We get taught a lot of things at school, but sometimes it would have helped if our teachers had found a way to demonstrate something to us visually. We’re not talking about some kind of abstract diagram here — what both children and adults need is a real-life example to make sense of an idea.
That’s why we picked out a selection of 20 GIFs and images which we think can help brilliantly to fill in gaps in your understanding of the world. If only we’d seen some of these when we were kids!
What your hands look like after you’ve washed them:
What happens when you put a key in a lock:
gawkerassets
What happens when you put on sun cream:
youtube
How dogs drink water:
googleusercontent
The size of the Earth in comparison to the largest known star in the universe, the hypergiant Canis Major:
buzzfed
How braces affect your teeth:
blogspot
You can do this with your own computer:
gizmag
What the contents of an egg looks like underwater:
youtube
How water refracts light:
shenqiusa
What happens when you swallow:
googleusercontent
The number of flights which take place in 24 hours:
youtube
How a person’s face is formed inside the womb:
bestgifsdotnet
The flowering of a dandelion:
coub
Proof of Pythagoras’ theorem (a² + b² = c²):
blogspot
What happens when a star is drawn into a black hole:
wikipedia
How beans grow:
dayleak
How a helmet is covered in camouflage:
naosalvo
How a trumpet produces music:
fooyoh
How a cheetah uses its tail to reduce its inertia:
buzzfed
How a ladybird takes flight:
buzzfed
