A New Kind of Park Opens in the City Author: Mr. Johnson, 4th Grade TeacherTheme: Environmental Education, Urban Ecology, Community Action Full Text: Earlier this week, on a sunny Tuesday in May, something exciting happened in our city. A brand new park opened its gates for the first time! But this isn’t just any ordinary park with […]
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A New Kind of “Smart” Bandage Helps Heal Cuts Faster Earlier this year, in the month of March, a team of scientists announced they had created something amazing: a special “smart” bandage. This isn’t an ordinary bandage you might find in your school nurse’s office. This new bandage can actually help a small cut or
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A New Kind of Helper in the Sky Earlier this year, in the month of May, a very special event happened high above the Earth. Scientists and engineers launched a brand-new weather satellite into space. A satellite is a machine that orbits, or circles, our planet. This new satellite is named GOES-U, and it has
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A New Kind of Helper in the Hospital Earlier this week, in a hospital in Boston, something exciting happened. Doctors and nurses welcomed a new team member to help care for patients. But this helper isn’t a person—it’s a robot! This news comes from a story that was shared this year, in the month of
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A New Kind of Park Opens in Texas Earlier this year, in the month of May, something very special happened in the city of Dallas, Texas. A brand-new park opened, but this isn’t just any ordinary park with swings and slides. This park is built on top of a highway! It’s called a “deck park,”
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A New Kind of School Lunch Earlier this week, on a sunny Monday in October, something exciting started happening in school cafeterias across the country. The United States government announced a big change to help kids eat healthier and help our planet at the same time. This change is all about what’s on your lunch
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A New National Park is Born: Remembering History, Guarding Justice This year, in the beautiful month of April, the United States got a wonderful new gift: a brand new national park! The park is called Amache National Historic Site, and it is located in the state of Colorado. But this park is different from many
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A New Kind of Space Mission Earlier this month, in May of this year, something exciting happened in the world of space exploration. A special spacecraft named the Boeing Starliner blasted off from Earth on a very important test flight. Its destination? The International Space Station, a giant science lab that orbits high above our
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A New Kind of Robot Helps People Walk Again By: Mr./Ms. Johnson, 3rd Grade Teacher Earlier this year, in the month of May, some amazing news came from scientists who build robots. They didn’t build a robot to clean your room or play soccer. Instead, they built a special robot suit to help people who
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A New Kind of Helper in the Library Earlier this week, something exciting happened at a public library in San Francisco. The library got a new helper, but this helper isn’t a person! It is a friendly, orange and white robot named “Goose.” Goose is a special kind of robot that can move around by
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