Kids News - Articles for Grade 9

On March 20th, 2010, six intrepid explorers set off from San Francisco, California to Sydney, Australia on what was described as the 'adventure of the century', aboard Plastiki, a revolutionary catamaran made entirely from recycled plastic....

A team of Scientists led by Professor Karpinski at Warsaw's University of Life Sciences recently revealed that they had conducted tests, which proved plants can remember and process information, just like human beings....

What happens when you cross a Donkey with a Zebra - You get a Zedonk or Zonkey of course! This rare combination happens rather infrequently, which is why the birth of this little foal at Chestatee Preserve in Dahlonega, Georgia is causing so much excitement....

Reading is fun and it only gets better when you watch this week's video starring the students from Florida's Ocee Middle School and Full Sail University. By the end you will not only be humming 'Gotta Keep Reading', but hopefully, also reading some fun books!...

'Ready, Steady, Slow' and off they go! You've heard of car races, horse races, maybe even camel races....but how about a race featuring one of the planet's slowest creatures - Snails! Can these slimy gastropods 'move at a snail's pace' and still compete against one another?...

For the last four days, San Diego, CA has been host to one of the world's most popular conventions - Comic Con International, an event dedicated to comics, science fiction and fantasy. While children are welcome at this event, it is more populated with adults behaving like kids!...

If you happened to be near the Thames River in Southern England, from July 19th to the 23rd, you may have witnessed a rather unusual event - Swan Upping, an annual census of swans commissioned by the order of her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II....

A Colorado bear prowling for food got more than he had bargained for when he stepped inside a car attracted by the peanut butter and jelly sandwich that lay on the back seat....

Earlier last month, Khroma, a baby Mammoth took its first airplane trip all the way from its frozen home in Siberia where it had lain for over 50,000 years to spend the summer on display in South East France's, ....