Six simple science experiments you need to show your kids

There are certain simple experiments which really impress children. They might not entirely understand the explanation which lies behind them, but they’ll remember them for their whole life, and they could very well help them understand something in science class when the time comes.

We compiled six of the most interesting experiments which are guaranteed to impress kids. Everything you need for them you can find at home.

Fireproof balloon

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You need: 2 balloons, a candle, matches, water.

The experiment: Fill the first balloon with air and hold it over a lit candle to demonstrate to the kids that the flame will cause it to burst. Then fill the second balloon with tap water, light the candle and hold the balloon over it once again. You’ll see that in this case the balloon can withstand the heat of the flame.

Explanation: The water in the balloon absorbs the heat given out by the candle, so the material of the balloon itself doesn’t burn and then burst.

Pencil trick

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You need: A polyethylene bag, some ordinary pencils, water.

The experiment: Fill about half the polyethylene with water. Pierce the bag using the pencils in the places where it’s filled with water.

Explanation: If you pierce the bag with the pencils and only then pour in the water, it will seep out through the holes you’ve made. But if you fill it first and then insert the pencils, the water will not seep out at all. This is a result of the fact that when the polyethylene is broken apart it’s molecules move closer together. In this case, the polyethylene tightens around the pencils.

Colourful cabbage

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You need: 4 glasses with water in them, food colouring, some cabbage leaves.

The experiment: Add different coloured food colouring to each glass of water, then place a single cabbage leaf in them. Leave them overnight. In the morning the leaves will have changed colour.

Explanation: Because plants absorb water, their leaves also absorb the colour of that water. This is known as the capillary effect, whereby the water will pass into the tiniest tubules of the plant. This happens with flowers, grass and even trees.

Floating egg

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You need: 2 eggs, 2 glasses of water, some salt.

The experiment: Carefuly place an egg in a glass of ordinary pure water. Provided the egg hasn’t gone off, it should fall to the bottom of the glass. Then pour some hot water into the second glass and dissolve 4-5 tablespoons of salt in it. It will work better if you wait until the water then cools down. Then drop the second egg in it. It will float on the surface rather thank sink to the bottom.

Explanation: The key here is the density of the molecules making up both the egg and the water. The average density of an egg is much greater than that of pure water, so it’s pulled downwards. The density of the salt mixture is higher than that of the egg, so the latter can’t fall to the bottom.

Crystallised candy

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You need: 2 glasses of water, 5 glasses of sugar, small wooden kebab sticks, some thick paper, some clear glasses, a saucepan, food colouring.

The experiment: Make some sugar syrup by adding a couple of teaspoons of ordinary sugar to a quarter glass of water. Sprinkle a piece of paper with some sugar. Dip the kebab sticks in the mixture, stirring them so that pieces of sugar start to stick to them. Make sure the mixture is spread evenly along the stick, then lay them out on the paper.

Leave the sticks to dry out overnight. In the morning, dissolve five glasses of sugar in two glasses of water in a heated saucepan. Leave the resulting syrup to cool down for 15 minutes, although not for too long as otherwise the crystals won’t form. Then pour it into some empty jars and add food colouring in different colours. Place the now-ready kebab sticks in the jars, but make sure they touch neither walls or bottom — use a clothes peg to do this.

Now wait and observe what happens.

Explanation: The solubility of the syrup-water declines as its temperature falls, which produces a sediment of sugar grains on the sticks.

A lit match

You need: Some matches, a torch.

The experiment: Light a match and hold it about 10-15 centimetres away from the wall. Shine a torch over your hand holding the match. You’ll notice that only the shadow of your hand and the matchstick itself will appear on the wall — the flame will not appear.

Explanation: Fire does not produce a shadown, because it doesn’t impede the passage of light through itself in the same way that physical materials do.

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Important Lessons To Teach Your Children

A young man went to seek an important position at a large printing company. He passed the initial interview and was going to meet the director for the final interview. The director saw his resume, it was excellent. And asked, '
- Have you received a scholarship for school?' The boy replied, " No '.
-' It was your father who paid for your studies? '
-' Yes.'- He replied.
-' Where does your father work? '
-' My father is a Blacksmith'

The Director asked the young to show him his hands.
The young man showed a pair of hands soft and perfect.
-' Have you ever helped your parents at their job? '
-' Never, my parents always wanted me to study and read more books. Besides, he can do the job better than me.
The director said:
-' I have got a request: When you go home today, go and wash the hands of your father and then come see me tomorrow morning.'

The young felt his chance to get the job was high. When he returned to his house he asked his father if he would allow him to wash their hands.His father felt strange, happy, but with mixed feelings and showed their hands to his son. The young washed his hands, little by little. It was the first time that he noticed his father's hands were wrinkled and they had so many scars. Some bruises were so painful that his skin shuddered when he touched them.

This was the first time that the young man recognized what it meant for this pair of hands to work every day to be able to pay for his study. The bruises on the hands were the price that he payed for their education, his school activities and his future.

After cleaning his father's hands the young man stood in silence and began to tidy and clean up the workshop. That night, father and son talked for a long time.

The next morning, the young man went to the office of the director. 

The Director noticed the tears in the eyes of the young when He asked him: -' Can you tell me what you did and what you learned yesterday at your house?'

The boy replied: -' I washed my father's hands and when I finished I stayed and cleaned his workshop '
-' Now I know what it is to appreciate and recognize that without my parents , I would not be who I am today . By helping my father I now realize how difficult and hard it is to do something on my own. I have come to appreciate the importance and the value in helping the family.

The director said, "This is what I look for in my people. I want to hire someone who can appreciate the help of others , a person who knows the hardship of others to do things, and a person who does not put money as his only goal in life". ' You are hired '.

A child that has been coddled, protected and usually given him what he wants, develops a mentality of " I have the right ' and will always put himself first, ignoring the efforts of their parents. If we are this type of protective parent are we really showing love or are we destroying our children?

You can give your child a big house , good food , computer classes , watch on a big screen TV . But when you're washing the floor or painting a wall , please let him experience that too.

After eating have them wash the dishes with their brothers and sisters. It is not because you have no money to hire someone to do this it's because you want to love them the right way . No matter how rich you are, you want them to understand. One day your hair will have gray hair, like the father of this young man.

The most important thing is that your child learns to appreciate the effort and to experience the difficulties and learn the ability to work with others to get things done. "

What to Teach Your Children

Oral cholera vaccine loaded with GMOs to be tested on babies worldwide

"The introduction of a global vaccine, targeting infants and young children, will be one of the most wicked forms of genocide ever witnessed since the deaths of the Jews under Hitler. This evil plan will be possible because many of your governments forced their people to accept changes in their laws giving their governments power to enforce laws against your innocent children." - MDM, Nov. 10, 2012

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California-based vaccine manufacturer PaxVax has reportedly submitted an application to begin international trials of a novel oral cholera vaccine that contains live, genetically modified (GM) bacteria. VacTruth.com reports that the new vaccine is set to be tested on more than 1,000 individuals, many of whom are young children, in a three-part clinical trial series to take place throughout Australia. In a recent application filing with the Australian Government, PaxVax makes plain its intent to administer the live, GM bacteria in both young and old and in every region of the country. Participants will be instructed to literally consume a cocktail of mercury-resistant, GM Shigella flexneri NR1 bacteria derived from the Vibrio cholera bacterial strain, which is recognized as the causative agent of the gastroenteritis disease known as cholera. According to the filing, the GM cholera strain used in the vaccine has essentially been artificially neutralized to prevent the toxic molecules that would otherwise cause the disease from being produced. The non-active B-subunit of the cholera toxin molecule, in other words, is reportedly still synthesized in the bacteria, but it allegedly no longer holds the capacity to induce either disease or toxicity. ”Multiple steps were required to produce the genetic modifications found in the GMO,” explains the filing. ”Fragments of the Cholera toxin A subunit and haemolysin A genes were cloned into separate plasmids. The gene fragments were then modified in vitro by the deletion of part of the toxin gene and by the insertion of the mer operon.

The plasmids were transferred into the V. cholerae, one at a time, and the genetic modifications were incorporated into the bacterial genome by recombination.” To some, this might all sound like positive progress in the eradication of a disease that infects as many as 5 million people around the world annually, among which about 100,000 end up dying. But to those who have been paying attention to recent developments on the GMO front, feeding children and adults untested transgenic bacteria could become a surefire recipe for a public health disaster. ”According to PaxVax’s application for their proposed clinical trial, ‘There have been no credible reports of adverse effects on human health and safety or the environment resulting from any of these releases,’” writes Missy Fluegge for VacTruth.com. “That is pharma-speak for ‘there have been no credible studies to assess the safety and efficacy of this vaccine.’” This is true of all GMOs currently on the market, none of which have gone through rigorous, long-term safety testing prior to their approval. Nobody knows for sure how these synthetic substances will alter the human genome, especially later on in life, potentially leading to permanent and undesirable changes in human cells, tissue and even DNA. Then, there is the issue of the new PaxVax oral cholera vaccine having been programmed to grow in the presence of mercury, a known neurotoxin that is still being intentionally added to injectable vaccines. Based on its design, the new vaccine more than likely contains added mercury, which means that it threatens to permanently damage the brains and gastrointestinal tracts of those who end up consuming it. ”If traditional bacteria can’t even grow well in mercury, do you think it is healthy for our children to have mercury in their bodies?” asks Fluegge. “Do our children need another mercury-laden vaccine?” NaturalNews.com

Principle of Birth Control

“The root principle of birth-control is unsound. It is a glorification of the means and a contempt of the end; it says that the pleasure which is a means to the procreation of children is good, but the children themselves are no good. In other words, to be logical, the philosophy of birth-control would commit us to a world in which trees were always blooming but never giving fruit, a world full of sign-posts that were leading nowhere. In this cosmos every tree would be a barren fig tree and for that reason would have upon it the curse of God.” 

-  Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Ireland Scraps Bill On Abortion

"... And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? "

- Mother Teresa of Calcutta

MANILA, April 24, 2012–A supposedly proposed law on permitting abortion was defeated at the Dail Eireann, the Irish Parliament, with a landslide of 109 votes to 20.

The bill, authored by Clare Daly, a Teachta Dala (Parliament Member) of the Socialist Party, would have legalized abortions right up to birth in the European nation.

Bernadette Smyth, director of Irish pro-life group Precious Life, said it is “a victory for Ireland’s unborn children,” and also stated that the so-called ‘Medical Treatment Bill’ is a mere “sugar-coated name to make abortion-on-demand legal.”

“Abortion is not medical treatment,” she added. “There are no circumstances where the life of a mother can only be saved by killing her unborn baby. Even Clare Daly who tabled the motion admitted there was nothing ‘medical’ about it when she said it was really an issue of women’s rights to control their own bodies.”

Another Teachta Dala supporting the bill is Sinn Fein, who recently joined the said group in a rally, saying he wants an Irish Republic patterned after the 1916 Easter Proclamation, yet ends up voting for the bill and being branded as a liar.

“The Proclamation calls on Irish people to cherish all the children of the nation,” Smyth said.

“The question Sinn Fein now has to answer is, how can they cherish children while supporting killing children before they’re born?”

Smyth concluded by saying that Ireland’s unborn children continue to be protected by law, and that the nation is still the safest place in the world to have a baby.

“Precious Life continue to resist any attempt to legalise the killing of our unborn children and we continue to stand with the vast majority of people on the island of Ireland who say ‘NOT IN OUR NAME’,” she enthused.

Abortion is illegal in the Philippines, yet the proposed “reproductive health” (RH) bill being debated in both chambers of Congress poses a threat in its subtle steps toward legalization. Though the measure condemns abortion, it promotes contraception, including the use of the Pill and intrauterine device (IUD) both of which studies have shown have led to early-term abortion. Both have also been linked to serious side-effects on the women using them. 

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