How Are arbles ade?
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Copyright © 2023 Learning Withot Tears
First Edition ISN: 979-8-88566-112-6 23456789RRA252423
Printed in Dongguan, China
CHAPTER 1
All Kinds of arbles
Have yo ever played with marbles?
A marble is a little lass ball. arbles come in many sizes and colors.
A marble can be bi as an apple or little as a pebble.
arbles can dazzle with prple ripples or silver sparkles!
CHAPTER 2
The ame of arbles
To play the ame marbles, place marbles in a circle.
Take trns shootin a marble into the circle with yor thmb. Try to knock other marbles ot.
CHAPTER 3
arbles ade Lon Ao
Lon ao, people sed pebbles as marbles. The pebbles were ronded little by little by the entle flow of a river.
People also made handmade marbles ot of clay and little rond nts.
CHAPTER 4 arbles ade Today
Now marbles are made of lass. This marble maker shovels sand into a hot oven. t melts.
The worker takes a little bit ot on a pole with a lon handle.
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Glass is rolled into a round shape.
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A marble shape is snipped off.
3
The marble cools and hardens.
The hot blob is rolled on a table by spinnin the handle.
The blob can be tmbled in little bits of colored lass. These melt and make ripples in the marble.
The marble maker keeps spinnin the handle while makin a entle snip. A marble-shaped piece breaks off. t cools and hardens.
CHAPTER 5 arbles ade by achine
Some marbles are made by machine.
melted lass spindle
A kettle pors lmps of melted lass down a fnnel onto a table.
Two spindles spin on the table. Each spindle has rooves like a screw. The lass lmps
Any way they are made, marbles dazzle and sparkle!
Reflect on the ook
1. What is this book mostly abot?
2. What are marbles sed for?
1. How are handmade marbles the same as marbles made by machine? How are they different?
2. What are the steps that a worker oes throh to make a marble?
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