Kid scoop june 2014 issue

A KID-TESTED PUBLICATION OF THE LUDINGTON DAILY NEWS

Try these fun STEM experiments revealing the properties of water tension—create a waterdrop microscope, soap-power a boat, balance a penny on water and float a needle.

How many words can you make using the letters in FUN IN THE SUMMER SUN?

Kid Scoop News highlights some amazing kids and their projects to raise money for various charities.

Take a very close look at what skin is made of and what it does for the body.

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Putting out fires is dangerous work. Each year brave firefighters lose their lives to the fires they fight.

The Naval Research Laboratory is developing a robot that can walk directly into flames and see through black smoke. The Navy needs this robot to battle fires on their ships.

Once it is ready, it will save many lives.

The robot is named SAFFiR, which stands for Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot. It is made of a light-weight resin and can withstand temperatures up to 500 degrees Celsius (932 degrees Fahrenheit!).

14-year-old boy from Pittsburg says he’s found a way to save the U.S. government millions of dollars by changing the fonts used in documents.

Suvir Mirchandani’s middle school science fair project investigated the amount of ink used by different fonts. He discovered that the font Garamond used less ink than Times New Roman, which is currently used by many government offices.

Suvir’s study showed that this switch would use 24% less ink and that $20,000 per year could be saved in one Pennsylvania school district. His study went on to estimate that $136 million per year could be saved if the Federal Government were to switch to Garamond.

Later this year, SAFFiR will be tested on the Navy’s fire test ship, the ex-USS Shadwell, moored in Mobile, Ala.

Food Waste Fuels Busses in Oslo, Norway A plant in Norway now turns household food waste into a liquid biogas fuel to run the city’s 135 buses. This will mean a lot less carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and pollution for the city.

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HEALTH

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Every minute you lose 30,000 to 40,000 dead skin cells off the surfa ce of your skin.

Your skin is always making new skin cells that rise to the top to replace the old ones.

Your skin is made up of two layers, the epidermis and the dermis.

The epidermis is the top layer of skin. It waterproofs your body and keeps germs out.

When you get hot, your pores open and sweat comes out. You cool off when the sweat evaporates.

Cells in your epidermis make something called melanin. Melanin gives skin its color.

Patches of skin with extra melanin are called freckles.

This gland produces sweat, also known as perspiration.

Your oil glands make oil that keeps your skin moist and soft. Too much can clog a pore and make a pimple.

This tiny muscle attached to each hair follicle makes hairs stand up when you get goosebumps.

Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty blood vessels.

Hairs grow from holes in the skin called follicles.

You have follicles on almost every part of your body.

This thicker layer of skin has blood vessels, sweat glands, hair roots and nerve endings which let you sense pain, touch, heat and cold.

This is a layer of fatty tissue under the dermis which helps your body stay warm.

Standards Link: Life Science: Students know that living organisms have distinct body systems that solve specific functions in survival.

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STEM

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Mix some ordinary things from around the house to cool off with Kid Scoop for extraordinary fun!

Fill the cup with water until the water is nearly to the brim. Start adding small pebbles or pennies to the cup. How many do you think you can add before the water spills from the cup?

Water is made up of small particles called molecules that are too small to see. Water molecules are strongly attracted to each other.

This explains why water “sticks” together.

You will add lots of pebbles or pennies. The water actually rises above the rim of the cup and stays there!

Surface tension holds the water together.

Standards Link: Science: Conduct a simple investigation and analyze results to develop a logical conclusion.

The water molecules below the surface pull more strongly than the air molecules above the water, and this keeps the water molecules on the surface from flowing over. As more objects are added to the cup of water, the surface stretches as if it’s made of elastic. When too many objects are added, the pressure to pull the water molecules down becomes too great and the surface bursts, spilling water everywhere.

Standards Link: Physical Science: All matter is made up of very small particles called atoms. Atoms combine to form molecules. Atoms exist in solids, liquids and gas.

Rest two pencils on a table (or the side of your bathtub), about 3 inches apart. Stretch a strip of wide, clear tape between them. Using your eyedropper, put a drop of water on the tape. Surface tension holds the drop together and the force of gravity flattens it against the tape to make a lens.

Slide a small object such as a postage stamp or a picture from the newspaper under your waterdrop lens.

What happens?

Standards Link: Physical Science: Understand the unique properties of water.

Ever noticed little beads of water on the sink after you’ve brushed your teeth?

That’s surface tension at work.

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FOLK TALE

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The Big Read, a project of the National Endowment for the Arts, invites entire communities to read the same book at the same time!

This year, many groups are reading:

Tom is full of fun, adventure and imagination. Sometimes these ___________ are useful and sometimes they get him in _____________.

One day, he plays hooky from school and gets his clothes dirty in a __________. As punishment, Tom has to whitewash a fence.

Tom soon ____________ out how to trick his friends into whitewashing the fence for him by making the ____________ job seem like a lot of fun!

In the book, Tom fa lls for the new girl in town, Becky Thatcher. He talks her into getti ng him. At first she lik “engaged” to es agrees. But, then so the idea and mething happens to change her mind.

Replace the mis sing vowels to find out why Bec ky “engagement” toended her Tom.

T_m h_s b_ _n “_ng_g_d” t_ _n _th_r g_rl n_m_d Amy. Unscramble the letters to discover what To m gave Becky as an engagem ent gift.

Schoolmaster Dobbins challenged Tom to spell every state in the union.

What was Tom’s answer?

To find out, write the letter of the alphabet that comes before each letter below.

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W

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S J V

Z

O O

T U J

U I

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Tom and his friend Huck and Joe run away to an island to become pirates. They stay away so long that the townspeople think they have drowned in the river.

Imagine the surprise and joy when the boys show up at their own funerals!

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Standards Link: Visual Arts: Know how subject matter, symbols and ideas are used to communicate meaning.

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COOL COOL LINKS LINKS

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The Blue Traveler

A Trip Through the Water Cycle

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EARLY LEARNERS S is for Sunflower s is for sunflower

Sasha is proud of her sunflower garden. Circle the sunflower that is the biggest. Draw a square around the sunflower that is the smallest.

LOOK SHARP: Can you find the little mouse hiding in the garden?

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

How many words or pictures can you find on this page that have the sound that the letter S makes in the word sunflower?

How many “Shall I sing?” says the Lark.

“Shall I bloom?” says the Sunflower.

“Shall I come?” says the Sun. “Or shall I?” says the Shower.

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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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spotlight SPOTLIGHT

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This is one way to make a splash.

Making a splash has two different meanings. One is to actually splash water and make the droplets fly.

This is another way to make a splash.

Number these pictures in the correct order.

The other is an idiom, to make a splash, which means to get attention and do something significant.

Last summer, eight-year-old Joshua Bayer wrote a book about monsters.

“M-M-M-Monster!!!” was created to raise money to help save the lives of abandoned pets.

Neha Gupta, a 13-year-old from Pennsylvania, started when she was just nine years old. Since then, her non-profit has raised $30,000 for orphans in India thanks to Gupta’s fundraising activities: selling handmade greeting cards and wine charms.

The book was sold in local stores in his hometown. All of the money went to animal rescue organizations.

Use the math code.

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

Neha’s fundraising goal is:

= 29 - 19 - 10

= 15 - 12 - 3

= 17 - 13 - 3

= 19 - 14 - 5

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spotlight SPOTLIGHT

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I am a 12-year-old boy who likes music and doesn’t like global warming.

I am not old enough to solve the problem. But I am old enough to convince others to try by having school children from Africa, South America, Europe, Asia and North America sing my 100 Generations song with me. That way, the world can hear that children everywhere care about nature.

You can be a part of this project by singing the song, sharing videos of kids around the world singing it and even by buying the song.

Fill in the missing letters to discover from which countries Aitan has received videos of people singing his song. (Use the floating letters.)

Standards Link: Spelling: Spell grade-level appropriate words correctly.

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CALENDAR

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2014 Make a plan to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables this month.

National Fresh Fruit and Tune to music radio Vegetable Month and dance along for some fun exercise.

Radio was patented on this day in 1896.

Design the house you would like.

Today is the birthday of the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Can you find a pond or lake somewhere, take a parent and feed the ducks.

Donald Duck’s Birthday

This day is the Aesop was a famed anniversary of the storyteller who lived first U.S. Space walk by Ed White in ancient Greece. He wrote fables—stories in 1965. Write a and characters that paragraph about right and what it must be like described wrong behavior. to walk in space.

Read one of Aesop’s Fables today.

Aesop’s Birthday Do you know what it means to “walk the dog” and “shoot the moon”?

National Yo-Yo Day

The United Nations designated this as World Environment Day. This year’s theme is about wasted food. Discuss how food is wasted with your class.

Ask your parents what happened on the day you were born. Then ask them if they know what happened on the day they were born.

The Soccer World Cup begins today in Brazil.

Make a list of things you would like to do during your Summer Vacation.

Find a special event and a hiking trail near you today and celebrate National Trails Day

Make this a day without using the car. Walk to school if you can or ride a bike.

Fly the flag today and learn more about its history and creators.

Flag Day

Write a poem on the topic of “Wishes for My Dad.” Make the day special for a man in your life.

Father’s Day

Take your kites out on a hillside, park or beach.

Have a friend run with the kite as you hold the string. Take turns flying your kite.

Find a local activity that is happening in your neighborhood and volunteer to help.

Offer to help cook dinner tonight, set the table or clean up afterwards and include in your meal your favorite vegetable.

Eat Your Vegetables Day

Juneteenth is the celebration of the ending of slavery in the United States.

Combine chocolate syrup, milk, carbonated water, ice cream and whipped cream to make an old-fashioned ice cream soda.

Ice Cream Soda Day

On this day of the year, the sun is farthest north. Have everyone put an idea in a hat of how to celebrate the day.

Choose one.

First Day of Summer

Have a family sleepover, watch movies, eat pizza and sleep on the floor.

Take a field trip to a museum with a family member today. First plan your day, your lunch and which exhibits you particularly would like to see.

Take three bean bags or balls and see if you can learn to juggle today.

LEON Day— that’s NOEL spelled backwards.

It’s 6 months from this day until Christmas. Write down 3 goals to achieve before Christmas.

Time to clean and tune up your bicycle and helmet for the summer months.

Close your eyes and listen carefully and in silence for at least 3 minutes.

Then discuss what you could hear.

Write or tell a tall tale today about someone you invented who is “larger than life.”

Find a way to stay cool without air conditioning. Make a fan or a gentle water spray.

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Try something you have never done before or explore somewhere you have never visited before.

Bicycle patented in 1819

Helen Keller’s birthday

Paul Bunyan Day

One of the beachballs on this page is different from all the others. Can you find it?

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BOOK BOOK & & WEB WEB PICKS PICKS Tornado

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Basics

by Betsy Byars, illustrated by Doron Ben-Ami This great read aloud chapter book starts as a tornado is approaching and the family rushes down into the storm cellar.

As the storms roars overhead, Pete the farmhand, tells stories about Tornado the dog— how he came into Pete’s life during a tornado, how he and the cat were rivals and how he saved a turtle’s life.

weatherwizkids.com/weather-tornado.htm A basic explanation of tornadoes, how they happen and their parts. Scroll down to learn about funnel clouds, supercell thunderstorms, mesocyclones, wall clouds, waterspouts and a section on facts about tornadoes and what to do in the event of one.

Tornadoes 101

video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/forces-of-naturekids/tornadoes-101-kids/ National Geographic has video showing how tornadoes form and how to get out of their way.

FEMA

www.ready.gov/kids Be a hero! Fema has a great site for kids that relates to any kind of natural disaster and how everyone should be prepared and be prepared to help.

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ANIMALS

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Most of a housefly’s head is covered by its eyes. Houseflies have compound eyes, which means that each eye is actually made up of 3,000 to 6,000 simple eyes.

large family. There I come from a very000 species of flies are more than 120, in the world!

Each simple eye has its own nerve and six-sided lens. When a housefly looks at an object, it doesn’t see one smooth picture, but a mosaic made up of thousands of pieces of that picture.

Compound eyes permit a fly to see in many directions at once. Each lens points in a slightly different direction, making it possible for a housefly to see above, below and to the sides, as well as to the front.

That is why it is hard to sneak up on a housefly!

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Do the math to find out which part of the housefly’s body senses each of the following: How does a housefly walk upside down on a ceiling and straight up slick glass windows?

At the end of a fly’s foot are two tiny, sticky suction cups called pulvilli (pull –VIL-eye) and two claws.

The claws help the housefly grab onto rough surfaces and the pulvilli allow the fly to stick to smooth surfaces.

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