grade 4 Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Mon, 21 Oct 2019 18:26:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg grade 4 Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Best $10 Bill In The World https://teachingkidsnews.com/2019/05/12/best-10-bill-in-the-world/ Mon, 13 May 2019 00:19:44 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=17710 The Canadian $10 bill has been given the Bank Note of the Year Award for 2018, by the International Bank Note Society The bill, which features social justice icon Viola Desmond, is the first one in Canada to be vertical instead of horizontal. In other words, the images on the bill are to be viewed up-and-down rather than sideways.
The bill is made of polymer rather than paper.
It is the first Canadian bank note (bill) to feature a woman other than the Queen of England.

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]]> 2019 Oscars Awarded https://teachingkidsnews.com/2019/02/25/2019-oscars-awarded/ Tue, 26 Feb 2019 02:16:29 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=17598 Every year, the biggest awards for movies and actors are given out at a star-studded ceremony known as the Academy Awards, or “Oscars” for short. The award for Best Picture went to the movie Green Book, Best Actress was awarded […]

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]]> 2019 Baby-Name Trends: Global, Nonbinary, Gems https://teachingkidsnews.com/2019/02/11/2019-baby-name-trends-global-nonbinary-gems/ Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:03:36 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=17534 Do you know anyone named Aroha, Laken or Frost? By the end of the year, you might. Those names follow some of the biggest baby-name trends for 2019, according to nameberry, a website that is all about names for babies […]

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]]> Food Groups Are Out, Plants Are In: New Health Canada Guidelines https://teachingkidsnews.com/2019/01/27/food-groups-are-out-plants-are-in-new-health-canada-guidelines/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2019/01/27/food-groups-are-out-plants-are-in-new-health-canada-guidelines/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2019 00:56:17 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=17498 Eat more fruits, vegetables and proteins that come from plants. That’s the advice from Health Canada, which introduced a new Canada’s Food Guide last week. You should also limit “processed” foods and try to eat out less often. Processed foods […]

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]]> https://teachingkidsnews.com/2019/01/27/food-groups-are-out-plants-are-in-new-health-canada-guidelines/feed/ 1 Huge Australian Steer Goes Viral (But Pssst … There’s A Bigger One In Canada!) https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/12/09/huge-australian-steer-goes-viral-but-pssst-theres-a-bigger-one-in-canada/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/12/09/huge-australian-steer-goes-viral-but-pssst-theres-a-bigger-one-in-canada/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2018 01:43:50 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=17364 Knickers the steer has caught people's interest, around the world.
The 6'4" steer is so much bigger than the cattle he lives with that he has become an Internet sensation. Knickers lives in Australia and weighs 1,400 kilograms. An average bull weighs about 1,100 kgs.
Tyne Logan, at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) told reporter Jacqueline Lynch about an enormous Holstein Friesian steer he had seen. She went along to see for herself just how big Knickers is. On the ABC website, she says Knickers was "pretty intimidating when all of his 1,4000 kilograms first came lumbering through the gate towards me."

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]]> https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/12/09/huge-australian-steer-goes-viral-but-pssst-theres-a-bigger-one-in-canada/feed/ 1 Canadian Astronaut To Board ISS https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/11/25/canadian-astronaut-to-board-iss/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/11/25/canadian-astronaut-to-board-iss/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2018 00:50:43 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=17328 The International Space Station is a spacecraft that orbits the Earth; it is part laboratory and part home for astronauts. And soon it will have a new resident.
Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques will make the journey to the ISS on December 3. The launch is set for 6:30 a.m. He will remain on the spacecraft for about six months.
It is his first mission as an astronaut. It is the 17th space flight for the Canadian Astronaut Corps, according to the Canadian Space Agency.
While he is on board the ISS, Saint-Jacques will conduct experiments and demonstrate technology.

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]]> https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/11/25/canadian-astronaut-to-board-iss/feed/ 1 Million-Dollar Banksy Painting Shreds Itself https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/10/14/million-dollar-banksy-painting-shreds-itself/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/10/14/million-dollar-banksy-painting-shreds-itself/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2018 03:01:26 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=17229 Banksy has done it again.

Banksy is a world-famous artist, but no one knows exactly who Banksy is--or even if Banksy is male or female.

That's because Banksy is a "street artist." Most of the art Banksy creates is painted on the sides of buildings, public walls and other places that are out in the open. And the art is created without anyone seeing them being created. So Banksy has remained anonymous (meaning that no one knows who it is).

Banksy's art is "political." That means it's not just interesting to look at, but it makes a point about something.

One of Banksy's most famous paintings is called Girl with Balloon. It was painted in 2002 on a wall in the UK.

Recently, a framed copy of Girl with Balloon was auctioned off (sold) for nearly two million dollars.

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]]> https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/10/14/million-dollar-banksy-painting-shreds-itself/feed/ 2 What You Need To Know About NAFTA and USMCA https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/10/10/what-you-need-to-know-about-nafta-and-usmca/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/10/10/what-you-need-to-know-about-nafta-and-usmca/#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2018 01:39:47 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=17215 A big agreement was just made between the United States, Canada and Mexico.
It's complicated--too complicated to explain fully here--but it's good to have an idea about what it is and why it is important.
Back in 1994, the US, Canada and Mexico made a deal to all become "trading partners." That means, each country would partner with the others to make it easy to buy and sell things and services back and forth. That deal was called NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement.
When countries don't have a deal like that, it's sometimes hard for one country to sell things to another country.

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Boyan Slat is a high school student who lives in Holland, in Europe. Seven years ago, he was swimming in the ocean. He saw more trash in the water, than fish. So for a school project, he made a plan to clean up the ocean.
In 2013, Slat formed a group called The Ocean Cleanup. It raised money to put Slat’s water clean-up plan in action.
On September 8, Slat’s plan began.
In the ocean between California and Hawaii is a lot of floating garbage. It is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Slat’s group will clean it up using a floating tube. The tube will go around the garbage and trap it.

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]]> US Women’s Open Memorable For Two Very Different Reasons https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/09/09/us-womens-open-memorable-for-two-very-different-reasons/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/09/09/us-womens-open-memorable-for-two-very-different-reasons/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:43:17 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=17132 Twenty-year-old Naomi Osaka won the US Open tennis tournament (Women's Singles) on Saturday.
Osaka, who is Japanese-American, is the first Japanese person to win a major tennis tournament.
However, her win isn't the only thing that made the tournament memorable. Something happened to her opponent, 36-year-old tennis star Serena Williams.
She was accused of being "coached," which is not allowed during a match. Williams's coach, who was sitting in the crowd, had made a motion with his hands to tell Williams how to hit a shot. However, Williams said she was not looking at the coach at the time and so did not cheat.

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