For thousands of years, people have built places where they can pray and worship. Jews build synagogues, Moslems build mosques, Christians build churches, and Buddhists build temples. The next...
People Watchers
Would you like to dig up the skeleton of someone who lived thousands of years ago? Or explore the bottom of the ocean for treasure from sunken ships? Or do things to help people live better and be...
Vanishing Animals
The great auk is extinct. You have never seen one of the big, funny-looking birds called dodos. They are extinct. That means there aren't any dodos alive anymore. But 400 years ago, there were...
Changing color
How would you like to play hide-and-seek with a chameleon? You'd have a hard time finding this tiny lizard. It can hide by changing color! It can be green on a green leaf, yellow on yellow sand, and...
Sea Peaches
> The sea peach is one kind of sea squirt. Sea squirts suck water in, > then squirt it out. Sea peaches, cucumbers, grapes You would never find a sea peach in a basket of fruit, or a sea cucumber...
Dust devils and dust storms
A tornado is a whirling wind that comes down from the sky and touches the ground. Dust devils and sand pillars are whirling winds that go from the ground up into the sky. Whenever hot air rises, it...
Where a river meets the sea
What has its head at one end and its mouth at the other end? A river! The place where a river begins is called its head. And the place where it comes to an end, where it flows into a lake or the...
Dry lands
> an oasis in the Sahara, Algeria The golden, glowing sun glares down on a vast sea of sand. As far as the eye can see, the sand stretches in great yellow-brown ripples. The air is so hot you can...
The birth and death of a mountain range
Mountain ranges rise where a sea once met a shore. They start to form when a sea bottom along the edge of a continent begins to fill up with mud and sand. As the mud and sand grow thicker, the sea...
Millions of Cats
by Wanda Gag Once upon a time there was a very old man and a very old woman. They lived in a nice clean house which had flowers all around it, except where the door was. But they couldn't be happy...
