My husband brought this list home from work, for our kids to use as a little year-end review. It's compiled of select answers from the "essays, exams, and classroom discussions" of 5th and 6th-graders:
When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting.
Rainbows are to look at, not to really understand.
While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the sun, it is really only centrificating.
South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still manage.
Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. There are 180 degrees between freezing and boiling because there are 180 degrees between north and south.
A vibration is a motion that can't make up its mind which way it wants to go.
Lime is a green-tasting rock.
Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't why you should.
Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they're there.
Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so sometimes it's brother against brother.
It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other places.
Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers.
To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up.
In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H's as O's.
Clouds are high-flying fogs.
I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing.
In some rocks you can find the fossil footprints of fishes.
Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dog's tongue will kill the strongest man.
A monsoon is a French gentleman.
The wind is like the air, only pushier.
Thunder is a rich source of loudness.
(If you know of any more, you can submit them at the aforementioned website.
