Science – the application of knowledge and understanding of the natural social world following a systematic methodology that is based completely on evidence.
Science has led to the discovery of so many important things in our day-to-day life, be it anything we use, like television, electricity, clean water, mobile phones, telephones, to the concepts we know – gravity, medicine, etc. All and everything in our world is made up of and with the help of Science.
Science is completely based on curiosity and kids are always filled of it – every single time. It is science only that helps them to hold things better and hold on the clues that they need for a better understanding of all the different concepts in life.
Science is extremely important for all individuals – be it an adult or a kid, but when we are talking about kids – it becomes even more important for them. So, let’s learn the importance of Science for kids and why does it matter in our day-to-day lives.
Importance of Science in Daily Life
Science is extremely important for everyone in our world. It is the greatest collective endeavour. It helps people in living a healthy and long life so that these individuals can have a great life altogether. Science helps to monitor our health, with the help of thermometers, one can easily measure how their body is feeling and experiencing at the present moment. It helps people to provide cure so that they can cure their diseases, so from small to extremely big diseases, Science today has the cure to each and everything in a human’s life. Science helps to alleviate aches and pains in our body – there are so many different, unique yet new techniques introduced with the help of Science – we today have the cure for each and everything in life.
Benefits of Science
Agriculture
In the field of agriculture, science has made extraordinary contributions – it has helped human beings a lot to get through things easily in life. And when we are talking about the use of Science in the field of agriculture, it has made some great contributions, so much so that today, it has become super easy for people to carry out farming every day.
Medicine
The medical field has made some great advancements and all of that is possible because of the use of Science that exists in our day-to-day life. All the drugs that have been provided to human beings for curing the various types of diseases is only made possible with the advent of Science and with the great technological advancements that have been done by Scientists in this field. There are various machines which the human can use today, these are – Stretchers, ECG Machines, MRI Machines, as well as the different injections.
Transportation
All the vehicles that we are using today, or that are in use today – in the entire world are a gift provided to us by the help of Science. Humans today can easily reach from one place to another within minutes or great distances can be covered within just a few hours, and all of this is possible because of Science which helped us human beings to create such great technologies which can be easily used in transports – thus, we can get benefitted from that.
Photography
Science today has provided us with various different types of machines which can be used for some great photography. As compared to the older times, it has been 10X easier today to clear pictures with the help of the inventions done by Science in the field of photography. Camera’s have now been inserted in our mobile phones only because of which it has been easier for human beings to take pictures and there has been no need of carrying a big camera any more.
Now, let’s just shift from this and keep our focus on the Solar system – the knowledge of which was provided to us with the help of Science. But before that, let’s get to know what a Solar system is?
Solar System
The solar system is the collection of the eight planets and their moons that exist in our universe. These planets and their moons revolve around the Sun in a particular orbit.
They constitute with them the different smaller bodies that exist in our universe like meteors, meteoroids, asteroids, and comets. The planets of the Solar system are:
#1. Mercury
#2. Venus
#3. Earth
#4. Mars
#5. Jupiter
#6. Saturn
#7. Uranus
#8. Neptune
Amazing Solar System Facts for Kindergarten Kids
The Solar System is a place of infinite mystery for kids all around the world. They get amazed after seeing the different yet beautiful planets that exist in our Universe and that too in order.
Kids have a different type of fascination for Stars, planets, astronauts, as well as space.
Facts about Solar System for Kids
#1. The Sun is a star that gives off light and heat and is made up of a thousand gases which constitute it together to make it the hottest thing in the Universe.
#2. The moon revolves only around the Earth which states that not everything in the entire universe revolves only around the Sun.
#3. There are in total 8 planets that exist in our Universe.
#4. The planets that exist in our universe exist in order and that is:
Mercury
Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar system and it is closest to the sun. This planet is named after the Roman god “Mercurius”, god of commerce, the messenger of the gods, and mediator between gods and mortals.
The planet Mercury is extremely dangerous and it has some extreme temperatures and is probably one of the most dangerous aspects of the planet. Mercury is the planet that is closest to the Sun and it takes a total of 59 Earth days to complete one rotation around the sun. This planet takes 88 Earth days to move around the sun and it has no satellite as well as no atmosphere.
Venus
The planet Venus is the second planet in the list of planets in the Universe. It takes Venus a lot longer to rotate once it is on its axis than to complete one orbit of the Sun. Though Mercury is the planet that is the closest to the Sun but still Venus is the hottest planet than Mercury despite it being further away from the Sun. The mean temperature on this planet is 462 degrees celsius.
Venus is the second brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon and its brightness makes it visible during the day if it is clear.
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the sun in our Solar system. The name of this planet comes from the old English and Germanic words which mean “the ground.” This planet is some 4.5 billion years old and like all the other planets, this planet revolves around the Sun in an orbit. This is the only planet that has life on it and it has the effect of gravity on it, which makes it a single planet that is the most unique planet in the Universe.
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Mars
Mars is the only planet that is red in colour and this is because it has iron-rich dust which gives its landscape a rusty-red colour. The gravity on Mars is 38% as compared to that of Earth and if someone weighs 60 pounds on Earth, their weight on the planet Mars is 23 pounds, which is more than half as that of the Earth.
A day on Mars is about 40 minutes longer than a day on Earth.
Jupiter
Jupiter is the biggest planet out of all the eight planets in the Solar system. This planet was named after the king of the gods. This planet has a powerful magnetic field, and it has more moons than any other planet could have in the Solar system.
Saturn
Saturn is the second-largest planet in our solar system after Jupiter. It is only made up of gases and has a lot of helium and is exactly the same kind of gas that one puts in the balloons.
Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun and is much closer than Neptune but is still the coldest planet in the solar system. A season on Uranus lasts one long day that is 42 years.
Neptune
Neptune is the smallest of the gas giants in the solar system. It is more massive than Uranus by about 18%.
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#1. The biggest planet out of all these 8 planets is Jupiter and the smallest is Mercury. On the other hand, the hottest planet is Venus and the coldest is Uranus.
#2. The Earth completes one rotation around the Sun in around 365 days, That is why, a year on the earth is of 365 days, i.e., the number of days required by the Earth to complete one rotation.
#3. Our Galaxy is also known as the Milky Way Galaxy and in this galaxy, the Sun is one of the brightest yet the hottest stars that exist in it.
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#4. The only planet with rings in our Solar system is Saturn and those rings are nothing else other than the dust that revolves all around it – so all that dirt is revolving around this planet and is looking in the form of rings. These rings as told by scientists is also almost entirely made up of water and ice particles.
#5. The Solar system was formed in our Universe around 4.6 billion years ago.
#6. In 2008, along with the other planets – Pluto, which was the 9th planet was termed as a dwarf planet. And thus, now this planet doesn’t exist at all in our Solar system.
Interesting Facts about Solar System for Kids
Now, let’s move forward to learn some amazing facts about the Solar system.
#1. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. And this planet is only as wide as the Atlantic ocean, so 18 Mercuries like this can easily fit into the Earth. It doesn’t have any atmosphere like the Earth and there is no water present on it at all, therefore this planet is also termed a dangerous planet.
#2. Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar system. This planet has some of the largest moons in the solar system.
#3. Neptune is the farthest planet from the Sun. This planet also appears blue from the surface and it has inherited its name from the Roman god of the sea as its reference to the deep blue colour.
#4. Earth is the fifth-largest planet on the Solar system and is the only planet where life exists. This planet has one large satellite, that is the Moon. It is some 1000 years old.
Now, that we have learned so many important yet interesting facts about the Solar system, let’s just move towards the conclusion.
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Conclusion
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