Kids News - Articles for Grade 3

All you budding artists - Here is your chance to become famous. This year's Doodle 4 Google contest is on and anybody from grades K-12 can enter the fray and, win the honor of being on the homepage of the world's most frequented search engine!...

As the sky shines right above me, my shadow I see beside me - six more weeks of winter it will be!" - This was the dire prediction that legendary groundhog "Punxsutawney Phil", made yesterday, in front of thousands of people gathered in the town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania....

For the last several years, Apple Inc. has kept us on tenterhooks with their cool and exciting innovations - First there was the iPod, then came the iPod Touch and iPhone, and now finally, something we have all been holding our breath for . . . . the iPad! So is it as cool as we had thought it would be - Read on, and decide for yourself....

All of us Earthlings are in for a real treat starting today. Our favorite planet Mars, is going to be just 99mm kilometers away, close enough for us to be able to see, even without a telescope - And, it will remain in that position for a whole week!...

While we all know that every snowflake is unique, we know very little about the man who discovered and photographed this fact. Surprisingly, it was not a scientist, but a farmer from Vermont, who took the first micro-photograph of a snowflake in 1885, when he just 19 years old....

Seven-year old schoolboy Charlie Simpson was so by the plight of the people of that he decided he had to something to help. The little boy had hoped to raise about $800USD. Instead, he has raised an amazing $190,000USD and the donations keep coming!...

Austrian born Felix Baumgartner is known for his dare devil antics. He was the first man to fly across the English Channel with a carbon wing, the first to jump of the Taipei 101, the world's tallest building prior to the Burj Khalifa, and may soon become the first man to exceed the speed of sound, by free falling from the edge of the Earth's stratosphere - a distance of over 120,000 ft!...

Can't decide what you want to be when you grow up? Well now you can try out one or all your aspirations in a day, at a theme park called Wannado City. The best part is, you don't have to get any special training or go to school....

Every year, during the month of January, the normally quiet village of Hwacheon, South Korea suddenly becomes a hub of activit,y as thousands of ice fishing enthusiasts descend to the region, to participate in what is probably the world's largest ice fishing festival...