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8 Questions for Jane Goodall

April 5, 2023

Jane Goodall is the world’s leading expert on chimpanzees. She began studying them in what is now Gombe Stream National Park, in Tanzania, in the 1960s. She spoke with TFK Kid Reporter Shaivi Moparthi. 1. What inspired you to dedicate…

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Be a TFK Kid Reporter

March 16, 2023

Do you dream of being a reporter? Enter the TFK Kid Reporter Contest for a chance to report for our magazines and website. TFK editors will choose up to 10 talented students as TFK Kid Reporters for the 2023–2024 school…

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The Youth Report

March 16, 2023

TIME for Kids is looking for the next generation of TFK Kid Reporters. Our Kid Reporters write stories, review books and movies, and do cool interviews. “I have had amazing opportunities to meet and learn about people who are making…

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Technology

The Kid Report: No Artist Required

March 9, 2023

The artificial intelligence (AI) program Midjourney searches through images on the Internet, and finds patterns in those images to create new ones. But AI programs like this one could be using artwork without the artists’ permission. You can read about…

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The Slugger

March 2, 2023

In late September, Aaron Judge stood in the batter’s box at Yankee Stadium. The voices of 40,000 fans hushed as the pitcher wound up. Judge smacked the ball deep into the left-center-field bleachers. It was his 60th home run of…

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The Kid Report: Spring Ahead

March 2, 2023

On March 12, clocks will “spring forward,” giving us an extra hour of sunlight in the evening until November. Sounds good, right? But daylight saving time is a hotly debated topic. Even among lawmakers and experts, there’s disagreement over whether…

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History

8 Questions for Myria Perez

March 1, 2023

Myria Perez is a fossil preparator and educator at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, in Washington, D.C. She spoke with TFK Kid Reporter Elisha Lee. 1. What exactly do you do for your job? I work with fossils,…

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Media Literacy

TIME for Kids Explains Podcast

February 17, 2023

In this month's podcast, TFK Kid Reporter Mason Langer talks with TIME senior editor Sean Gregory. They discuss "The Slugger," a story about baseball's Aaron Judge. This past season, Judge set a new home-run record, joining ranks with New York…

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It's Rocket Science

February 16, 2023

If you enjoy learning about interesting jobs, find this article and more like it on Your Hot Job, TFK's new career-focused website for kids. What does your future hold? Joan Melendez Misner is an aerospace integration engineer at NASA. She’s…

TIME for Kids Explains Podcast

February 9, 2023

In this month's podcast, TFK Kid Reporter Zarita Asgar talks with the prizewinning author and newly inaugurated National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Meg Medina. They talk about how Medina plans to inspire and engage young readers across the country.…

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Let's Talk with Jason Chin

January 18, 2023

Jason Chin is an author and illustrator. His new book, The Universe in You, explores life under the microscope. “It’s about looking really close at the world around us,” he says, “and the very, very small things we’ve discovered.” Chin…

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Pickleball Craze

January 12, 2023

This past fall, Ed Pluskota introduced pickleball to his gym class at North Fayette Elementary School, in Georgia. The kids had never heard of it. “Is it tennis?” they asked, “or is it ping-pong?” Pluskota had to sell them on…

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The Kid Report: Speaking from Space

January 12, 2023

Astronaut Nicole Mann is the first Native American woman in space. Last October, she blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon. Read what she has to say about her life and her experience on…

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Arts

The Kid Report: Musical Nature

January 5, 2023

The 18th Ice Music Festival Norway is scheduled to take place in Europe next month. You can read about this cool event in “Musical Nature,” in this week’s TIME for Kids. Twelve-year-old Eivind Sehl Mørch has attended the festival before,…

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A Rover's Journey

January 5, 2023

Good Night Oppy is a feel-good film. It follows NASA’s Opportunity rover as the device explores Mars. The rover launched in 2003. Its mission was to look for clues that there was once water on the Red Planet. That would…

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Science

8 Questions for Vanessa E. Wyche

December 14, 2022

Vanessa E. Wyche is the director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, in Houston, Texas. She oversees programs that will send astronauts to the moon and Mars. TFK Kid Reporter Shaivi Moparthi spoke with Wyche at the space center. 1. What…

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Media Literacy

TIME for Kids Explains Podcast

December 7, 2022

In this month's podcast, TFK Kid Reporter David Murtagh talks with Editor at Large for TIME magazine, Jeffrey Kluger. They discuss "Operation Asteroid," a story about NASA's DART mission. It recently bumped an asteroid off its course, to prove that…

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Good Reads

December 7, 2022

We asked TFK Kid Reporters to read and review some of the season’s best books. Here’s what they had to say. The Bridge Battle The Bridge Battle, by Jaqueline Davies, is a captivating story about kindness and determination. Evan,…

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8 Questions for Ernő Rubik

November 30, 2022

Have you heard of the Rubik’s Cube? This mind-bending puzzle is one of the best-selling toys of all time. Recently, TFK Kid Reporter Shaan Glazer met up with its Hungarian inventor, Ernő Rubik, in New York City. 1. When—and why—did…

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TIME for Kids Explains Podcast

November 4, 2022

In this month's podcast, TFK Kid Reporter Gabri Blankson talks with TIME magazine's senior international correspondent, Aryn Baker. They discuss "Miracle Trees," a story about the mangrove trees that could save Karachi, Pakistan, from climate disaster. To hear more TIME…

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