For the Week of October 18th, 2026

Curiosity-provoking links to get your students (and you) wondering!

1. A man sailed a giant, hollowed-out pumpkin across a busy shipping channel to an island. How big does a pumpkin need to be to hold a person?
2. Still need a costume? This one turns you into a walking dinosaur skeleton.
3. Animals at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo get Halloween pumpkins as treats. Pause before each animal reaches its pumpkin and ask students to predict what it will do.
4. Kenichi Kanazawa “plays” a steel table, and the vibrations push colored sand into patterns.
5. Watch a volcano build a brand-new island off the coast of Japan.