Table of contents for Issue 320 - April 2022 in MiniMag

If you’re a fan of We Bare Bears, then you’ll definitely fall in love with Cartoon Network’s brand-new series, We Baby Bears, a spin-off of our all-time favourite animated series. After making a wish upon a shooting star, we get to follow Grizz, Panda, and Ice Bear as babies as they use their magical cardboard box to travel to different worlds to find a place they can call home. Along the way, they take us to imaginative lands where we will meet new friends, hear stories about some of our favourite fairy tales, and might even just learn a lesson or two! So come along and jump into the magic box with Cartoon Network as the Baby Bears discover that ‘home’ can be wherever they are, as long as they’re…

Since 1996, Scifest Africa has been educating and enlightening its audiences, offering a crucial doorway into the world of Science, Technology, Innovation, Engineering and Mathematics for young people. Scifest Africa identifies and designs unique interactive events and educational resources with scientific integrity to advance science, facilitate learning in an informal and non-threatening way, and provide learners with an opportunity to discover science outside the classroom! ONLINE INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS WITH MARSHA KALIKA Do you want a fun way to keep your kids engaged at home? Join Marsha Kalika, Chief Education Officer for Outreach at KwaZulu Natal-Museum, for a hands-on learning experience. Learners can actively participate in engaging science projects using basic ingredients at home – including how to make their own homemade plantable seed paper, compost in a bottle and create…

What can you do to give malaria a swat? Malaria is one of the most serious tropical diseases, which is caused by the transmission of parasites to people through the bites of infected female mosquitoes. If untreated, malaria can become a potentially life-threatening disease. Malaria is preventable and curable, yet still it caused over 600 000 deaths, mostly among African children, in 2020. Prevention is the best cure! If you know that you will be entering a high-risk malaria area, it is important to remember the ABCs of malaria prevention before you go: • Be A ware of malaria risk • Avoid mosquito Bites • Use Chemoprophylaxis (malaria pills) • Try to Detect malaria early • Treat malaria Effectively How to avoid mosquito bites 1 Infected mosquitoes mostly bite at…

How do humans survive in space? There is no oxygen in space, so all manned spacecraft carry a life-support system. This supplies air for people to breathe. The system also includes equipment to keep the air at a comfortable temperature and pressure, and to remove carbon dioxide and odours. How does space travel affect people? Gravity in space is much weaker than it is on Earth. When people travel in space, they seem to become weightless. This often makes them feel sick. Their bodies do not have to work as hard, because they are not fighting gravity to sit or stand up. If they stay in space for a long time, the lack of gravity makes their muscles start to waste away. Exercise and a specialised diet help to combat…

Help Chickenhare figure out how to get to the Hamster of Darkness! Spot 7 differences between these 2 images! Set in a lush fantasy world, the film follows the adventures of Chickenhare, a young hero born half chicken and half hare, who was adopted by King Peter, a famous hare adventurer. Eager to fit in and feel loved despite his differences, Chickenhare is obsessed with adventuring … no matter how clumsy he is. When the Kingdom’s greatest villain – his very own uncle – escapes from jail and threatens to overthrow his father, Chickenhare embarks on an epic race against time along with Abe, a sarcastic turtle, and Meg, a reckless female martial arts expert, to stop him. IN CINEMAS 22 APRIL…

The International Day of Human Space Flight is the annual celebration, held on 12 April, of the anniversary of the first human space flight by Yuri Gagarin. It was proclaimed at the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 7 April 2011, a few days before the 50th anniversary of the flight. The Voyager Golden Record shot into space in 1977 with a message from humanity to the cosmos – and decades later, it stands as a reminder that we are all connected.…

Empowering and inspiring, Wonderfully Made is a book of positive affirmations for brown girls of all shades, sizes and shapes. This book teaches girls to not only embrace, but to truly celebrate their unique appearance and talents while encouraging them to dream big and to be creative. Build confidence and resilience from a young age with easy-to-follow rhyming text and bright inclusive illustrations that reflect proudly South African children. Available in English, isiXhosa, Setswana and isiZulu FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT PAN MACMILLAN’S CHILDREN’S BOOKS, follow us on Pan Macmillan SA Kids & YA or @PanMacmillanSAkids or @PanMacKids Email Liesbet@panmacmillan.co.za for School catalogues and FREE teacher’s notes.…

When building a home, people have to take into account where the house will be and how the owners will use it. In KwaZulu-Natal some people live in domed huts made of wooden poles and mud. The thick walls keep the huts cool in hot weather. These huts would not work well as dwellings in areas where it rains a lot, because too much water can make them crumble. Where all grasses grow, people weave the dried grass together to make thatched huts. Tropical areas like the coast of Mozambique are hot, but wet. People who live there make their houses from materials that are easy to find, such as palm leaves and woven grasses. Eskimos in Alaska or Canada build their houses from blocks of ice. These dome-shaped houses…

YOU WILL NEED: • a one-metre measuring stick • Plastic bag with handles • Potatoes Try the following activity to see how beams should be used to support the most mass without bending or breaking. Hold one end of the metre stick so that the flat end side with the numbers is facing up. Ask a friend to put the handles of the plastic bag about 10 to 15 cm from the other end of the stick. Hold on tightly with both hands as your partner puts a few potatoes in the bag. Does the stick look like it is bending? Now turn the stick so that the side with the numbers face sideways. Have your partner put the same potatoes into the bag and see if the stick bends.…

Where does space begin? From Earth, space begins at the outer edge of our planet’s atmosphere. There is no clear line between the atmosphere and space – the atmosphere gradually fades away until it merges into space about 500 km above Earth. However, there are tiny traces of atmosphere even farther out than this. Where is Earth in space? Earth is a tiny speck of matter in space. It is one of eight planets which circle round the Sun. In turn, the Sun is one of several hundred billion stars, which together form a great star island in space called the Milky Way Galaxy. There are billions of galaxies in space. Together, all the galaxies and the enormous voids between them make up the Universe. How much space is there?…