Kids News - Articles for Grade 6

Millions of gadgets and gizmos are invented daily - However, only a lucky few are fortunate to actually get manufactured and even fewer are successful. Over the last 35 years, British author, Maurice Collins has made it his hobby and business to collect as many of these weird and wacky, albeit unsuccessful inventions, as he possibly can....

On July 29th, 2008, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Agency, or NASA celebrated its fiftieth birthday. While everyone knows about the cool NASA Space missions, very few people realize that the Agency is also responsible for various services and gadgets that we take for granted in our day-to-day lives....

Most parents would be proud to have one child qualify to compete in the Olympics. So you can imagine how proud Julio and Ondino Lopez of Texas must be to see all four of their children heading to Beijing next week as part of the U.S Taekwondo team....

Third grade curriculum in most schools consists of sharpening Math, English and Computer skills and taking them up a notch. However, if you are lucky enough to be in Anne Siskin's third-grade at Edna Maguire Elementary School in Mill Valley, you may be in for a real treat!...

Leatherback Sea Turtles, the largest of all living sea turtles have been on our Planet for over 100 million years. They have survived the dinosaurs and watched the evolution of mankind. However, in the last 20 years, their population has declined by 90% and if something isn't done soon, they will disappear completely....

On August 1st a very narrow corridor of the Earth will be treated to a special treat - a total solar eclipse. The areas that will be touched include parts of Northern Canada, Siberia, Western Mongolia and China....

What could be worse than living in the World's poorest country? - How about living in the poorest neighborhood in the poorest country. Welcome to Kroo Bay, a small community in Sierra Leone, Africa, that has been built on mounds of trash. This is the story of the children who call it home....

While a lot of you may not know who Bill Gates is, most of you have probably heard about Microsoft - the world's biggest software company he founded in 1975 at the tender age of twenty. Yesterday, this amazing man, who until last year, was also the world's richest, called it quits....

Who would think that this innocent-looking Light Brown Apple Moth could cause so much controversy. According to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, this immigrant from Australia is a menace to crops and needs to be eradicated immediately. While Californian's agree, it's the method used that has them yelling, 'STOP THE SPRAY'....