Lunar Grabens

We just learned about the Lunar Wrinkle Ridges

Let's keep learning about the Moon!

Another thing you can see on the moon looks like a big long ditch.

This is called a Graben.

One of the grabens on the moon is called Rima Ariadaeus:

(from: wikipedia - geology of the moon)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: First Americans in space - Alan Shepard, John Glenn

Spanish - six, seven, eight, nine, ten

We counted to five, now let's count to ten in Spanish!
6 seis - sounds like say-ee-ss /?/
7 siete - sounds like see-et-ay /?/
8 ocho - sounds like oh-cho /?/
9 nueve - sounds like new-ay-vay /?/
10 diez - sounds like dee-ace /?/


(from: wikipedia - Association of Spanish Language Academies)

Do you remember how to say it in French?
six, sept, huit, neuf, dix

Fissure vent

We just learned about the type of volcano called a Shield Volcano.

Sometimes lava erupts right out of the ground, not from a large volcano.

When it comes up from a big crack in the ground it is called a Fissure Vent.

(from: wikipedia - fissure vent)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Light Year

Red Fox

We just learned about the Moray Eel.

The red fox is a very common type of fox that lives through North America, Asia and Europe.

A boy fox is called a tod, a girl fox is a vixen, and little baby foxes are called kits.

(from: wikipedia - red fox)


What does the fox say?

Red foxes make a few different types of sounds.
One is like a high pitched barking sound.
Another is like a high shrieking sound, almost like a woman screaming.
Another is called "gekkering" and it sounds very weird, like chattering teeth and high pitched barking.

Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Spectacled Cobra

Levator Lip Muscles

We just learned about the Procerus Nose Muscle.

There are two muscles in your face that help raise your upper lip:
levator labii superioris and levator anguli oris.

The superioris muscle is the bigger one.

levator means to raise, labii means lip, superioris means upper or bigger, anguli means angled and oris means mouth.


(from: wikipedia - levator labii superioris)


(from: wikipedia - levator anguli oris)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Intermediate Phalanges

Thailand

We just learned about the country of Indonesia.

Thailand is a small country just south of China.


(from: wikipedia - thailand)

Phat thai (also called pad thai) is a meal of noodles, meat, vegetables, peanuts and spices.

(from: wikipedia - pad thai)

Kickboxing is a popular sport in Thailand.

(from: wikipedia - muay thai)

Khon is a type of dance where people wear masks and dance while a story is told.

(from: wikipedia - khon)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Asia

Jesus' Apostles - James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, Jude Thaddaeus

We've learned about 8 of the twelve apostles so far:
Fishermen Andrew and Simon Peter
Fishermen James and John who were brothers and sons of Zebedee.
Philip and Bartholomew who were from the same town as the others.
Matthew the tax collector.
Thomas who is sometimes called doubting Thomas.

Some of the apostles were named the same as others, so they aren't just listed by their first name.

There were two apostles named James.
We already learned about James son of Zebedee, there was also James son of Alphaeus.

(from: wikipedia - james, son of alphaeus)

We already learned about Simon Peter, and there is also the apostle Simon the Zealot.

(from: wikipedia - simon the zealot)

Sometimes people had different names or nicknames too. The apostle Thaddaeus is also called Jude.

(from: wikipedia - jude the apostle)

Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Apostle's Creed - Part 2