TIME for Kids G1 Student Reader

Acknowledgments

“Bubbles” by Deborah Underwood from Ladybug, Magazine for Young Children Reprinted by permission of Carus Publishing
Company, Cricket Magazine Group.
“The Caterpillar” by Douglas Florian Copyright © 1994. Used by permission.
“Hamster Hide-and-Seek” by Avis Harley Text Copyright © 2011. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
“Loose and Limber” from WHISKERS AND RHYMES by Arnold Lobel. Text Copyright © 1985 by Arnold Lobel. Reprinted by
permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
“Cloud Parade” by Kristen M. Camiolo from Ladybug, Magazine for Young Children. Reprinted by permission Carus Publishing
Company, Cricket Magazine Group.
“Sunflakes” from COUNTRY PIE by Frank Asch. Text Copyright © 1979 by Frank Asch. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins
Publishers.
“Sarah Enters a Painting” by Susan Katz. Reprinted with the permission of Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing Division.
From the autograph album by Lillian Morrison Copyright © 1960 by The Owens Publishing Company. Used by permission of
Marian Reiner for the Author.

Photography Credits

Book Cover: (c) David Young-Wolff/Alamy; (tr) PhotoLink/Getty Images

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Contents

Issue 1 Retell • Context Clues • Photographs and
Captions
A Green
School Pond Life.......................................................... 6
Earth Helpers ................................................... 8
See the otter? Leave it to Beavers DIAGRAMS ......................... 10

It lives at the pond.
So do other animals.

It’s a(c) Peter Weimann/Animals Animals - Earth Scenes; (tr) Bridget Barrett
Wet and Dry
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World!

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Issue 2 Main Idea and Details • Context Clues • Maps

World Getting over the Hump.................................. 12
Water Day Not a Drop to Drink........................................ 14
Bubbles POETRY ............................................... 16
(c) Chloe/Galbe.com; (tr) Stockdisc/PunchStock
Many children in Africa had
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the books to the children!

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Issue 3 Compare and Contrast • Context Clues
• Diagrams
Helping
Out in A Ladybug’s Life............................................. 18
the Park Giving Time for the Common Good ............. 20
The Caterpillar POETRY .................................. 22
(c) Yves Lanceau/NHPA; (tr) NPS L ADY BUGS
GROW UP
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These big bugs
begin as eggs.
Then they change.
Find out how!

1/20/09 11:03:59 AM

Issue 4 Author’s Purpose • Context Clues • Charts

Colorful Eat Well, Feel Well ........................................ 24
Veggies! Orange You Glad? ......................................... 26
Climb the Pyramid DIAGRAMS ......................... 28
(c) Steve Satushek/Riser/Getty Images; (tr) Jorge Uzon/Corbis Be Happy and Healthy!

Run, play, and eat well. You will
flip for this healthy way of life!

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Issue 5 Main Idea and Details • Context Clues • Lists

Good Sharing with Others ...................................... 30
Citizens Thanks, Mom and Dad.................................. 32
Hamster Hide-and-Seek POETRY .................... 34
(c) DLILLC/Corbis; (tr) Jim WestElephant families are close.
So are other animal families.
1/16/09 2:20:56 PM
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Issue 6 Author’s Purpose • Context Clues
• Photographs and Captions
Rain
Forest The Forest Roof ............................................. 36
Gifts Rain Forests: From Soup to Nuts .................. 38
Life in the Rain Forest DIAGRAMS ................... 40
(c) Kevin Schafer/Corbis; (tr) Linny Morris Cunningham/Jupiter Images Welcome

to the

Rain Forest

The rain forest is
a colorful place.
Explore it with us.

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Issue 7 Main Idea and Details • Context Clues
• Diagrams
Make
a Move Digging for Bones ......................................... 42
Animals on the Move.................................... 44
(c) Jorge Gonzalez/The Field Museum; (tr) image broker/Alamy Found! Loose and Limber POETRY .............................. 46

Scientists found bones of a dinosaur.
It may have looked like this.

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Issue 8 Main Idea and Details • Context Clues • Maps

Windy Wow! Wind Works! ...................................... 48
Places Blow, Wind, Blow! ........................................ 50
Cloud Parade POETRY ..................................... 52
(c) Dennis MacDonald/PhotoEdit; (tr) David Ball/Corbis Wind makes things move.
It fills sails and pushes a big
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1/20/09 3:07:41 PM

Issue 9 Main Idea and Details • Context Clues
• Charts
Water
Mystery Sunny Side Up................................................ 54
Where Does the Water Go? .......................... 56
(c) Gerard Lacz/FLPA/Bruce Coleman; (tr) Image Source/Getty Images See Me in the Sea! Sunflakes POETRY ........................................... 58

I am a dolphin.
I see many animals in the ocean.
Meet some of them!

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Issue 10 Main Idea and Details • Context Clues
• Signs and Symbols
What Is
for Dinner? Whoo’s a Wonderful Bird? ........................... 60
Food for Whoo? ............................................ 62
(c) David Grubbs, Billings Gazette/Wide World Photos/AP Images; (tr) Murray, Patti/Animals Animals - Earth Scenes Wise Growing and Changing CHARTS ..................... 64

as an

Owl

This is an owl. It is a bird. “Whoo,”
it says. Find out more inside!

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Issue 11 Author’s Purpose • Context Clues • Charts

American Prize Pets........................................................ 66
Symbols All for America!............................................. 68
Lady Liberty DIAGRAMS ................................... 70
(c) Juice Images Limited/Alamy; (tr) Adam Jones/Getty Images Best

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For many people, the family
dog is always “the best.”

1/26/09 9:50:49 AM

Issue 12 Retell • Context Clues • Photographs and
Captions
Dollars
and Cents Money Goes Around ..................................... 72
How Money Is Made..................................... 74
(c) Tom Stewart/Corbis; (tr) Dennis Brack/Black Star/Newscom U.S. Coins CHARTS ............................................ 76

This boy made money selling 1/26/09 9:33:42 AM
lemonade. What should he do
with the money?

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Issue 13 Compare and Contrast • Context Clues
• Diagrams
Now
and Then Things Change .............................................. 78
What a Trip! .................................................. 80
Read about the(c) NASA; (tr) FPG/Getty Images The Space Shuttle DIAGRAMS ......................... 82
shuttle’s trip.
2/5/09 4:24:27 PM
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Issue 14

Amazing Compare and Contrast • Context Clues
Museums • Signs and Symbols

History Wild About Museums ................................... 84
Weaver A Basket Maker ............................................. 86
Sarah Enters a Painting POETRY ..................... 88
Teri Rofkar makes

baskets. So do many

Native Americans.

(c) James Poulson/Daily Sitka Sentinel; (tr) Richard Cummins/Corbis

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Issue 15 Main Idea and Details • Context Clues
• Photographs and Captions
It’s
Sports Time! Get Ready, Get Set, Go! ................................ 90
Play Ball! ........................................................ 92
(c) Tim Shaffer/Reuters/Corbis; (tr) Brian Bahr/Getty ImagesBeing a From the autograph album POETRY .............. 94

Baseball 2/5/09 4:28:33 PM

Star

Layson Aliviado played in the
Little League World Series.

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(c) Peter Weimann/Animals Animals - Earth Scenes; (tr) Bridget Barrett A Green
School

See the otter?

It lives at the pond.
So do other animals.

It’s a
Wet and Dry

World!

Pond Life Gary Meszaros/Photo Researchers

Ponds are places to row a boat or to swim.
We can hike near them. We can fish in
them. Ponds are also homes for many
animals. They live in and out of the water.

In the morning, a dragonfly
flies in the air. It flies over
the pond and looks for
bugs to eat.

In the afternoon, Kent Foster/Photo Researchers Ron Sanford/Photo Researchers
a swan swims.
Its long neck ducks In the evening,
under the water. a raccoon races.
This mom finds It stays up at night.
plants for its babies It finds plants and
to eat. animals to eat.

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Gay Bumgarner/Alamy

Animals and plants live in, on, and by
the pond. This heron eats bugs and frogs.
It can trap a bug as the bug creeps on a
big lily pad. The pond is a good place to
find food.

neck that stretches
out or tucks in

webbed feet

hard, flat shell

Karen Beckhardt

Issue 1 • 7

Goodwillie School is in Michigan. It is a Bridget Barrett
green school. No, it is not painted green!
Kids work together to help the environment.

Kids reuse and recycle.
Boys and girls do not waste
things here. During class,
they find ways to reuse
things. Brett recycles a
plastic bag to make a kite.

Kids then go outside.
Children in green schools
recycle glass and plastic
bottles after lunch. By
doing this, new products
can then be made.

Courtesy Goodwillie Environmental School

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Bridget Barrett

Children learn about plants and
animals. After class, they go to the
park. They discuss, or talk about,
what they see.

David Coulson

A green school is good for Earth.
Green schools use much less power
and light than other schools. Green
schools can save money. The money
that is saved can help the school.

Issue 1 • 9

A beaver likes to build a dam in a river.
How does it do this?

First, it puts sticks at the very bottom of
the river. Then, the beaver adds stones and
leaves. Soon, the dam blocks the river and
makes a pond. The beaver builds a house,
or a lodge, in the pond.

Here is a picture of a pond. It shows where
a beaver lives.

lodge (c) Robert Glusic/Getty Images; (b) Mike Maydak
den

entrance food

dam

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(c) Chloe/Galbe.com; (tr) Stockdisc/PunchStock World
Water Day

Many children in Africa had
no books. Camels brought
the books to the children!

Garissa is a remote, or faraway, village in the
desert in Kenya. Kenya is a country in Africa.
Children who live near Garissa do not have
any books to read. People all over the world
have given books to a special library for
these children.

Cedric Galbe/Galbe.com

The Desert Express
Camels live in this sandy
part of Kenya. They can
carry up to 400 pounds
of books on their backs.
People, on the other hand,
can’t carry that many!

Sally and Richard Greenhill/Alamy Check Out the Camels
Now camels carry books to
towns near Garissa. Where
you live, there are libraries.
People can get to a library
by walking or taking cars,
buses, or trains.

↑ Children in Texas take
out library books.

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Books Bring Smiles Cedric Galbe/Galbe.com

Children in Garissa now

have books to read. They

love it when the camel

library comes. In one

town, an 11-year-old boy

takes his time with his

book. “I really want the

book to stay in my head,”

he says. ↑ Camels brought these books.
Children like to read them.

A Look at Kenya Ethiopia

Size: 224,960 square miles Somalia
(two times the size of Nevada)
Kenya Garissa
People: 29 million
Nairobi
Capital: Nairobi
Map Key
What people speak: English
and Swahili Capital
City
Where it is: East Africa

Karen Minot

Issue 2 • 13

Not a Drop to Drink Onne van der Wal/Corbis

Water covers a lot of Earth. Arctic Ocean
Still, many people around
the world are thirsty. North Atlantic Europe Asia
America Ocean Africa Indian
Ocean Australia
Pacific South
Ocean America

World Water Day Joe Lemonnier

Water is in oceans, rivers, lakes,

ponds, and puddles, and even in our

sinks. Yet in many places, people

have no water to drink. So world

leaders chose a day to teach about

it. The day is called World Water

Stockdisc/ Day. It is on March 22 of each year.
PunchStock

Water, Water Everywhere All Water on Earth
Most water on Earth is salty.
You can’t drink it. You can 2.5%
only drink fresh water. This fresh water
picture shows the amount
of fresh water and salt 97.5%
water on Earth. salt water

14 • Time For Kids

Charles Rex Arbogast/Wide World Photos/AP Images

What’s Next?
By 2025, there may be eight billion
people on the planet. They will need
more fresh water to drink, to wash in,
and to grow food. World Water Day
makes us think about the importance
of water and how we use it.

Tatan Syuflana/Wide World Photos/AP Images

Water Wise
Kids around the world help
out on World Water Day.
They make posters. They
teach others to save water
by taking short showers and
watering plants at night.

Issue 2 • 15

By Deborah Underwood

Bubbles in the fish tank,
Bubbles in the lake,
Bubbles in the batter
When my mommy bakes a cake.
Bubbles in the ocean,
Flowing with the tide,
Bubbles in the garden
Where a spittlebug can hide.
Bubbles from my bubble wand
Float across the path.
But my favorite kind of bubbles
Are the bubbles in my bath!

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(c) Yves Lanceau/NHPA; (tr) NPS Helping
Out in
the Park

LADY BUGS
GROW UP

These big bugs
begin as eggs.
Then they change.

Find out how!

The life of a ladybug begins in the spring. Jerome Wexler/Visuals Unlimited
A ladybug grows in three stages. Then it
Robert Pickett/Papilio/Alamy becomes an adult.

1 The Egg Stage Scott Camazine/Photo Researchers
A female ladybug finds
a leaf. Then she lays
many eggs.

2 The Larva Stage
An egg hatches. Out
comes a little bug, or
larva. It is much smaller
than a grown ladybug.

3 The Pupa Stage
The larva grows a new hard
skin. It covers the ladybug
like a shell.

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Stephen Dalton/NHPA 4 The Adult Stage
The ladybug then pushes
out of the skin. Its body
is soft and wet. The air
makes it hard and dry.
Now the ladybug is grown!

eye wings

mouth

Look at the tiny

body of a ladybug. antenna
Like all bugs, it has
leg

three body parts and six legs. Masterfile

But its wings are different from those
of other bugs. It has two outer wings.
They cover the thin wings under them.

Issue 3 • 19

NPS/Eric Leonard

Giving Time for the
Common Good

You can see rivers and canyons in
Big Bend National Park in Texas.

You can also meet a park
ranger there. They help people
stay safe and follow rules. They
are paid to do this work.
Ilene MacDonald /Alamy
Arrowhead shape Catherine Karnow/CorbisBadge of Honor

Sequoia National park rangers
tree work for the National
Park Service. All rangers
Mountain wear a patch on their
Bison uniforms. It shows what
the parks stand for.
20 • Time For Kids Why do you think this
shape and these pictures
were chosen?

NPS Some other people
work in Big Bend,
too. They teach people
about the park and
fix trails. These special
people are volunteers.
They work for free.

Volunteers are good citizens.
They make the park a better place.
Their work helps everyone because
the park belongs to everyone.

Some Big Bend volunteers got Charles Holbrook
a big “thank you.” A group called
Issue 3 • 21
Take Pride in America gave awards to
48 Big Bend volunteers who worked
more than 100 hours.

Every day, volunteers give
their time. Some work in
parks. Some work in cities.
Wherever they are, other
people have a good reason
to say “thank you!”

(l) Creatas/PunchStock; (br) Stockbyte By Douglas Florian

The caterpillar’s not a cat.
It’s very small
And short and fat,
And with those beady little eyes
Will never win a beauty prize.
The caterpillar’s brain is small—
It only knows to eat and crawl.
But for this creepy bug don’t cry,
It soon will be a butterfly.

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(c) Steve Satushek/Riser/Getty Images; (tr) Jorge Uzon/Corbis Colorful
Veggies!

Be Happy and Healthy!

Run, play, and eat well. You will
flip for this healthy way of life!

Parts of the body work Jim Craigmyle/Corbis
together to toss a ball or ride
a bike. Eat healthy foods to
keep all body parts healthy.
Many people eat too much.
They also eat foods that are
not good for them. To stay
healthy, keep in shape and
eat good food.

Eat grains for power. Eat cheese and yogurt
Ask for wheat bread for your bones. Smile!
when you eat. Your teeth are strong and
Oats, wheat, healthy because of calcium.
and bran give Drink your milk, too!
you energy.

Courtesy Time for Kids

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Eat fruit for your skin Food Groups
and hair. Bite a berry.
Taste an orange. Fruit To Help You Grow
makes you sneeze less.
Why? Fruit fights off colds. FRUIT
apples
Eat vegetables bananas
for your eyes. strawberries
oranges
Foods like carrots,
squash, and greens VEGETABLES
are packed with broccoli
vitamins. corn
lettuce
Eat meat, fish, carrots
and beans for your
muscles. When you MEAT
eat these foods, you chicken
get stronger. They fish
have lots of protein. beans
beef

DAIRY
milk
cheese
yogurt
eggs

(t to b) Courtesy Time for Kids; Stockdisc/PunchStock; Stockdisc/PunchStock; Courtesy Time for Kids; Ingram Publishing/Alamy; Issue 4 • 25
Fred Lyons/Cole Group/Getty Images; Burke Triolo Productions/Getty Images; Burke Triolo Productions/Getty Images; Ken Cavanagh for
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill; Ingram Publishing/Alamy; Stockbyte; Photodisc/Getty Images

A sweet potato is orange, right? Not always!
Some are dark red. Some are as yellow as a
lemon. Let’s read about others.

Farmers Make Art Kazunori Yoshikawa/A. collection/
A sweet potato starts out orange. Getty Images
But farmers may mix many kinds
of potatoes together. This can
make them turn red. Scientists
can add different colors to the
crops to change their color, too.

Diez, O./Peter Arnold Inc. The Color Purple
Carrots are full of vitamin A.
Vitamin A helps your eyes stay
strong. Have you ever seen
a purple carrot? It may look
funny. But it has extra vitamins!

Kurt Wilson/
Jupiter Images

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Healthy Bites
Farmers now can grow
orange cauliflowers.
These cauliflowers have 25
times more vitamin A than
white ones. Cauliflowers
can also be purple, yellow,
and green. They are a
healthy snack.

Jorge Uzon/Corbis

Colorful Vegetables

The chart shows the colors of some vegetables.

Which color vegetable would you like to eat?

white yellow orange purple

potato potato potato potato

bean bean

cauliflower cauliflower cauliflower cauliflower

carrot carrot carrot carrot
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Christine Schneider

Climb the Pyramid D. Hurst/Alamy

This food chart is shaped like a pyramid.
Read it to learn about the foods that
will keep you healthy. Choose the right
foods from each group to feel good.
Also exercise to be well.

Grains Vegetables Fruits Oils Dairy Meat & Beans
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(c) DLILLC/Corbis; (tr) Jim West Good
Citizens

Elephant families are close.
So are other animal families.

Sharing with Others

Sharing is more than taking turns with
a toy. Sharing is giving and caring.
Good citizens help make things better
for everyone. They help people in the
community or around the world.

Pat grows food for
hungry families.
She collects food at
the community garden.
The food goes to people
in need.

Jim West

Anna and Bob give
their time. They read
to a younger child who
cannot read.

Robin Sachs/PhotoEdit

30 • Time For Kids

(bkgd) Purestock/Jupiter Images Ben Van Hook

Brittany and Robbie help
soldiers. Their group sends
phones to them. The soldiers
can call home. This makes
everyone happy.

AP Photo/Wendy Yang, Charlotte Observer; Tyler collects money and
Photodisc/Getty Images toys. He helps out. He works
with a group that thinks all
kids should get holiday gifts.
Kids smile when Tyler comes
to see them!

1. Toys for Tots collects toys for
children all over the world to enjoy.

2. UNICEF collects money to pay for
food and medicine.

3. The Girl Scouts help girls become
tomorrow’s leaders.

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Thanks, Mom and Dad

Many animal babies start out small and
helpless. Mom and Dad are there! In most
animal groups, the mom takes care of the
young. The dad helps in other ways.

Thanks for the food. Frans Lanting/Minden Pictures
An otter mother feeds its
pup a crab. The baby can
not find its own meal.
The baby leaves its mother
when it’s six months old.

Thanks for the ride.
This crocodile mother
carries its baby. Mom
brings it to the water
for safety. Mom and
baby stay close for up
to two years.

Anup Shah/Nature Picture Library

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Thanks for the lessons.
Cubs learn to hunt by
playing with their dads.
When Mom is out hunting,
the lion protects the cubs.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand/Ardea

Thanks for keeping me
safe. A goose father flaps its
wings. It warns others to stay
away so the baby is safe.

Pete Oxford/Nature Picture Library

Family Names

Animal babies have their own names. Some
baby animal names are funny. Some may
surprise you! Read the list to learn some.

1. A baby goat is a kid.
2. A baby elephant is a calf.
3. A baby tiger is a cub.
4. A baby kangaroo is a joey.
5. A baby frog is a tadpole.
6. A baby skunk is a kit.

Issue 5 • 33

By Avis Harley

Over my arm
she softly flows—
cinnamon coat
and whiskery nose.

With marble eyes
she stops and peeks;
lets me stroke
her knapsack cheeks.

Then ripple-of-fur
takes her leave
to probe new roads
inside my sleeve.

(tc) Digital Archive Japan/Alamy

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(c) Kevin Schafer/Corbis; (tr) Linny Morris Cunningham/Jupiter Images Rain
Forest
Gifts

Welcome

to the

Rain Forest

The rain forest is
a colorful place.
Explore it with us.

The rain forest is very green, wet,
and hot. It is packed with trees
and is full of life.

Some animals send a
warning. It says, “Watch out
for us!” These frogs have lots
of poison on their skin.

George Grall/National Geographic/Getty Images

Some animals just hang
around. Sloths spend time
hanging from trees. Look at
how the baby holds its mother.

Michael & Patricia Fogden/Minden Pictures

Some animals come out
just at night. This bug is
scary to look at. Its spikes
scare off enemies.

Michael & Patricia Fogden/Corbis

36 • Time For Kids

People can spend time exploring the
rain forest. They can walk on bridges
high over the ground. They can see so
much green! Scientists explore the rain
forest, too. They study the plants that
help sick people. The rain forest is the only
place in the world where these plants live.

People on a high bridge see
the rain forest roof.

Michael J. Doolittle/The Image Works

Issue 6 • 37

Rain Forests:
From Soup to Nuts

More than half of the world’s plants
and animals live in rain forests. People
need to help protect the rain forests.

Food from the Rain Forests
Cocoa beans, bananas, some nuts,
and coconuts come from the rain
forests. Without the rain forests,
you would not have vanilla,
needed for baking!

Linny Morris Cunningham/ (tl) Squared Studios/Getty
Jupiterimages Images; (c) Hans Reinhard/
zefa/Corbis; (bl) Yasuhide
Ralph Clevenger/Corbis Fumoto/Taxi Japan/
Getty Images
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Rain Forest Healing Powers

Rain forests have special plants.

One quarter of all of our

medicine comes from 3,000

rain forest plants. Healthy rain

forests keep us healthy, too.

← These plants help cure
illnesses and save lives.

w

From Soap to Rope
Fibers from the rain forests are
found in rugs, ropes, and string.
Oils from the rain forests can
make paint, soap, and shampoo.

(t, b) Photodisc/Getty Images

Better Air
People and animals need a
gas called oxygen to breathe.
Plants make oxygen. Rain
forests help the world breathe
better. They help add more
oxygen to the air.

Rain forests help plants and
animals meet their needs. →

Rain Forests at Risk Andrew Linscott/Alamy
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forest plants and animals need our help.
You can join a rain forest rescue program.
You can celebrate Arbor Day, too. This is
a day to encourage tree planting.

Life in the
Rain Forest

Look at this picture. It shows the layers of
a rain forest and what lives in each layer.

Emergent Layer

the tallest trees

Canopy or Roof

butterflies, birds,
insects, small animals

Understory

more insects and birds

Forest Floor (t), (c) Barbara Spurll

large animals and
more insects

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(c) Jorge Gonzalez/The Field Museum; (tr) image broker/Alamy Make
a Move

Found!

Scientists found bones of a dinosaur.
It may have looked like this.

Peter Makovicky/The Field Museum

Scientists dug. They found bones. Atlantic O
Scientists found a new kind of dinosaur. South
No one knew of this dinosaur before. cean
Pacific Oce
The dig took place in South America
America. Argentina is a country in
South America. That is where two an
scientist brothers found the bones. Argentina

On a Dig Paige Billin-Frye

scientists
brush trowel

saw dinosaur fossil chisel
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Big tools came first. Peter Makovicky/The Field Museum
The scientists used a saw,
trowels, and chisels. They skeleton
pulled out a block of rock.

Little tools came next.
The scientists used brushes
to clean the big block.
They found shoulder and
leg bones.

The skeleton helps scientists learn
about dinosaurs. The scientists put the
bones together. They try to see what the
dinosaur once looked like. Its arms were
like wings. Its nose was long like a beak.
That is why it is called a birdlike dinosaur.

John Weinstein/The Field Museum

Issue 7 • 43

Animals on the Move

People have strong legs for running, britishcolumbiaphotos.com/
hopping, skipping, jumping, and walking. Alamy
How do animals move?

The snail crawls in the grass.
The bottom of its soft body is
like a foot. Strong muscles in
the foot pull the snail’s body
and shell.

The dog runs in the yard. image broker/Alamy
This dog has short legs. Some
dogs have long legs. Most dogs
like to run and jump. This one
is chasing a ball.

NHPA/Stepen Dalton The frog leaps into
the water. It pushes
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back legs. The frog
springs into the air,
then splashes down.

The eagle flies in the sky.
It flaps its wings to rise and soar.
The eagle’s tail helps it turn. When
the eagle is ready to land, it folds
its wings.

Photodisc/PunchStock

The dolphin swims in the sea.
The fin on its back helps the dolphin keep
its balance. It steers and turns with two
flippers. The dolphin’s tail has a flat part
called the flukes. The dolphin glides when
it moves its tail and flukes up and down.

Jeff Rotman/Index Stock Imagery

fin tail

flukes

flippers

Issue 7 • 45

Loose and
Limber

By Arnold Lobel

Loose and limber,
Beanbag Jim
Seems to have
No bones in him.
At carnivals
And vaudeville shows
He ties himself
In knots and bows.
He’s known to all
Throughout the land
As nature’s living
Rubber band.

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(c) Dennis MacDonald/PhotoEdit; (tr) David Ball/Corbis Windy
Places

Wind makes things move.
It fills sails and pushes a big
boat. What else can it do?