Thursday 24 September 2009

Burning Questions


We have a 'burning questions' box in our classroom where you can post some questions that you would like to have answered. We open the box once a week and talk about the questions. Here are some 'burning questions' that we still need to find an answer to. If you can find an answer post it as a comment! :)
1. How does a tortoise get out of its shell?
2. How are clouds formed?
3. Who invented scissors?
4. Who invented phones?
5. Why is there a pancake Tuesday?
6. When you get married, why do you use the man's name and not the woman's name?

3 comments:

  1. I think its to celebrate jesus's 40 days he spent in the desert. the answer to why is there such thing as pancake tuesday?

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  2. scissors were in vented in rome by Sir Flinders Petrie

    Sir Flinders Petrie ascribes the development of cross-bladed shears to the First Century. In the Fifth Century, the scribe Isidore of Seville, describes cross-bladed shears or scissors with a center pivot as tools of the barber and tailor

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  3. Clouds form when water evaporates from rivers, ponds, oceans, and lakes. The air containing this evaporated water vapor rises and expands at higher altitudes where the air pressure is lower. The expanding air cools, and as this cooling occurs, the water vapor condenses (changes) from a vapor to a liquid. Many tiny water droplets form and a cloud is born.

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