In case of an accident, students will stay safe in their seats.

Students would not be able to exit the bus as quickly in case of a car accident or fire if they had seatbelts on.

Students and teachers will spend less time reviewing old material and more time learning new information at the beginning of the school year.

Families will be able to spend more time on vacation before the school year starts.

After-school activities will help students be opened up to many job opportunities.

Students may not have the time after school for activities due to homework or at-home responsibilities.

Activities will help students with social skills as they learn how to do activities with other students.

Families would save money by not buying as many clothes for school.

Uniforms are expensive.

Students would not be able to express individuality at school.

Students would not break the dress code at school.

Students would not bully others for their clothing.

Phones cause distractions in classrooms.

Phones are essential in case of emergencies at school.

Phones create access to cyberbullying in school.

Phones help students look up information in the classroom.

Phones help students cheat in classrooms.

The longest-lives creature in the insect world is the queen termit (ant).

She has been known to live for 50 years.

During that time, the queen can lay over 30,000 eggs each day.

So in her 50 years of life, it is possible for her to give birth to half a billion children.

Some termite hills can be over six meters high.

Most people could never own a book.

Then sometime between 1450 and 1460, Johannes Gutenberg got the idea of carving separate letters and moving them to make new words.

Gutenberg died at the age of 68.

This was the invention of moveable type.

From then on, the numbers of books grew quickly.

`The solar system is believed to have formed, perhaps 5 billion years ago, from a spinning cloud of gas called a nebula.

As this nebula contracted, it began to spin faster and faster.

Probably, it spun off rings of planetary matter as it became more disk-like.

These rings later contracted into planets.

Earth is the third planet from the Sun.

Some people do not know that the whale is a mammal just like a human.

Humpback whales will sometimes leap clear up out of the water, an act known as breaching.

A humpback whale can weigh thirty tons and measure 15 meters in length.

So, it takes an enormous amount of energy for a whale to breach.

The largest organ in the human body is the skin.

One of the skin’s functions is to help regulate the amount of body heat that flows in and out of the body.

Heavy smoking ages skin quickly.

When it is cold, we cover the skin with extra layers of clothing to slow down the outward flow of heat.

When it is hot, evaporation of sweat cools us down.

The lake contains about one sixth of the world’s fresh water supply.

It contains over 1200 species of animals and 500 species of plants.

Many of these plants and animals are not to be found anywhere else on earth.

The name Baikal comes from the Mongolian word that means “nature”.

Lake Baikal in Central Asia, is the deepest lake in the world.

Ice floats on water because it is not quite as dense as water.

The chemical formula for water is H2O.

If ice were denser than water, then lakes and other bodies of water would freeze from the bottom up during winter.

Fish would surface and eventually die.

Bats are able to maneuver in the dark even if they are blindfolded.

Bats emit very high pitched sound waves through their nostrils.

The reflection of these sound waves, reaching their sensitive ears, enables bats to avoid obstacles.

In this way, they can capture even very tiny insects.

Many bats prefer to eat fruit rather than insects.

The cheetah, which is found mostly in Africa and India, is one of the fastest land animals.

Cheetahs, like leopards, are covered in spots.

They have long and muscular legs.

Cheetahs have been known to sprint at a speed of over 60 miles per hour.

On a long distance run, however, a cheetah can be overtaken by a horse.

The larger an animal is , the larger the diameter of its legs.

An antelope has slender legs.

A horse’s legs are somewhat thicker and those of an elephant are even thicker.

If the elephant were much larger, its legs would touch one another and it wouldn’t be able to move at all.

Indian elephants have smaller ears than African elephants.