JANUARY 24, 2020 ● VOL. 10 ● NO. 15 EDITION 5–6
THE BTS EFFECT The South Korean pop stars are inspiring fans around the world to support good causes.
timeforkids.com THE BRIEF WORLD ROYAL EXIT By Brian S. McGrath
Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the duke and duchess of Sussex, made an announcement on January 8. “We intend to step back as ‘senior’ members” of the royal family, they wrote on their official Instagram page. The couple said they plan to support themselves financially. They will lead lives separate from the royal family, splitting their time between the United Kingdom and North America. Many people were surprised by the announcement. No member of the British royal family has ever “stepped back” in this way. A royal’s job is to support charities and do other work that benefits the public. The duke and duchess said they will continue to “honor our duty” to Britain. But they plan to focus on their own charity. They also want privacy as they raise their son, Archie. Both say British newspapers have printed unfair stories about them. Stop and Think! On January 13, Queen Elizabeth issued WHY does the press report on a statement. The royal family is “entirely public figures, such as Prince Harry supportive of Harry and Meghan’s desire to CHRIS JACKSON—GETTY IMAGES and Meghan Markle? What might create a new life as a young family,” she said. THE NEXT STEP Meghan Markle lead a public figure to say that a and Prince Harry greet reporters story is unfair? “We respect and understand their wish to live in London, England, on January 7. a more independent life.”
SPACE TEEN FINDS NEW PLANET By Karena Phan NASA recently announced a new planet. It was discovered by 17-year-old Wolf Cukier during his summer internship at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight DISTANT WORLD Wolf Cukier discovered TOI 1338 b (the black Center, in Maryland. Wolf monitored data collected dot). In this illustration, the planet orbits its two stars. from TESS, a NASA satellite. (TESS stands for FROM LEFT: COURTESY BEN CUKIER; CHRIS SMITH—NASA’S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.) TESS’s mis- according to NASA. “It turned out to be a planet.” sion is to find planets outside our solar system. Called TOI 1338 b, the planet is nearly seven times Three days into his internship, Wolf noticed a the size of Earth. It’s “like Tatooine from Star Wars” signal from planetary system TOI 1338. (TOI stands because it orbits two stars, Wolf told TIME for Kids. for TESS Object of Interest.) “I thought it was a To read an interview with Wolf, go to stellar eclipse, but the timing was wrong,” he said, timeforkids.com.
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COVER: SARA JAYE WEISS—SHUTTERSTOCK 2 Time for Kids January 24, 2020 FOR THE RECORD TIME FOR DESIGN BIRD BROWN “Every is about how many Americans have caught THE FLU in what’s single roll on track to be one of the worst flu seasons in years, according to government data released January 3. you place, you want it DREW WILLIS FOR TIME FOR KIDS to be in the is how high steam, ash, and pebbles shot into the air after the TAAL VOLCANO erupted in the Philippines on correct January 12. Taal is the Philippines’ second- most-active volcano. It spewed ash as far as capital city Manila, 45 miles away. spot,” said MAXTON HERST, a senior at Bullock Creek High School, in Midland, Michigan. Herst and his classmates built a 16-foot-tall pyramid over winter break using 27,434 rolls of toilet paper. They hope to break the world record and raise money for the school robotics team. DATA DEEP DIVE Korean popular music found massive global success last year. Read below to see how BTS and others scored big in 2019.
The number of streams for the song “Boy with Luv,” by BTS, featuring Halsey
The number of streams for the song “Baby Shark.” The catchy tune was created by Pinkfong, a Korean children’s educational brand.
The number of times K-pop band SuperM’s The 1st Mini-Album was bought within a week of its release.
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Fans of K-pop band BTS are of the 100 most influential people. BTS have a partnership with Formula inspired to give back to others. Their next album comes out on E electric cars. It’s meant to raise February 21. awareness about climate change. Jailynne Garcia, 10, loves the South Fans like Jailynne proudly claim The band wants to encourage fans Korean pop group BTS. Her mom, to be members of the BTS ARMY. to embrace clean energy. Michelle Santos, introduced her (ARMY stands for Adorable Rep- One of the biggest BTS cam- to BTS in 2017. “I like how funny resentative M.C. for Youth.) They paigns so far is with the United they are, that they’re good dancers help spread the word to newcomers Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). and singers. Also, that they help about the group and its good works. The campaign is called Love Myself. people,” the New York City fourth BTS are glad their fans feel Its goal is to protect children and grader told TIME for Kids. connected to them. “That was our teens from violence. “Our fans BTS debuted in 2013. The seven goal,” Suga told TIME in 2018, “to have become a major part of this members are J-Hope, Jimin, Jin, create this empathy that people campaign with their action and Jung Kook, RM, Suga, and V. Their can relate to.” enthusiasm,” RM said in a speech songs are mostly in Korean. But at the United Nations in 2018. BTS have become international A BAND THAT GIVES BACK “We truly have the best fans in superstars. They have more than In March 2019, the Korea Times the world.” Love Myself raised 23 million followers on Twitter. reported that Suga donated $2.3 million from album and mer- Their YouTube videos have received $88,000 to the Korea Pediatric chandise sales plus donations more than 3 billion views. They Cancer Foundation. Six months from the band, its had three Number 1 albums on later, RM gave away more than record label, and the Billboard chart in a year. And in $83,000. That went to the Seoul the BTS ARMY.
MARK GARTEN—UNICEF 2019, TIME included BTS on its list Samsung School, to help students with hearing impairment. This year,
FOR YOUTH BTS appear with UNICEF’s Lilly Singh (center left) and Henrietta H. Fore.
4 Time for Kids January 24, 2020 ROCKING EVE BTS performs live in New York City’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve 2019. PAY IT FORWARD Inspired by BTS, Jailynne and her mom joined the BTS fan group One in an ARMY (OIAA). It leads projects to help people in need. The two of them have donated coats and canned goods to charities and planted trees in their neighborhood. “I still have dirt under my finger- nails,” Jailynne jokes. OIAA was founded in 2018. “Some of us thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be amazing if we focused all that power to accomplish good things in
the world?’” says Erika Overton, a SHUTTERSTOCK U.S.-based volunteer. Since then, the group has run more than 20 BIG SPEECH BTS member RM gives a speech at the United Nations, charitable campaigns. in New York, on September 24, 2018. Often, OIAA campaigns are timed to take place around BTS band members’ birthdays. So far, OIAA has raised money for refugees, reforestation, the environment, and more. Most people donate just a dollar. “We focus on microdonations so that everyone can feel like they are contributing toward the goal,” Overton says.
Jailynne hopes the MARK GARTEN—UNICEF BTS ARMY will grow and continue to do good deeds. the BTS ARMY has raised more than “The more people like me that GROWING GOOD $28,000 for One Tree Planted. are doing this,” she says, One popular way for the BTS ARMY to In Malaysia, the fan group BTS for “the more happiness it brings give back is by planting trees. Fans Charity (below) formed the Green Namu to others who need it, and a often donate to One Tree Planted. Project. The group met in November bigger change there is in This nonprofit group plants trees to plant trees in honor of the birth- the world.” around the world. Since August 2019, days of Jimin, Jung Kook, and RM. —By Constance Gibbs
Power Words debut verb: to make a first public appearance empathy noun: the ability to understand another’s feelings refugee noun: a person who flees his or her home country for safety COURTESY GREEN NAMU PROJECT AND BTS FOR CHARITY
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ON THE ROAD Kids in Talladega County, Alabama, do homework during their bus ride.
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Schools are finding creative and technology tools as some of your the Internet. (These work in some, ways to keep kids online. classmates—that’s the homework but not all, rural areas.) Students in gap,” Beth Holland told TIME for several communities have created Students who go to school in Kids. She works at the Consortium Wi-Fi maps. Those let kids know Talladega County, Alabama, are for School Networking. about local businesses, such as cafés, given a laptop or a tablet. They which provide Internet to their use these devices in class and take DRIVING CHANGE customers. them home at the end of the day. The homework gap isn’t just a Talladega County created what But Talladega County is in a rural problem in Talladega County. it calls “rolling study halls.” Many part of Alabama. Many students live According to a Pew Research Center students ride the bus to and from in small towns or in the countryside. study, about one in five homes school each day along country roads. The towers and underground cables with school-age kids doesn’t have The average ride each way is an hour. that provide Internet access don’t high-speed Internet access. And Some are as long as 90 minutes. always reach these areas. In some 17% of teens say that lack of steady In 2018, wireless Internet was homes, it’s impossible even to access Internet access sometimes means installed on six school buses with the Internet. they can’t do their homework. “Kids long routes in rural areas. Now Experts have a name for this are being excluded from learning students can do homework during situation. They call it the “home- opportunities,” Holland says. their daily rides. A teacher comes work gap,” because it’s difficult— Schools across the country along to help. nearly impossible—for some students have found creative ways to close “It’s been a game changer,” to do homework that requires them the homework gap. In some school Vicky Ozment says. She’s the deputy to get online. “When you go home at libraries, students can borrow superintendent for Talladega County the end of the day and you can no mobile hot spots, which use Schools. “It leveled the playing longer access the same information cell-phone networks to access field.” —By Shay Maunz
GET MORE AT TIMEFORKIDS.COM. 6 Time for Kids January 24, 2020 MEDIA LITERACY FIND THE FACTS Fact-checkers help make sure included in it. How does he do this? of books’ in an article, I need to find publications are trustworthy and First, he reads each article. He out if it’s really a ‘stack’ or if it’s just error-free. underlines information that can be a couple of books,” Fabry says. proven. Examples include numbers, More than half of teens learn about historical details, and the spelling ALL IN A DAY’S WORK the news from social-media sources of proper nouns. He then looks Sifting through multiple sources to and YouTube videos. That’s accord- for a primary source to confirm the verify one fact can sometimes be ing to a 2019 Common Sense Media information. A primary source is a tough. But the job comes with perks. survey. But the information on those firsthand account, such as an official “I really enjoy getting to work with sites is not always trustworthy. website or autobiography. writers and editors,” Fabry says. “There’s more misinformation If Mamone can’t locate a primary “It can be very collaborative.” out there than ever,” Jordan Mamone source, he’ll look for three secondary Mamone sees another advantage: says. He works as a fact-checker at sources to confirm a fact. Second- “The topics that you’re researching TIME for Kids. Mamone believes ary source describe or analyze are constantly changing,” he says. people should be careful about where what a primary source says. They “Today I’m researching Popeyes they get their news. “It’s really impor- include newspaper articles and chicken sandwiches for an article, tant to learn about your sources and to books. But Mamone can’t rely on and tomorrow it could be hurri- think about where you’re consuming every secondary source he finds. canes. So you’re always learning!” information,” he says. He avoids those that are outdated or —By Rebecca Mordechai Like fact-checkers at other news biased. He also skips sources that organizations, Mamone works with might not have been fact-checked, Power Words writers and editors to make sure such as personal blogs. people can trust what they read. Merrill Fabry is a fact-checker biased adjective: prejudiced for or for TIME magazine. She says paying against someone or something GETTING IT RIGHT attention to even the smallest details collaborative adjective: involving two or more people working Before an issue of TFK is published, is an important part of the job. “For together Mamone verifies all of the facts example, if someone writes ‘a stack
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ANIMAL ADVENTURES Dr. John Dolittle is a veterinarian with a special talent: there to help. They include a gorilla, a duck, and a polar He can talk to animals. The character was introduced bear. Tommy Stubbins, Dr. Dolittle’s young apprentice, 100 years ago in The Story of Doctor Dolittle, the first in a also joins him on the trip. series of classic novels for kids. Over the years, the vet’s Actor HARRY COLLETT (pictured, center right), 16, adventures have been made into movies. Dolittle is the plays Tommy in the movie. “When Tommy goes on this latest. massive quest with Dolittle, he learns to bring out his In the new film, England’s Queen Victoria becomes inner self,” Harry told TFK Kid Reporter Mira McInnes. ill. Dr. Dolittle sets out in search of a cure. During his “He’s becoming a more brave and exciting person.” travels, he encounters old enemies—but his friends are Dolittle hit theaters January 17.
IGGY’S WORLD Nine-year-old Iggy Frangi isn’t afraid to be himself. He has a lot of great ideas, even if they don’t always go according to plan. The Best of Iggy is about the misadventures of this mischievous boy. Author ANNIE BARROWS calls him a “kid who is living in the moment.” Barrows also wrote the popular series Ivy + Bean. It’s about two girls who are best friends, even though their person- alities are very different. Barrows told TFK that Iggy’s character was inspired by the young readers she met while traveling to schools to talk about the books. Some kids seemed to be troublemakers, like Iggy. But Barrows knew there was more to them. “Just because somebody calls you a troublemaker doesn’t mean you’re bad at all,” she says.
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