Seasons Greetings

  May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,  

  The gladness of Christmas give you hope,  
  The warmth of Christmas grant you love.  

I SÉT ÜP This CHRISTMAS TREE Just For You.
It brings with it, Hope, Joy, and Love & Peace.
Merry Christmas to you.

Christmas Greetings

Christmas Wishes

Electricity

Learn about Electricity

• Electricity is a very useful form of energy. Electricity can be used to perform work such as:

1. Heating our homes or our food (electrical energy is converted into light and heat energy)
2. Lighting our lamps (electrical energy is converted into light and heat energy)
3. Powering our computers (electrical energy is converted into light, heat and sound energy) or
4. Powering a motor (electrical energy is converted into movement, heat and sound energy).

 

Science Fun

Science Fun:

Farm Animals

Want to learn more about farm animals? We have lots of things for you to do! FARM ANIMALS GAMES Have Fun !!

Science Fun

Science Fun:

Bugs & Insects

Want to learn more about bugs & insects? We have lots of things for you to do! BUGS & INSECTS GAMES Have Fun !!

Jungle Journey Flash

Go on a jungle journey by clicking the picture below.

Jungle Journey Flash

Science Games for Kids

Click on the picture to play

Plants & Animals

Learn about plants & animals as you spot them in an outdoor scene, discover more about where plants and animals live as well as other interesting facts. Different animals tend to live in different habitats that suit their characteristics, this is the same with plants, which thrive in an environment that suits them. See if you can spot living things such as flowers, trees, insects and birds as you complete the fun activities in this cool, interactive science game for kids.

Animals

 The animal kingdom is made up of 2 main groups:

ANIMALS WITH BACKBONES	ANIMALS WITHOUT BACKBONES
Animals with backbones are called VERTEBRATES.	Animals without backbones are called  INVERTEBRATES.
Some VERTEBRATES are   Mammals     Birds     Reptiles     Amphibians     Fish	Some INVERTEBRATES are   Molluscs      Worms      Arthropods      Echinoderms       Coelenterates

Plants Games

Life Cycle of a Plant

Click on the picture to play

Plants

Plants and Life on Earth Plants help the environment and us in many different ways:

Plants make food

Plants are the only organisms that can convert light energy from the sun into food.  And plants produce ALL of the food that animals, including people, eat.  Even meat.  The animals that give us meat, such as chickens and cows, eat grass, oats, corn, or some other plants.

Plants make oxygen

One of the materials that plants produce as they make food is oxygen gas.  This oxygen gas, which is an important part of the air, is the gas that plants and animals must have in order to stay alive.  When people breathe, it is the oxygen that we take out of the air to keep our cells and bodies alive.  All of the oxygen available for living organisms comes from plants.

Plants provide habitats for animals

Plants are the primary habitat for thousands of other organisms.  Animals live in, on, or under plants.  Plants provide shelter and safety for animals.  Plants also provide a place for animals to find other food.  As a habitat, plants alter the climate.  On a small scale, plants provide shade, help moderate the temperature, and protect animals from the wind.  On a larger scale, such as in tropical rainforests, plants actually change the rainfall patterns over large areas of the earth's surface.

Plants help make and preserve soil

In the forest and the prairie, the roots of plants help hold the soil together.  This reduces erosion and helps conserve the soil.  Plants also help make soil.  Soil is made up of lots of particles of rocks which are broken down into very small pieces.  When plants die, their decomposed remains are added to the soil.  This helps to make the soil rich with nutrients.

Plants provide useful products for people

Many plants are important sources of products that people use, including food, fibers (for cloth), and medicines.  Plants also help provide some of our energy needs.  In some parts of the world, wood is the primary fuel used by people to cook their meals and heat their homes.  Many of the other types of fuel we use today, such as coal, natural gas, and gasoline, were made from plants that lived millions of years ago. 

Plants beautify

Plants, because of their beauty, are important elements of out human world.  When we build houses and other buildings, we never think the job is done until we have planted trees, shrubs, and flowers to make what we have built much nicer.

Plants

Plant Adaptations

Plants have adaptations to help them survive (live and grow) in different areas. Adaptations are special features that allow a plant or animal to live in a particular place or habitat. These adaptations might make it very difficult for the plant to survive in a different place. This explains why certain plants are found in one area, but not in another. For example, you wouldn't see a cactus living in the Arctic. Nor would you see lots of really tall trees living in grasslands.

Click on the different biomes or areas below to learn about them and some of the adaptations plants have to live there: 

Desert	Grassland
Tropical Rain Forest	Temperate Rain Forest
Temperate Deciduous Forest	Taiga
Tundra	In Water

Plants

Photosynthesis Song

Plants

Making Food

Plants are very important to us.  All food people eat comes directly or indirectly from plants.

Directly from plants:	Indirectly from plants:
For example, apples come from an apple tree.  The flour used to make bread comes from a wheat plant.	Steak comes from a cow, and we all know that cows are animals, not plants, right?  But what does the cow eat?  It eats grass and grains—PLANTS!

So all the foods we eat come from plants.  But what do plants eat?  They make their own food!

What Do Plants Need to Make Food?

Plants need several things to make their own food.
They need:

• chlorophyll, a green pigment found in the leaves of plants (see the layer of chlorophyll in the cross-section of a leaf below)

• light (either natural sunlight or artificial light, like from a light bulb)
• carbon dioxide (CO₂)(a gas found in the air; one of the gases people and animals breathe out when they exhale)
• water (which the plant collects through its roots)
• nutrients and minerals (which the plant collects from the soil through its roots)

Plants make food in their leaves.  The leaves contain a pigment called chlorophyll, which colors the leaves green.  Chlorophyll can make food the plant can use from carbon dioxide, water, nutrients, and energy from sunlight.  This process is called photosynthesis.

During the process of photosynthesis, plants release oxygen into the air.  People and animals need oxygen to breathe.

Plants

Parts of a Plant