Seeing Life Through the Eyes of Kids
Beguiling Ideas about Science
The
beguiling ideas about science quoted here were collected from essays,
exams, and class room discussions; most were from fifth- and sixth-graders.
They illustrate Mark Twain's contention that the "most interesting
information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop."
- One
horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse
500 feet in one second.
- You
can listen to thunder after lightening and tell how close
you came to getting hit. If you don't hear it you got hit,
so never mind.
- When
they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed
with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them
stuffed with explosions.
- When
people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy.
When planets do it we say they are orbiting.
- Most
books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to
change back into a sun in the daytime.
- Many
dead animals of the past changed to fossils, others preferred
to be oil.
- Vacuums
are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know
they're there.
- Some
people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But
I have never been able to make out the numbers.
- We
say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation.
Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget
to put the top on.
- I
am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how
to do it, and that is the important thing.
- Cyanide
is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dog's tongue will
kill the strongest man.
- Thunder
is a rich source of loudness.
- Isotherms
and isobars are even more important than their names sound.
- It
is so hot in some parts of the world that the people there
have to live other places.
- Our
new teacher told us all about fossils. Before she came to
our class, I didn't know what a fossil looked like.
- Pavlov
studied the salvation of dogs.
- A
molecule is so small that it can't be seen by the naked observer.
- In
biology today, we digested a frog.
- To
prevent head colds, use an agonizer to spray into your nose
until it drops down into your throat.
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