scienceshack: 2012

Friday, 26 October 2012

Halloween

Halloween is on wednesday the 31st of October 2012.

Halloween is an annual event that occurrs on the 31st of October every year, another name for Halloween is 'All Hallows' Eve'.

People do lots of different things to do with Halloween on the 31st of october or around thatt time such as Trick or Treating, carving pumpkins, telling spooky stories, playing tricks and watching horror movies.

Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Pictures of the Olympic torch

less than 2 days until the Olympics begin!!!

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Olympic torch

The other day I held the Olympic torch, and I've also seen it another time and i'm soon going to see it again. So here are some facts about the Olympic torch! The Olympic torch has 8000 holes each stands for an Olympic torch bearer, there are 8000 Olympic torch bearers. And there are also 8000 torches.

Saturday, 23 June 2012

Olympics

I can't wait until the olympics!

Isn't it so annoying when you need to know the date and time of something!!!
Well here are the dates so you know when you can watch it.
I hope you don't miss it!
27th July- 12th August 2012

Here is a little Quiz for you to answer to yourself or test on your friends:

A) What is your favourite olympic sport?
B) Who is your favourite olympian ( it can be through history or a modern athlete or retired)
C) Which olympic sport do you think you would get a gold for?
D) Which olympic sport do you think you would get a silver for?
E) Which olympic sport do you think you would get a bronze for?

Here is some interesting information on stopping the olympics in the past.

Did you know the olympics was stopped for nearly 2000 years!!!

Do You Know Why?
Well at one point the Greeks had a new leader called Theodosius.
He was a Christian and the olympic games were in honour of Zeus who is a greek god not a Christian so therefore he banned the Olympic games for nearly 2000 years!!!