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• Print all the ZOOMerang pages.
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• Cut out each page along the dotted lines.
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• Tape pages 1–6 together from end to end so that you have
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a long row.
• glue
• Tape pages A–F together to make a second long row.
• Lay one row face down on a table and put some glue on the back
of the pages.
• Place the second row on top of the first row. The printed part of the second
row should face you.
• Smooth out the glue with your hand.
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What You Need
• clear, 2-liter plastic
soda bottle
• pebbles
• potting soil
• seeds (radish seeds
grow quickly)
• gallon-size, zipperlock
plastic bag
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bottom half of the soda bottle until they
are half an inch deep. Pour potting
soil over the pebbles until it is an inch
deep. Make a half-inch trench and
sprinkle in a pinch of seeds.
Cover the seeds with potting soil.
Water the soil until the water
collects at the bottom of the pebbles.
Put the bottle in a plastic bag, seal it,
and move it to a sunny place, like a
windowsill.
Wait three or four days and check on your
plants. Where do you notice water collecting
in the bag?
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Try an experiment. Set up two biomes.
Give one a lot of water, like a rainforest.
Give the other one very little water, like
a desert. Predict what you
think will happen.Then test it
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What You Need
red food coloring
glass of water
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white carnation
scissors
Add 15 drops of red food coloring to the
glass of water. Stir. Cut off the bottom of
the stem. Put the carnation in the colored
water. Place it in a sunny place and wait
until the next day. What happens?
Now it’s time for you to experiment.
What happens if you split the stem in half
the long way and put the left side in red
water and the right side in blue water?
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Or what happens if you use celery
instead of a carnation? Choose one thing
to change (that’s the variable), and predict
what you think will happen.Then test it
and send your results to ZOOM
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Science Scoop
Why do the petals turn
red when you
put the carnation in red
water? Water is
constantly lost, or evap
orates, from the
leaves and petals. (This me
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from a liquid to a gas.) W
hen the carnation
loses water, it takes in
more water
through its stem to replac
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travels up the stem in
tiny tubes to the
petals. Since you added
food coloring
to the water, you can tel
l when the liquid
reaches the petals becau
se the petals
change color.
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Make a toy that can climb string!
What You Need
• large paper plate
• markers or crayons
• scissors
• plastic drinking straw
• tape
• stapler
• string
• paper towel tube
• 2 beads (large enough holes
for string to go through)
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Draw an animal or person with
long arms on the front of a paper
plate. Cut out the drawing. Next
cut two pieces of straw that are
one inch long. Tape each piece
across the middle of each arm.
Then fold the arms over the
straw pieces and staple them
in place.
Make a string ladder for your toy to climb.
Cut two five-foot pieces of string. Tie them to
the ends of a paper towel tube. Thread the
ends of these strings through the straw pieces
and tie a bead onto each end.
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Just add “ub” before each
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Try out
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Now you need a way
to hang up your toy. Cut
a two-foot piece of string and tie it
to the middle of the paper towel tube.
Tie the middle string to something
stable and fairly tall, like the handle on
your refrigerator. Now you’re ready to
test it out! Slide your toy to the
bottom of the strings so it rests on
the beads. Pull the strings gently, first
one and then the other, and your toy
will climb up the string.
Make two toys and
Go to
have a race
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with a friend!
to find out how to make other
toys, like Ping Pong Paddles
or Shadow Puppets.
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with paper
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