe phone can call, text or vibrate. Shoe designer Sean Miles of Designworks company in partnership with O2 Recycling company have created a new way to recycle an old phone – by putting it under the sole of a regular looking shoe so it can…
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Ice Water Steam
The water that you guzzle, the ice that you pause to crunch while drinking your juice or the fumes that come out of water while you lay in a tub of hot water are all water in different forms. But why does water have different forms? Well you see water is matter. Matter is anything that…
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Self-driving cars?
A group of engineers and researchers in UK, are working towards developing self driving cars. These cars would be capable of driving themselves on familiar routes while on unfamiliar routes manual control will be necessary. Such cars would use lasers and small cameras to remember the route frequently taken like trip to office or school. In…
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The Golden Touch
Long time ago in ancient Greece, there lived a king named Midas (pronounced mahy-duh-s) who ruled the Greek kingdom of Phrygia. He was a good king and looked after his people well. King Midas had one thing peculiar about him -he loved gold. He was a rich king and had plenty of gold. His palace was made of gold. So much…
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Rocks In the Sky
Did you know that there are rocks floating in the outer space? Some are as tiny as a dust grain and others may be as big as a small planet. The smaller rocks are called meteoroids. We have a special name for the bigger rocks: they are called asteroids. The biggest asteroid that we know about is called Ceres.…
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Clean-up in Meteorite-hit Urals Begin
Russian authorities have sent a clean up and a rescue team to the meteorite struck area. The rescue team consists of 20,000 workers. On friday balls of fire descended as the meteor landed in a lake near a town called Chebarkul. Almost 12,000 people were injured as the glass from the windows was shattered and hurt…