‘Calling All Jr. Scientists!’ is a part of Google Science Fair that is now open. All young people ages 13-18 can freely compete for internships and scholarships.

Google is looking for the best, smartest, brightest, young scientists from around the world. Everything they have to do is to submit unusual, creative projects that are relevant to the world today.

Have a look at the following video, it is aimed aimed to encourage young people to enter a competition. They can get all sorts of awesome prizes, and the best ones look like a fantastic trip to the Galapagos Islands or a scholarship.

Science connects the world!

Teaching children who have learning disabilities can be a major challenge for parents as well as teachers. Most children know or learn how to deal with problems as they are capable of processing information and have the ability to organize information into a plan or strategy to tackle a problem. But there are also children who find learning to process information a very uphill task. This is not because they are not diligent enough but this could be a disorder.

This disorder has only been discovered very recently. Children suffering from this neurological disorder have trouble understanding or organizing information and have very little ability to reason. They have difficulty in almost all aspects of learning, be it education or day to day chores. Although it is a challenging task to teach these children, proper and a strategic approach can help these kids learn more effectively.

The first step of teaching these children would be to understand the type of inability or disorder they have. There are various types of learning disabilities, like dyslexia, dyscalculia, disgraphia etc. Identifying the right one is the first step in helping them. These children are generally not very quick learners and need special attention to understand even basic things. It is very difficult for these children to connect ends and come to a conclusion or solution. Special care must be taken and one should be careful not to make them realize about their disability. This can have adverse affect of their self esteem.

The key to teaching these children is in understanding them and identifying ways which they can relate to. Some effective ways could be use of pictures, real life images and connecting them to things that they often see.

If there is one thing that is the key to every child’s learning success then it is none other than discovering your child’s learning style. Parents often find it difficult to create true learning success for their child. There are mainly three types of learning styles that child adopts; read about them and learn how to develop your child’s learning success.

Visual, auditory and physical are the three most common learning styles children adopt. Visual learners enjoy learning by watching, they either use art and drawing or mazes and puzzles or read maps and charts to learn. Such children can be taught best by drawing symbols and making charts to organize information.

Second type of learning style is auditory style in which children like telling stories and playing word games and even using tape recorders. Such children can be taught well by reading out loud, making them study with a partner and encouraging them to talk and even writing out a sequence of steps will work fine in teaching them.

In physical learning style, children like to manipulate and handle thing out and also like just a short attention and they like showing things rather than telling you about them. Such children can be taught by creating and performing skits and dances and also by making models.