Kid scoop april 2014

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Project MERCCURI wants YOU! stronauts, university scientists, NFL and NBA cheerleaders want your help in collecting microbes from your shoes, cell phone and the places where you live, go to school and play.

It is part of an international Citizen Scientist project that will study microbes and map the different kinds of microbes on Earth. In March, some of the microbes will travel to space and be part of experiments on the International Space Station to study the effects of zero gravity on microbes.

You can join kids around the world who are swabbing for microbes at major sports arenas, movie theaters and other places where large groups of people gather.

(Find out how by reading the column at right.)

Swab photos courtesy of UC Davis

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What’s Citizen Science?

On Christmas Day in 1900, Frank Chapman, an officer in the Audubon Society, decided to organize his friends to count birds. He didn’t know it then, but citizen science was born.

Citizen science asks people everywhere to observe or collect

What are microbes?

something — birds, frogs, flowers, even microbes. This information, or data, is sent to trained scientists to analyze.

It’s like giving scientists thousands of eyes and hands to observe and collect information for their studies. And for kids and adults, it’s a chance to connect with the outside world in a real, meaningful — and often fun — way.

How to take part in Project MERCURRI It’s easy. Just sign up to be part of Citizen Science Project MERCCURI by emailing infor@scistarter.com.

Put “microbes” in the subject line. It’s free!

Project MERCCURI will send you a kit and instructions on how to swab samples from your world, store them and send them to the lab.

Participation is limited to the first 100 kids that sign up – so sign up today!

Microbes, sometimes called microorganisms, are tiny living things. They are so small they can only be seen with a microscope but they are all around us – and ON us, too. Many microbes are helpful, but some can cause illnesses. Here are some common microbes as seen through a microscope. Do the math to identify each of them.

8+8+4=

7+7+7=

5+5+8=

15 + 3 + 1 =

18 = Salmonella

19 = E. coli

20 = Influenza

21 = Lactobaccilus casei

Salmonella is a bacteria found on chicken and turkey that can make you sick if not cooked properly.

E. coli is a bacteria that lives in your gut.

Some strains are required for good health, while others can make you sick.

Influenza is a virus that can give you the illness commonly called “the flu” for short.

This important member of the microbial community in the human gut and is found in probiotics, such as yogurt and kefir.

A student collects microbes from second base at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif.

But wait! There’s much more!

Project MERCCURI is only one of thousands of different Citizen Science projects going on worldwide. To find out about other projects go to scistarter.com.

Microbe photo credits, from left to right: NIAID, AJC1, NIAID, Microbe World

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spotlight SPOTLIGHT

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ou are captain of the starship Phoolhearty. For months, you and your crew have been headed to Planet Zeejokesonyu.

Your mission is to bring back data on the planet’s animal life. You reach the planet on April Fools’ Day. An urgent message from your commander says to solve the puzzles and accomplish your mission – that’s no joke!

irst your crew looked for animal life and made notes about what they saw. Your crew’s data pads are shown here.

Only one of them has correctly identified all of the creatures in this place. The others are playing an April Fools’ joke on you!

Use the Lifeform Analyzer to find out who is right.

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HISTORY

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At 5:13 a.m. on April 18, 1906, San Francisco experienced one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded. It is estimated that the quake was 7.7 to 7.9 on the Richter Scale. More than 3,000 people lost their lives in the quake and the fires that followed. The fires alone destroyed 28,000 buildings in the city—nearly every single one!

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In 1906 near San Francisco, the Pacific Plate moved about 20 feet in just a few seconds. The pictures at left show how some of the land changed when this happened. How many changes can you find?

Standards Link: Investigation: Find similarities and differences in common objects.

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his Easter, Buzz and Beeper didn’t find eggs in their baskets. They found a mysterious message! Every bunny needs a buddy and these bunnies need YOUR help to discover how to read the message.

Find somebunny to be your buddy and do this page together!

If this page looks easy to do, share it with somebunny younger than you. If it looks hard, share it with somebunny older!

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The baskets that belong to Buzz and Beeper are identical.

Standards Links: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

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Easter Scrambler

Chirp! Chirp! These baby chicks want to play with you! Scramble up the picture to put it back together!

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EARLY LEARNERS Color the squares green that have a picture of something you use to smell.

Color the squares red that have a picture of something you use to see.

Q is for Quilt q is for quilt

Color the squares yellow that have a picture of something you use to touch.

Learning Buddies: Read the two phrases aloud. Have your child read with you. Trace the uppercase and lowercase letter Q. Say the letter as you trace it.

How many pictures can you find on this page that start with the sound that the letter Q makes in the word quilt?

How many Color the squares blue that have a picture of something you use to taste.

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Color the squares orange that have a picture of something you use to hear.

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How many

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Learning Buddies: Trace and say the number. Read the questions. Touch and count to find the answers.

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FOLK TAIL

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Sally Ann thought Davy Crockett was mighty cute. She prettied herself to catch his heart.

Do the math to discover a couple of the things she used to make a big impression. The correct answers are the ones that add up to odd numbers.

So, did she win Davy’s heart?

Well, now we call her Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett. What do you think?

(33 + 9 + 6 =

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(29 + 7 + 5 =

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(19 + 5 + 3 =

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(21 + 6 + 5 =

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Davy Crockett, incidentally, is not just a tall tale. He really existed, and served in Congress from 1827 to 1835.

Standards Link: Number Sense: Solve problems involving numeric equations.

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Find the words by looking up, down, backwards, forwards, sideways and diagonally.

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FOLK TAIL ou won’t find Sally Ann in any history book, but she is an authentic American frontier legend.

“HOWDY! I’m Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind!”

Sally Ann shouted on the day she was born. Then she went on to brag that she could, “out-talk, out-grin, outscream, out-swim, and out-run any baby in Kentucky!”

They say Sally Ann once battled a large gang of alligators. She battled so hard that she stirred up a tornado that swept the alligators away. For days they say alligators fell from the sky from New Orleans to Minnesota!

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At 8 years old, Sally Ann decided she was grown-up enough to head into the frontier.

Read her journal. Then number the pictures she drew in the correct order.

Sally’s nine brothers didn’t much care for their new baby sister and they called her a liar.

“Let’s race to the top of the mountain and back!” challenged Sally Ann. She beat them by a mile!

One day, while walking through the woods, Sally came upon the frontiersman, Davy Crockett. He had stopped for a nap and rested his head between two branches of a tree. His head became stuck, and two eagles were pulling out his hair for their nest!

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To find out what creature Sally Ann created, cross out the letters that are in T-O-O-T-H and R-U-N. Read the remaining letters.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Students know the sequence of events in a story.

ANSWER: Bald eagles.

Sally Ann let loose a scream that was so loud it blew the feathers off the eagles’ heads. This scared off the birds, allowing Sally Ann to pull Davy out of his predicament. Not only had she rescued the frontiersman; Sally Ann had just created creatures we treasure to this day.

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CALENDAR

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2014 Find some of your favorite books and read them to a younger child.

How long can you go without watching TV? How many books could you read if you gave up TV for a few days?

Turn Off TV and Read Month

Who were the first people to reach the North Pole on this day in 1898?

Learn all the words to one of your parents’ favorite songs.

Have a family sing along tonight!

Have fun counting eggs today!

Do something to improve your health today. Go for a long walk, make a nutritious meal and get a good night’s sleep.

Do you have books you’ve outgrown?

Contact your library and see if you can donate them.

The Titanic sank on this day in 1912. What caused the disaster?

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Put on gloves and go for a walk and pick up trash in your neighborhood or join a park clean-up project.

With a friend, Calling all poets! create a secret code.

Write down ten pairs of words that Write messages to Watch a movie made rhyme. Now write each other using the before 1950. Then code. Then see if down a poem talk about things you using those words. other friends can noticed that are “break” the code different from and figure out what National Poetry modern movies.

Month you wrote.

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Do something nice for a brother or sister today.

Maybe they will do something nice for you!

Look up at the sky for 15 minutes tonight.

How many aircraft can you spot in that amount of time?

How many foods starting with the letter B have you eaten this week?

Beverley Cleary was born on this day in 1916. Can you find the names of the books she has written?

Discuss the meaning of the word meditate.

Close your eyes and sit completely still. Be calm and meditate for five minutes today.

Can you do a cartwheel? If so, teach a friend how to do one. If not, work with a friend that knows how.

This day is the anniversary of the Great 1906 San Fransisco Earthquake

Have you or your friend mastered the cartwheel yet?

Don’t give up!

Practice is great exercise.

Create a comic strip.

Use two characters to tell knock-knock jokes or riddles.

Explore different career choices today. Learn a little of what it takes to achieve these careers.

Plan a visit to a tree nursery

Learn about the Nature Explore club to gain a better appreciation of nature.

Arbor Day On this day, you can ask a question and the person answering must give an honest answer.

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BOOK BOOK & & WEB WEB PICKS PICKS Koala

by Caroline Arnold, photographed by Richard Hewett The koala is not a bear, it’s a marsupial and it is also an endangered species.

Koalas were once hunted for their fur.

Now, the destruction of their habitat has reduced wild populations but special parks in Australia raise koalas where they can be safe and thrive. This well researched book shows details of how they live, play, feed and raise their young.

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Wonders from the Land Down Under

sandiegozoo.org/koalafornia/koalacam.html Opened just last year, the Australian Outback at the San Diego Zoo has koala-crossing signs that bring you to wide decks overlooking a forest for the Zoo’s koala colony. The Zoo has the largest koala population and the most successful koala breeding program outside of Australia. It was also the first zoo in the United States to welcome a koala joey. The website has a Koala cam and you can adopt and support one of their koalas.

Up-to-date Koala Information

thekoala.com/koala/ The koala gets its name from an Aboriginal word meaning “no drink” because it rarely drinks and it obtains moisture from the Eucalyptus leaves it eats. This site is updated regularly and provides a wealth of material about koalas in Australia.

National Geographic

animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/koala/ Like a kangaroo, this marsupial carries its young in a pouch. This site has fast facts, Koala range map and a useful description.

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You Need:

Each player needs 8 markers. Buttons, pebbles or even small squares of paper make good markers.

Goal:

Be the first person to get to the sum of 23.

How to Play:

1. The first player puts one marker on a number and says the number aloud.

2. The second player places a marker on another number, adds that number to the previous number and says the total aloud.

3. Play continues until one player reaches exactly 23.

Buzz’s Eggs-tra Challenge: Change the numbers in each egg above, using the numbers 5 through 8.

Beeper’s Eggs-tra-ordinary Challenge: Begin with 23 and subtract the amounts to reach zero.

Standards Link: Mathematics: Subtract single digits from single and double digits.

The secret code to crack the answer to this riddle is hidden in this egg border. is the letter A. To find out what letter each egg stands for, find

.

The alphabet follows in order by going clockwise around the border. Each egg stands for one letter of the alphabet.

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Crack Up! Answer: TO COVER CHICKENS.

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ANIMALS

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With its big, black shiny nose, large fluffy ears and round body covered with soft fur, the koala looks like a cuddly teddy bear.

But it’s not! It’s neither a toy, nor a bear. Koalas are related to opossums, wombats and other marsupials.

Standards Links: Life Science: Animals have adaptions that serve specific functions in survivial.

Marsupial moms carry their young around in pouches that are part of the body!

The word marsupial means “having a pouch.”

Koalas make their homes in eucalyptus forests along the eastern coast of Australia.

The eucalyptus forest provides food, shelter, and water—nearly everything the koala needs to survive.

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Color area 1 green.

This is the habitat of the koala.

Fill in the names of these marsupials in these boxes.

Koalas are nocturnal, which means they sleep during the day and are active at night. Koalas sleep about 18 hours each day.

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• cuscuses • opossum • wallaroos

• bandicoot • quoll • wallaby

Koalas don’t build nests or platforms. When they get sleepy, they find a nice cozy fork in the tree branches.

Though the hard branches of a tree wouldn’t seem cozy to us, the koala has a thick layer of fat and fur on its behind—its own built in pillow!

Which two sleepy koalas are identical?

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