By Brooklynn Then, age 11 Amazon’s treatment of workers today is comparable to exploitation during the Gilded Age, argues Monika Jus in Medium. Well, what was the Gilded Age? The Gilded Age was an era spanning from the late 1800s to early 1900s. It was a period of rapid industrialization, creating a lot of wealth …
By Nathalie Medina, Age 11 What do you know about teachers making their students laugh? It turns out that humor affects learning retention by making things easier to remember. A study from the University of Georgia found that students were more engaged and more positive when their instructor was funnier, according to Futurity. And children …
By Scarlett Mora, age 12 Air pollution is bad for kids. When we breathe polluted air, our respiratory, reproductive, endocrine, immune, digestive, and neurological systems can be affected, according to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In one study, “Israeli students performed worse on high-stakes exams when air pollution spiked on test day. Similar results …
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By Aayat Iftikhar, age 9 Viruses are invisible killers that can cause sicknesses like polio, influenza, chickenpox, mpox, COVID, the common cold, fever, and more. They are invisible to the naked eye. For example, the polio virus is 10,000 times smaller than a grain of salt, according to PBS. When scientists first discovered viruses, they …
By Antonia Delfin Cuba, age 11 Recently I went to an event called “Night at the Museum” at the Natural History Museum. We got a tour of the dinosaur skeletons, and there were some pretty cool and weird-looking dinosaurs. Kids like me like dinosaurs and are interested in them and want to learn more or …
By Shanty Tejeda, age 11 Autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, has surged in popularity over the years, with some videos amassing over 37 million views, according to Upworthy. ASMR videos tend to be nonvocal, focusing on sound effects, like scraping fingernails on bottled water. This type of video was popularized in 2010 when YouTuber …
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By Bernadette Zumoff, age 11 There are 3.1 million immigrants in New York City. According to the Center for Migration Studies, 38% of the city’s population are foreign-born. Today, New York City’s largest immigrant groups are from the Dominican Republic, China, Jamaica, Mexico, and Ecuador. Most of New York City’s immigrants speak Spanish, English, Chinese, …
By Noel Fernandez, age 11 Have you ever wondered why and how the U.S. agency for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) started? ICE was created as part of the Department of Homeland Security in response to the terrorist attacks on 9/11, which shook the whole country. It was founded on March 1, 2003, with the …
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