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Kidspace archive (a free service)

Kidspace is a favorite Tuesday feature with lots of fun and learning for children ages 6 to 12. Parents, teachers, scout leaders, and other mentors find them a valuable resource. Refer to the subject index below for free access to over 70 archived features.

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Categories:

• Animals
• Science, nature, and the environment
• Crafts and activities
• History
• Books, language, writers, and poetry
• Sports, games, and recreation
• Photo quizzes
• Technology, industry, and invention
• Culture
• Miscellaneous (or Grab Bag)

Animals

• Come and get it! It‘s feeding time at the San Diego Zoo
• The secrets of training a circus horse
  – also includes "The native American way with horses"
• The animal masters of disguise
• Beauty of the Beast
• Every track tells a story
• On the trails of a massive, mysterious fish
• Creatures comforted
• Bird is the word
• Life at the extremes
• The ABCs of bees
  – also includes "What"s the buzz"
• In the wild, cleanliness is a survival skill
  – also includes "Penguins get clean – and stylish, too"
• The nature of sound: scientists listen closely to hear what
  – also includes "How to get started in acoustic research"
• Meet an eight-legged actor
  – also includes "A round of applause, please, for this cast of animal impersonators"
• Owl patrol
  – also includes "A high-schooler finds owls that others had overlooked"
• Stalking legendary creatures
  – also includes "Maybe ‘Nessie’ is an earthquake"
• These engineers really soar
  – also includes "Collecting nests, and history"
• Animals "speak" many strange languages
  – also includes "The fish that fooled the US Navy"
• Super-powered spiders
• Paws for my story
• How do animals catch their zzz's?
  – also includes "Why giraffes sleep 10 times less than lions"
• Tale of a sea turtle has a happy ending
• No swan song for the trumpeter
• Shark trackers

Science, nature, and the environment

• Teens tackle pollution in their communities
• The sweet science of cake
  – also includes "Recipe for classic yellow butter cake and cake baking tips"
• Hello? Anybody out there?
  – also includes "You, too, can help listen for aliens" and "Design an Alien Contest"
• Moon mysteries
  – also includes "Why the moon has phases" and "Do you know of a ‘moon tree’ near you?"
• Myths, months, and the moon (eclipses)
  – also includes "How an eclipse saved Columbus"
• A brief look at infinity
  – also includes "A sideways symbol" and "Which is bigger?"
• Peek into the earth
• The sky's no limit (NASA contest)
  – also includes "Persist and win, kids say"
• Explore the garden of the Bible
  – also includes "Plan your own biblical garden"
• Why the day is even longer than it seems (the mystery of extra minutes)
  – also includes "Calendar confusion: The year with 354 days"

Crafts and activities

• Make your own light, and let it shine
• Amazing straw tricks
• How your garden could grow
• Paper player
  – also includes "How the history of this art unfolded"
• Cool tastes of icy sweets

History

• Who am I? A presidential quiz
• How they used to save winter for summer
  – also includes "Frozen water created a splash"
• Digging into the lives of slaves
  – also includes "Life in a ‘free’ Northern state didn't always feel free"
• Votes for women
• How do you do, Mr. President?
  – also includes "How two future leaders helped each other"

Books, language, writers, and poetry

• How new words come to be
  – also includes "The mystery of the famous word collector"
• Poetry contest winners

Sports, games, and recreation

• Where visitors can ‘hoop’ it up
  – also includes "Dribbling through the hall of fame" and "Why goals arent square"
• Yu-Gi-Oh!
  – also includes "The card game that started it all"
• Go fly a kite
  – also includes "The bumblebee kite" and "Move over you windsurfers"
• Boarders catch some "big air"
• Skating with the stars
  – also includes "Wanted: Young flower sweepers"
• Kids try a new-old kind of bicycle race
  – also includes "The greatest sports star you've never known"
• Backyard campout

Photo quizzes

• Mellow yellow photo quiz
• "Animal, vegetable, or mineral?"
• "Springy sports"
• "School tools"
• "Tool foolery"

Technology, industry, and invention

• When the wireless world began
  – also includes "A president chats with a king" and "Marconi and the Titanic"
• Hooked up at home: An insider"s guide to your house"s insides
  – also includes "Watch your energy use"
• Clever inventions that came out of the cold
• It's a small, small, small world
  – also includes "Tiny science, tough soldiers"
• They put the flavor in what you eat
  – also includes "The museum of food failures"
• A cool history (a century of air conditioning)
• Driving toward a more livable planet (hybrid cars)
  – also includes "Fueled by gas, it gives off water"

Culture

• Happy ‘Make Up Your Own Holiday’ day!
• We step back in time with the Hadza
• Gift from the Indians (legacies of native Americans)

Miscellaneous

• Meet the man inside Big Bird
  – also includes "Fun facts about Big Bird and Oscar"
• The mystery and history of soap
  – also includes "Have some good clean fun"
• Your aliens have landed
• What you see is what they want you to get (product placement in movies)
  – also includes "A high-tech way to give old shows new ads"
• A family worthy of blowing its own horn
• We salute America's favorite spread (peanut butter)
• Stuck on stickers
  – also includes "How a banana-label joke became a genuine reality"