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The First Issue of the Young Chronicle is out: For Age 7-8 Let your child know more about Mars and the Mangalyaan, the Asian Games, the Jammu and Kashmir and Assam Floods, through this issue of the Young Chronicle. Do let us know how your child found the Newspaper.
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YOUNG CHRONICLE October 10th, 2014
Rambo started getting impatient, and asked papa, “do aliens actually exist?” To this papa replied, that there is no proof that they exist.
What’s Mangalyaan? Why is everyone talking about it? So if there were no Aliens on Mars, then why did we
bother exploring Mars at all?” Wondered Pranks and Rambo. Mumma then pitched in, she told them that the Mangalyaan, had gone to explore if there was water
on Mars, many years back. Rambo: But how will scientists know, if there was water before? And if Mars had water, where could it disappear? Mumma: Planets also evolve, Rambo. A lot of properties change. You know, even earth was a cold planet once? It had only ice. Similarly, Mars may have had water, and some form of life. The Scientists will study the Mars surface closely and look for substances that could have only been formed in the presence of water.
Papa: It’s actually a satellite. A satellite is an object that goes round and round a planet. The Mangalyaan will go around Mars, and take pictures which the scientists will study.
Oh, and the rocket you see in the picture, is only needed to launch the satellite. The rocket part, falls off when the satellite leaves the Earth’s atmosphere.
Rohan (a.k.a Rambo) and Priyanka (a.k.a Pranks), the Acha Bacha twins, were very excited that the Mangalyaan had joined the mars orbit. It sounded so cool! But they didn’t quite know what all of this meant.
The Mars Story! “Everyone knows mars as the Red planet, but why is it red?”, exclaimed Rambo! It was then that Papa told him, that Mars had a huge amount of Iron Oxide
present on its surface.
Well, Iron Oxide is the reddish Rust you see on metal objects, when they are exposed to moisture. Rohan was amazed, “So Mars has Rust on it? How do people live there?”. Pranks, then interrupted him, and told him that the presence of aliens was still not confirmed. Papa then exclaimed, let’s not call it Rust, it’s Iron Oxide. He went on to explain that Mars is not always at the same distance from Earth (Mangalyaan), and its orbit is different, and it takes 687 days to complete a round of the sun, which is way longer than 365 days taken by the earth.
THE YOUNG CHRONICLE Finding Mars!
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What was the Mangalyaan, launched for? What purpose did it serve? How far was Mars? Why did it take months to reach Mars? Are there Aliens on Mars?
How and Why is Mars a Red Planet?
What would a Martian look like?
What is Iron Oxide now?
687 days in a year? That is really long.
So what is Mangalyaan? Is it a rocket or a spaceship?
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YOUNG CHRONICLE Jan 29th, 2014
Where are Kashmir and Assam? And what are Floods?
After the gyaan session on Mars and the Mangalyaan. Rambo and Pranks went to the topic of Floods in Jammu and Kashmir, and Assam.
Rambo and Pranks wondered what caused rivers to flood. That’s when mumma told them that Floods occur when it rains a lot, or when a lot of snow melts suddenly. Mostly, places that have a river flowing close by, experience floods. A flood occurs, when a river cannot hold the amount of water flowing. Water then overflows, causing floods.
In Jammu and Kashmir, continuous rainfall led to the flooding of the Jhelum and the Tavi rivers. In Assam, it was the Bhramaputra river which flooded.
Here’s a Prayer for the Flood Victims
Oh dear lord,
Please hear my plea.
Please take care of the people
The Assamese, Jammuites, and Kashmiris.
Give them health and the courage
To build back what they lost.
The families who have lost loved ones,
Need courage, to move ahead at all cost.
Give people the strength
To share and help others,
In this time of need,
We are all bothers and sisters.
A NOTE FOR PARENTS
We request you to log on to Milaap.co.in/AchaBachaKashmirFloodRelief
Where we are selling the badges to gather funds for the rehabilitation of children who have been orphaned and rendered support-less because of the floods in Kashmir. The badges cost only Rs
100, and we will retain INR 50 to cover shipping, technology, and credit card expenses.
These badges are meant to motivate children to be good; and what better than getting them as a
gratification for a good cause.
These badges are a tool. They are to be given to the child, when he/she is obedient or adopts the habits
you want him to (like brushing before sleeping, drinking milk on time etc.), and taken back when
the child doesn’t. When your child wears this badge, he/she and you will feel proud of the way you got it, so do go ahead and make the donation.
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The 17th Asian Games are being held in Incheon, South Korea. Can you find South Korea in the map below?
THE ASIAN GAMES
Archery
Sandeep Kumar, Rajat
Chauhan, Abhishek Verma , won the Gold.
Squash
Saurav Ghosal led the team that won the gold medal.
Shooting
Jitu Rai: Men’s 50-metre pistol
Tennis Hockey
The Indian men's
hockey team won the Gold
Medal Math India has won 57 Medals in all. If India
has won
11 Gold Medals
10 Silver Medals Then how many
Bronze Medals has India
won? Email Your answer at [email protected]
and see your name in the next issue
Boxing
MC Marykom won the Gold in Boxing
Sania Mirza and Saketh Myneni won
the Mixed Doubles.
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The Asian Games Crossword
THE BRAIN TRAIN
Email us your solutions to all the puzzels in the Newspaper, at [email protected] and win Acha Bacha and Achi Bachi Badges. All the Best!!
Word Meanings
Thought for the Week
The Future Depends on what we do in the present.
Mahatma Gandhi
Purpose: Getting to know the truth behind something.
exclaimed: Right next to each other, or close by
moisture: People belonging to a very different place or society, or a different planet. People who look or act strangely. Orbit: To get or give a good impression or image about something.
Bother: The act of imagining something
Exploring: To gain knowledge through reading, observation, and research. To research and get to the depth of something.
Mangalyaan: The top most layer of everything
Disappear: Something that cannot be seen now
Evolve: To change slowly
Properties: Characteristics of something
Substances: Materials
Formed: Created
Presence: Being Present
Launch: To shoot, or throw, or release something
Occur: A happening
Jhelum, Tavi, Bhramaputra: Rivers of India
Sunk: The past tense of Sink.
The Never Ending Questions!
