Kid scoop april 2014

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She battled a gang of alligators, stunned a bear with a grin and married Davy Crockett. Read all about the legendary Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett.

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Games, Puzzles and JokesApril Calendar of ActivitiesSmart Ideas for Teachers

How many of these

eggs match the one the

Easter Bunny is holding?

Look carefully!

Find somebunny to help you solve the mystery on our Easter page with Buzz and Beeper. Every

bunny needs a buddy!

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What are microbes?

Project MERCCURI wants YOU!A

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.

How to take part in Project MERCURRI

18 = Salmonella

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

properly.

19 = E. coli

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

Some strains are required for good health, while

others can make you sick.

20 = In uenza

Influenza is a virus that can give you the

illness commonly called “the flu”

for short.

It’s easy. Just sign up to be part of Citizen Science Project MERCCURI by

emailing [email protected]. 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!

A student collects microbes from second base at AT&T Park in

San Francisco, Calif.

Project MERCCURI is only one of thousands of different Citizen Science projects going on world-wide. To find out about

other projects go to scistarter.com.

But wait! There’s much more!

What’s Citizen Science?

21 = Lactobaccilus casei

5 + 5 + 8 = 7 + 7 + 7 = 8 + 8 + 4 = 15 + 3 + 1 =

This important member of the microbial commu-

nity in the human gut and is found in probiotics,

such as yogurt and kefir.

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 tostudy 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.)

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

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.

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

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SPOTLIGHTSPOTLIGHT

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow multiple step directions; Math Reasoning: Problem solving using multiple strategies.

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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HISTORYHISTORY

When you crack the shell of a

hard-boiled egg, you get a

lot of separate pieces or

plates of shell. The crust of

the earth is like the shell of a

hard-boiled egg. It is broken up

into plates, too. But, unlike the pieces of a hard-

boiled egg, the plates of the earth’s crust move.

Standards Link: Earth Science: Students know that plate

tectonics account for major geological events.

The earthquake was actually centered north of San Francisco. In one place about 30 miles to the north, a fence was broken and the two pieces moved eight feet apart.

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.

California sits on two plates of the earth’s crust: the North

America Plate and the Pacific Plate.

The place where the two plates meet is called the San

Andreas Fault. The Pacific Plate is slowly moving

northwest. Most of the time it moves very slowly,

about as fast as your fingernails grow. But sometimes

it jerks several inches or feet at one time. This

causes the earth around the fault to shake.

North American Plate

Pacific Plate

Standards Link: Earth Science: Students know that

earthquakes are sudden motions along faults.

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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The baskets that belong to Buzz and Beeper are

identical.Standards Links: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

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.

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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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EARLY LEARNERS EARLY LEARNERS

Q is for Quilt

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 ?

How many ? Learning Buddies: Trace and say the number. Read the

questions. Touch and count to find the answers.

q is for quilt

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

The Queen of HeartsShe made some tarts,All on a winter’s day.

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.

Color the squares yellow that have a

picture of something you use

to touch.

Color the squares blue that have a picture of something

you use to taste.

Color the squares orange that have a picture of something

you use to hear.

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

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

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 = )

(29 + 7 + 5 = )

(19 + 5 + 3 = )

(21 + 6 + 5 = )

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.

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

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“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, out-scream, out-swim, and out-run any baby in Kentucky!”

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!

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.

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

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.

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!

Standards Link: Reading

Comprehension: Students know

the sequence of events in a story.

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.

ANSWER: Bald eagles.

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CALENDARCALENDAR2014

With a friend, create a secret code. Write messages to

each other using the code. Then see if other friends can “break” the code

and figure out what you wrote.

Calling all poets! Write down ten

pairs of words that rhyme. Now write

down a poem using those words.

Learn about the Nature Explore club

to gain a better appreciation of

nature.

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

Put on gloves and go for a walk and pick up trash in

your neighborhood or join a park

clean-up project.

Have fun counting eggs

today!

Plan a visit to a tree nursery

This day is the anniversary of the Great 1906 San

Fransisco Earthquake

Create a comic strip. Use two characters to tell knock-knock

jokes or riddles.

On this day, you can ask a question

and the person answering must give an honest

answer.

Discuss the meaning of the word meditate. Close your eyes

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

Have you or your friend mastered

the cartwheel yet? Don’t give up! Practice is great

exercise.

Can you do a cartwheel? If so,

teach a friend how to do one. If not,

work with a friend that knows how.

Find some of your favorite books and

read them to a younger child.

Look up at the sky for 15

minutes tonight. How many

aircraft can you spot in that

amount of time?

Learn all the words to one of your parents’ favorite songs. Have a family sing along tonight!

How long can you go without watching

TV? How many books could you

read if you gave up TV for a few days?

Watch a movie made before 1950. Then

talk about things you noticed that are different from

modern movies.

Clip coupons from the newspa-

per or online. Set

aside the amount of money you

save to use for a special treat for

the family.

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.

Do something nice for a brother or

sister today. Maybe they will

do something nice for you!

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

Who were the first people to

reach the North Pole on this day

in 1898?

Beverley Cleary was born on this day in 1916. Can

you find the names of the books she has

written?

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

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Wonders from the Land Down Undersandiegozoo.org/koalafornia/koalacam.htmlOpened 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 Informationthekoala.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 Geographicanimals.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.

Crack Up! Answer: TO COVER CHICKENS.

Standards Links: Decoding: Recognize letters of the alphabet. Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

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PUZZLE PAGEPUZZLE PAGE ANIMALSANIMALS

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.

cuscusesopossumwallaroos

kangarooswombatstasmanian devil

Fill in the names of these marsupials in these boxes.bandicootquollwallaby

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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.

Color area 1 green.This is the habitat ofthe koala.

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