Science According To Children (5th and 6th graders).  These are
authenthic answers to homework and test questions:


Question: What is one horsepower?
Answer:   One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a
          horse 500 feet in one second.

You can listen to thunder after lightening and tell how close you came
to getting hit. If you don't hear it, you got hit, so never mind.

Talc is found on rocks and on babies.

When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with
atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with
explosions.

When people run around and around in circles, we say they are
crazy. When planets do it, we say they are orbiting.

Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.

While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the
sun, it is really only centrificating.

Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any
direction.

South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still
manage.

Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change
back into a sun in the daytime.

Water freezes at thirty-two degrees and boils at 212 degrees. There
are 180 degrees between freezing and boiling because there are 180
degrees between north and south.

There are twenty-six vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet
to be discoverd.

Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils, while others
preferred to be oil.

Genetics explain why you look like your father, and if you don't, why
you should.

Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know
they're there.

Some oxygen molecules help fires burn, while others help make water,
so sometimes it's brother against brother.

Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have
never been able to make out the numbers.

We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation
gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on.

In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are
twice as many H's as O's.

Clouds just keep circling the earth around and around and
around. There is not much else to do.

Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be
called a drop, it does.

In some rocks, you can find the fossil footprints of fishes.

Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dogs tongue will kill
the strongest man.

Thunder is a rich source of loudness.

Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound.

It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in
other places.

The wind is like the air, only pushier.