Issue 334 - June 2023

MiniMag

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MOMS AND DADS: You Too Can Become Superheroes!
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Hi, MiniMaggers!
Life is like a rollercoaster ride with ups and downs, twists and turns. Sometimes, it may seem like everything is going wrong and the challenges are too overwhelming to handle. But remember, within you lies a powerful quality called resilience. Resil
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Happy Father’s Day!
Turn to page 39 for solution! Make sure to spoil Dad on Father’s Day on the 18th of June! What better time than in the same month we have to think about protecting and looking after the environment. It’s a month of caring and nurturing, making sure w
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Restoring Healthy Ecosystems
Environmental Month is a dedicated month where we learn about the environment and how to take care of it. We celebrate things like World Reef Day, World Environment Day, World Oceans Day, Global Wind Day, Rainforest Day and World Day to Combat Desert
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Planet Ocean: Tides are changing
World Oceans Day is celebrated every year on 8 June to honour our oceans and raise awareness about the important role they play in our planet’s ecosystem. This year, the theme for World Oceans Day is “Planet Ocean: Tides are changing,” and it encoura
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Find The Missing items!
These 10 items are hidden in this picture! Can you find them all? Let’s think about all the fun activities that we can have in the ocean! One of the most popular things to do is swimming. You can swim with your family and friends or take a class to l
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Rainforests – Home To Over Half The Plant and Animal Species On Earth!
One of the most amazing things about rainforests is the diverse biodiversity they contain. There are thousands of different plant and animal species that can only be found in rainforests. Some of these species are so rare that they are considered end
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Meet The Characters
An energetic, giant, dancing sloth, Snook is dedicated to protecting, helping, and caring for his friends and learning all about the big, big world around him. He may be slow, but he’s a big thinker with big thoughts and a fascination for science. Sm
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June 2023 Episodes Overview
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Welcome to It’s a BIG BIG WORLDTM
This innovative preschool series from Mitchell Kriegman (creator of Bear in the Big Blue House, Clarissa Explains It All) helps kids experience science, not just as a collection of facts, but as an exciting process of discovery. In each episode, kids
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From Web-slinging to Worldwide Phenomenon: Untangling the Web of Spider-Man’s History
The character’ s origins begin with Peter Parker, a nerdy high school student living with his Aunt May and Uncle Ben in New York City. During a science demonstration, Peter is bitten by a radioactive spider and gains spider-like powers, including sup
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Spidey Sense-ations:
• Spider-Man was originally supposed to be called “Fly-Man,” but co-creator Stan Lee changed it to Spider-Man because he thought a hero named Fly-Man sounded too similar to the already-existing DC Comics character, Superman.• Spider-Man’s costume was
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Getting Your Tongue In A Twist
Alliteration is a term used for a literary device in which a series of words begin with the same consonant sound. Most tongue twisters are alliteration! They can also be used to practice your pronunciation. I thought, I thought of thinking of thankin
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Spider-man: Across
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar® -winning Spider-Verse saga, Spider-Man: Across the SpiderVerse. After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighbourhood, Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, wh
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The History of Chemistry
Chemistry is the study of matter. Matter is everything around us – things we can see and some we cannot see. Matter can be solids, liquids or gases. In chemistry we study properties of matter and also do experiments to find out how substances react w
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Modern Chemistry
The 18th century was also very important for the development of chemistry. The first elements were discovered and molecules (combined atoms) were produced. Here are a few examples of what was done during this time: • Joseph Black (1728 – 1799) studie
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Learn Your Chemical
There’s no way to escape chemicals. They surround you as you snuggle in your bed, they scrub you clean in the bathroom, and they slide down your throat during meals. You are a living, walking, breathing chemical factory. You’re in contact with millio
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Colour-changing Cabbage
• medium sized bowl• plastic container• head of red cabbage• clear plastic cups or glasses• baking soda• liquids to test like lemon juice, vinegar or cola.• grater• cold water• strainer 1. Check with an adult before you begin!2. Grate some red cabbag
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Fun With The Periodic Table
Dmitri Mendeleev was first to publish the Periodic Table as we know it today. By a stroke of genius he managed to arrange the elements in order of their weight and simultaneously created groups of elements with similar properties. He even left gaps o
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The Four Elements Of Matter
This theory was suggested around 450 BC, and it was later supported and added to by Aristotle. (Aristotle also suggested that there was a fifth element, aether, because it seemed strange that the stars would be made out of earthly elements. He would
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Elements of Life
The earliest of the natural philosophers of ancient Greece, Thales was a mathematician and astronomer. His assertion that the world started from water was the first to consider the elements of the Universe. The fundamental question of what the Univer
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Count
Did you know that geometry is one of the earliest branches of mathematics? Its beginnings can be traced to as far back as ancient Egypt. Now, the ancient Egyptians were clever people, so they must have had a good reason for inventing it. And they did
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June 2023
Travel deep into the rainforest, high atop the world, to the tallest tree – the World Tree – where Snook, an energetic giant tree sloth, is your guide to a big, big world of animal characters, exciting stories, and world music rhythms. Website: pbski
MiniMag1 min readInternational Relations
The Planet and the 17 Goals
This list was made by: THE UNITED NATIONS an International Organisation that counts virtually every country in the world as a member! The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of targets relating to future international development. They are
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International Children’s Day 1 June 2023
Children need protection from abuse, neglect, violence, exploitation and other forms of harm that may threaten their physical, emotional and psychological development. It is also the responsibility of adults and the society at large to create a prote

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