Wales Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Tue, 03 Apr 2018 01:07:03 +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 Wales Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 “Adventure” Playgrounds Can Build Confidence https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/04/02/adventure-playgrounds-can-build-confidence/ Tue, 03 Apr 2018 01:07:03 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=16936 At a place called The Land, in Wrexham, Wales, the ground is littered with pieces of wood, old tires, packing crates, and shopping carts. It looks like a junkyard, but it isn’t. It’s a playground.
There’s also a fire pit, hammers and saws, and a rope swing across a creek. Some of the equipment can be dangerous, but the people who run the playground believe that letting children take some risks is good for them.
The Land was created by Claire Griffiths, who has two children of her own. She wanted to build a space where children could play the way they wanted and experiment with different things, without a lot of rules.

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]]> Was Stonehenge Built for Prehistoric Rock Music? https://teachingkidsnews.com/2014/03/16/1-stonehenge-built-prehistoric-rock-music/ Mon, 17 Mar 2014 00:38:16 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=12611 For many years, archaeologists have wondered why the people who built Stonehenge – a prehistoric monument in the south of England – used huge rocks that came from more than 300 kilometres away.

Now, a team of researchers believes the rocks may have been chosen because they produce musical sounds.

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