News For Kids

Every Day Is a Radio Day Long ago, people had no cellphones. There was no social media. There was no Internet! In Taiwan, there were no TV stations! 很久以前，人們沒有手機、網路跟社交媒體。那時候，台灣也沒有電視台。 How did news travel to people far away? There was radio then. And there's radio now! 那要怎麼讓在很遠地方的人知道新聞呢？當時就是用收音機，現在也是！ Radio is free! It's on every day,...

Clean-Air Heroes on Wheels Narrator: Around the world, millions of buses make lots of smoke. The smoke makes air pollution. Countries are trying to make their air cleaner. How is China fighting air pollution? 世界各地的公車排放很多廢氣。很多國家想要更乾淨的空氣，中國是如何對抗空氣污染呢? China's cities are using many electric buses, or e-buses. E-buses don't make smoke! They charge their batteries...

Big Sea Monster Found in the UK There's a big sea monster in the UK. It looks very scary. It's twelve meters long. That's as big as a house! 英國發現一隻巨大的海怪，牠長達12公尺，跟一棟房子一樣大。 It has a lizard's head. But its skull is two meters long! And its mouth has one hundred thirty sharp teeth. This monster might eat you in one bite! 牠的頭部像蜥蜴，光是頭骨就長達兩公尺，還有130顆牙齒。...

Moos to the Moon What's this smelly thing? Ewww! It's cow poop! Scientists call it cow dung. Most people want to throw it away. It smells bad! But guess what? It can be very useful! 科學家把牛糞叫做 cow dung，牛糞雖然很臭，但其實非常有用! In Japan, a space company wants to use cow dung fuel to make rockets fly! Whoa! 日本有一家太空公司想把牛糞當作火箭的燃料。 Rockets need to fly very high and very...

Chinstrap Penguins Are the Best Nap Masters Hey! Wake up! Why are you napping? Are you a chinstrap penguin? They love to nap! These penguins have a black line under their chin. They look like they're wearing motorcycle helmets with chin straps. They're chinstrap penguins. 這些企鵝的下巴有一條黑色的紋路，看起像戴了安全帽一樣，他們是帽帶企鵝。 Scientists are studying chinstrap penguins in Antarctica...

The "Mite-iest" Cheese in the World Do you know what people say about stinky tofu? The worse it smells, the better it tastes! 大家都說臭豆腐越臭越好吃。 In Europe, people say the same about cheese. They have lots of cheeses over there. What's the weirdest one? Mite cheese. 歐洲人也說起司越臭越好吃，他們有各種起司，最奇怪的是?起司。 No, no, no! It's not MICE cheese! It's MITE cheese! Mites are very...

What Killed the Dinosaurs? Once upon a time, there were big dinosaurs living on Earth. Why did they go away? 很久以前，恐龍還活在地球上，那牠們為什麼消失了呢? Some people say a very big space rock hit the Earth in Mexico. The "kaboom" was so big that it hit all the dinosaurs. Did this happen? 據說是一顆超大的隕石墜落在墨西哥，讓所有的恐龍滅亡。真的是這樣嗎? Some smart scientists have another idea....

Science Helps Man Walk Again Science is great! Science finds ways to help people. It's helping Mr. Oskam. Twelve years ago, he had a bad motorcycle accident. After the accident, his legs didn't work. He wasn't able to walk. He used a wheelchair for a long time. 12年前 Oskam先生遭遇車禍，雙腿無法行走，有很長一段時間需要依靠輪椅。 Then scientists put implants in Mr. Oskam's body. These implants are...

AI Makes Crunchy Chips Quiet Do you like potato chips, corn chips, or other crunchy food? Many gamers like crunchy food. They crunch on chips. They play games on their computers and crunch. 你喜歡吃酥脆的零食嗎? 很多遊戲玩家喜歡邊打電玩邊吃洋芋片。 Using a microphone, they talk to other gamers. Some gamers crunch and talk to other gamers… at the same time! 玩家會用麥克風跟其他的玩家對話，有一些玩...

New Zealand's Wacky Bird of the Century New Zealand's Bird of the Century is famous around the world. Do you know what kind of bird it is? No? The Bird of the Century is the puteketeke! It's a beautiful bird that looks and acts wacky. 你知道紐西蘭票選的「世紀鳥」是什麼鳥嗎? 是冠鷿鵜喔! 牠是一種外表跟行為都很奇怪的一種鳥。 The puteketeke's head has black feathers on top. They stand up! Orange feath...

Who’s That Chicken in the Mirror? Humans are very smart. When we look in a mirror, we don’t see someone else! We know we’re looking at ourselves. 人類非常聰明，當我們看鏡子的時候，我們知道鏡子裡面的是我們自己。 Elephants can also see themselves in a mirror. They’re smart too. So can dolphins. How about… chickens?? 大象、海豚都認得鏡子裡的自己，那雞呢? Roosters are boy chickens. Last year, scientis...

These Superhero Fish Lizards Need Our Help! Do you know what axolotls are? They're fishy lizards with cute little faces. They have big eyes. And their smiles are funny! 你知道什麼是住在水裡的蠑螈嗎? 他們有一些像蜥蜴，長得很可愛，有著大大的眼睛。 Some say axolotls are "water monsters"! Why?! It's because they stay in the water all the time. Axolotls have superhero superpowers. When they lose an arm...

Dozens of Dads Clap for Kids There's a cool team of dads in the USA: The Flash Dads! 美國有一群很酷的爸爸團隊，叫做快閃爸爸。 They're tall dads, short dads, young dads, and granddads! They're thin dads, strong dads, dads with glasses, and dads with beards! There are lots of different Flash Dads, with lots of different jobs. There are firefighter dads, police officer dads, teacher dads, mailman dad...

These Kids Take the School Boat How do you go to school? Do you take the bus? Do you go by scooter or car? 你每天怎麼上學?你是搭公車、機車還是汽車? What happens when it rains very hard? Maybe you put on a raincoat. You open your umbrella. Then you go to school. When the rain stops, everything's fine. But some kids' lives are changed by rain. 如果下大雨，你會穿雨衣、撐雨傘去上學，雨停了就沒事了。但...

Doctors Give Man New Eye Doctors are always finding new ways to help people. Now, for the first time ever, they’ve given someone a new eye! His name is Aaron … 醫生有史以來第一次成功移植一顆新的眼球給一個叫作Aaron的人。 Aaron works with electricity. Electricity is full of power. It’s made in power stations. Power lines take electricity to our homes. Aaron在電力公司上班。發電廠生產電，電線再將電傳...

This Ferryboat Flies People in Sweden made a flying ferryboat! Wait… what's a ferryboat? Ferryboats are buses on water. They carry many people. People use them to go to work or school. Some ferries carry cars too. Ferryboat渡輪就像水上的公車，載人上班、上學，也可以載車子。 Ferries need to push lots of water so they can move. That takes a lot of energy. All that water makes ferries slow.* *It also...

Red Hot Seat Surprises Man Narrator: Let's go jogging. We're so full of energy! Electricity is full of energy too. It moves. Think of water flowing in a river. That's how electricity moves. 電力充滿能量，電力流動的方式就像水在河裡流動一樣。 Circuits start and end in the same place. Running tracks are circuits. Hey … let's jog on a circuit! We can jog around and around and around… Circuits help ele...

Big Iceberg Floats and Feeds the Ocean What is A23a? It's two times bigger than New Taipei City. It's almost as tall as Taipei 101! 什麼是A23a? 它比新北市還大兩倍，跟台北101一樣高。 A23a is an iceberg! That's a mountain of ice. Most of it is underwater. It's very heavy. But it floats in the ocean, the same as an ice cube in your milk tea! A23a是一座冰山。冰山有一大部分沉在水裡，而且很重。但是它可...

NASA's Super-Quiet Supersonic Jet Let's have a quick quiz! Listen: what's this? This sound is a sonic boom. It happens when something moves faster than the speed of sound! 這是聲爆，當物體移動的速度比聲音快就會發生聲爆。 Sound moves very fast through the air. Airplanes do too. The fastest airplanes are jets. Some jets fly faster than sound! They're supersonic jets. 聲音在空氣中傳得很快，飛機也是這...

Big Search Fails to Find Monster Are monsters real? There's Nian during the Lunar New Year. Nian has a lion's face with sharp teeth. People say this monster eats people and animals! But don't worry, Nian isn't real. 真的有怪獸嗎? 農曆新年有年獸。牠有?獅子的臉跟尖牙。大家都說年獸會吃人跟動物，但別擔心，年獸不是真的。 How about the Loch Ness Monster? Many people think it's real. They think it lives...

Woman Eats Hundreds of Hotpots Hotpot is great fun. Everyone cooks together! And hotpot is traditional. Taiwanese families eat hotpot on Lunar New Year's Eve for good luck. 吃火鍋很有趣，也是一種傳統。台灣家庭會在農曆新年圍爐吃火鍋。 Hotpot changes everywhere you go. Thailand, Japan, Cambodia, and Laos have their own kinds of hotpot. Switzerland has a kind of hotpot too, made with cheese! And Chin...

Happy New Year! There are many New Year's traditions. You know some of them. There's fireworks and kissing someone at midnight on New Year's Eve. There are many more. Some of them are surprising! 新年快樂! 新年有很多不同的習俗，像是放煙火或是在跨年的時候互相親吻。 In Europe, some people throw out sofas or other furniture at midnight on New Year's Eve. Watch out!! They throw the furniture out of th...

K*News for Kids 文字檔 (國小) ________________________________ In Taiwan, people love staying up late on New Year's Eve and watching fireworks. People countdown to midnight and then… kaboom! 在台灣，我們很喜歡熬夜跨年看煙火秀。 Most fireworks shows are not long. Kaohsiung City's 2023 fireworks show was three minutes long. 煙火秀通常不會維持很長的時間。高雄2023年煙火秀只有三分鐘長。 This time, Kaoh...

What can you see in the sky? You can see the moon and the stars. But now, with binoculars, you can also see a bag. 抬頭看天空可以看到月亮跟星星，但現在用雙筒望遠鏡你也可以看到一個包包。 What? A bag in the sky? How did that get there? It started with two astronauts in space. They were fixing a space station. They wore space suits and worked with special tools. They kept their tools in a tool bag. T...

Are you generous? A generous person gives money or help in a kind way. Maybe you're generous. But are you as generous as Geoffrey Holt was? 你是一個慷慨的人嗎? 你能像Geoffrey Holt一樣慷慨嗎? Who was Geoffrey Holt? Geoffrey was a nice, quiet man. People liked him. He lived in a small town in America called Hinsdale. 他是誰呢? Geoffrey是個安靜又友善的人，他住在美國一個叫 Hinsdale的小鎮。 Geoffrey kn...