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    Explore Water!: 25 Great Projects, Activities, Experiments
    Explore Water!: 25 Great Projects, Activities, Experiments
    Explore Water!: 25 Great Projects, Activities, Experiments
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    Explore Water!: 25 Great Projects, Activities, Experiments

    By Anita Yasuda and Bryan Stone

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    Drip—Drop—Splash! Water is essential to all forms of life. Explore Water! 25 Great Projects, Activities, Experiments, captures a child's imagination with an intriguing look at the world of water.

    Combining hands-on activities with history and science, kids will have fun learning about the water cycle, water resources, drinking water and sanitation, water pollution and conservation, water use, water folklore and festivals, and the latest in water technology. Entertaining illustrations and fascinating sidebars illuminate the topic and bring it to life, while Words to Know highlighted and defined within the text reinforce new vocabulary.

    Projects include a nilometer, a rain harvester made out of plastic containers, a transpiration experiment, and a mini water wheel. Auxiliary materials include a glossary, and a list of current reference works, websites, museums, and science centers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNomad Press
    Release dateJun 1, 2011
    ISBN9781936749898
    Explore Water!: 25 Great Projects, Activities, Experiments
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    Anita Yasuda

    Anita Yasuda is the author of more than one hundred books for children. She lives with her family and her dog in Huntington Beach, California.

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      Explore Water! - Anita Yasuda

      Nomad Press is committed to preserving ancient forests and natural resources.

      We elected to print Explore Water! on 100% post consumer recycled paper, processed chlorine free. As a result, for this printing, we have saved:

      24 Trees, (equal to half an American football field)

      22,958 Gallons of water, (equal to a shower of 4.8 days)

      7,544 Pounds of air emissions, (equal to emissions of 1 car per year)

      Nomad Press made this paper choice because our printer, Transcontinental, is a member of Green Press Initiative, a nonprofit program dedicated to supporting authors, publishers, and suppliers in their efforts to reduce their use of fiber obtained from endangered forests.

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      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review or for limited educational use.

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      ISBN: 978-1-936313-42-6

      Illustrations by Bryan Stone

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      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      EXPLORE WATER

      Chapter 1

      W IS FOR WATER

      Chapter 2

      WATER CYCLE

      Chapter 3

      WATER AND WEATHER

      Chapter 4

      WATER WORKS

      Chapter 5

      POLLUTION DECODER

      Chapter 6

      WATER WISE

      Chapter 7

      WATER INSPIRED

      Glossary

      Resources

      Index

      EXPLORE WATER

      CAN YOU GUESS WHO I AM? I have been here since Earth began. I splash and spill. I drip and drop. You use me, play in me, and drink me. I can run through your fingers, be hard as a rock, and turn invisible. I flow through your body and history. I guided explorers and helped the first settlers. Can you guess who I am? Water!

      Water is amazing. More than half of the world’s animals and plants live in it. There would be no past, present, or future people without water. In fact, you would not be here. You surely would not be reading this book. And yet, we often take water for granted. But this is a mistake. We are lucky to have water. Earth is the only planet in our solar system with liquid water.

      WORDS to know

      HYDROLOGIST: a person who studies water.

      Put on your HYDROLOGIST hat! A hydrologist is a person who studies water. In the following pages, you’ll read about the water cycle, rain harvesting, water power, water technology, and how to use water wisely. You’ll also discover how much water there is on Earth and why it falls from the sky.

      Along the way you’re going to do lots of fun projects, play games, do experiments, and hear some silly jokes. Be warned though, you’re going to get very wet as you drip, drop, splish, and splash around.

      Ready? Let’s Explore Water!

      OUR BLUE PLANET

      What if you were an astronaut in a spaceship high above Earth? From space, Earth looks like a bright blue gumball!

      Looking closer, you can spot the five Great Lakes of North America, the dark lines of the Amazon River, and the bright blue of the oceans. No matter where you look, you see water. This is not surprising, because water covers 70 percent of Earth. It is in the puddles on your street and in the streams near your home. It is even in the air.

      JOIN THE TIME WARP TOUR

      Imagine travelling through time to the beginning of Earth. Hop on, our tour bus is leaving now for the very distant past. Take a look around. This is Earth 4½ billion years ago. Of course, it’s very different. Earth begins as a hot swirling mass of gas, rock, and dust.

      WORDS to know

      COMET: a ball of ice and dust that ORBITS the sun.

      ORBIT: circle around something.

      METEOR: a rock that orbits the sun.

      WATER VAPOR: water as a gas, like steam or mist.

      EROSION: the wearing down of the earth’s surface.

      METEOROLOGIST: a scientist who studies weather patterns.

      Later, these parts come together to form a huge glowing ball. Look out for the COMETS and METEORS falling from the sky above!

      There is water trapped inside the earth. As the earth’s center heats up, WATER VAPOR rises to the surface. Get out your umbrellas! When the earth starts to cool, that water vapor turns into liquid, or rain. For millions of years it rains.

      Meanwhile, huge land masses smash together like bumper cars—craaaash!—and then split apart. The falling rain collects in the empty, low-lying areas. This is how oceans begin.

      The amount of water on Earth will remain the same. As Earth cools and warms, water will freeze, thaw, and carve the surface. This is EROSION.

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