sci ™ d What You Nee eets to sh –5 (4 • newspaper tra sheets ex e m tear up and so ess) oc for the pressing pr • large bowl • hot water • cornstarch oons • measuring sp il • aluminum fo n oo sp • wooden • scissors • sharp pencil like tissue • decorations glitter paper, confetti, or g Recyclin aking news! into paper! re B Paper Newspaper turned Science Scoop Newspaper is made of cellulose fibers, which come from plants. Paper is made of millions of these fibers tangled together in a thin layer. The fibers naturally bond to one another. Water breaks down this bond. When you covered the newspaper with water, the fibers in the paper loosened their hold on each other. Then you’re able to rearrange the fibers into new paper. The cornstarch you added helped bind the cellulose fibers to each other again. When you left your recycled paper out to dry, the water evaporated from the pulp and the fibers stuck together again to form a piece of recycled paper. on ™ pieces and spaper into small w ne e th ng tti cu 1 Start by Try making paper from other l. r and mix pe put them in a bow pa e th r ve co materials like cardboard or gh hot tap water to 2 Pour in enou tissue paper. Write to ZOOM . per is wet feels d an s it until all of the pa ok lo it n he W at pbskids.org/zoom t for a few hours. per. 3 Let the paper si pa e ak m to and tell us how you made y ad re l, you’re ore m tle like cooked oatmea lit a d an ch ar your recycled paper. espoons of cornst lp. 4 Add a few tabl u p e th is is Th . all up again hot water. Mix it er out of a piece of 5 Make a strain in it with h lots of small holes nc Pu il. fo m inu m alu a sharp pencil. a pile um foil on top of 6 Put the alumin of newspaper. layer of pulp. um foil with a thin in m alu e th er ov 7 C top and press of aluminum foil on t ee sh r he ot an Place extra water. down to drain the the pulp with il and decorate fo of t ee sh p to e 8 Lift th r, or confetti. tissue paper, glitte things like colored top sheet of foil. lp and replace the pu e th in s le ho y 9 Fix an to press it flat. on top of the pulp s ok bo ce la P 10 of foil. Leave s and the top layer ok bo e th e ov Rem dry. night (or longer) to the pulp out over l it from Changing newspaper is dry, carefully pee 11 Once the pulp r! pe into pulp takes several eated pa the foil. You just cr hours and the drying ncoln, NE Li of g on al Bo process can take a d an ny Sent i n by Tiffa day or two. © 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation. All rights reserved. ZOOM and the ZOOM words and related indicia are trademarks of the WGBH Educational Foundation. “PBS KIDS” is a trademark of PBS. Used with permission. All other rights reserved. ZOOM is produced by WGBH Boston. Funding for ZOOM is provided by the National Science Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Weezie Foundation, and public television viewers. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0337323. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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