How do you go to school? You take a bus, a car, a bike or you walk. But the students in a remote area of Colombia uses zip line to reach school. Very young kids travel along the cable with their parents or older sibling. The only other way of reaching the school is a…
Can you imagine a school on the boat? In Bangladesh, there is not 1 but around 100 boat schools. In Bangladesh, it rains heavily from July to October. During such heavy rains, when the schools on land cannot be reached, the boat schools help students study without any break. All of the boat schools have internet…
There is a school in Asia called Bottle School. It is made of bottles. Each bottle was filled with sand, water and straw to keep them from falling. Then, a cement-like substance was used to hold the bottles in place as they were put on top of each other to create walls.
The largest school in the world is The City Montessori School in Lucknow. All the students dislike homework but every student has to do it. The students in China get the most homework in the world. Turin has the smallest school in the world with only one student and one teacher.
Popsicle or ice candy was accidentally invented by an 11-year-old kid. The child left a mixture of soda and water outside in a cup overnight. Because of the cold weather, it froze by the morning and he ate it. Popsicle was first called ‘Epsicle’ as the child’s last name was Epperson. After many years when…
All the products that you buy have an expiry date. But there is one product which has no expiry date, which means that it does not spoil. Yes, we are talking about honey. Honey never spoils. The pots of honey which is from thousands of years ago still looks fresh. Salt, sugar and raw rice also…
In olden days artists used ashes, red clay and colours from plants to paint. Even today you can use natural colours. Natural soil for brown colour, beetroot for purple colour, chilli powder for red, charcoal for black, chalk for white colour and turmeric for yellow colour. Using natural colours to paint is great fun. Try it…
We all know that eating lots of sweets and chocolates causes tooth decay. It takes a trip to a dentist and you have to bear a lot of pain to get rid of the decay. But there is an easy way to take care of this problem. Did you know that eating cheese at the…
We all are disgusted by spit. There are boards everywhere saying ‘Do not Spit’. But do you know spit, which is the saliva in your mouth, has an important role to play? It is the spit that helps us to taste the food. If there is no spit in the mouth we would not be…
