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It’s the weekend and
With binoculars you can
you have finished your
watch birds find food,
chores. What will you
eat, or care for their
do with your free time?
young.
Maybe you will play a
It helps zoologists
game or read a book.
understand more about
There are many ways
their life cycles.
to spend your spare
time!
Birds are incredible
By learning about
creatures. They come
animals’ habits,
in many different
zoologists can help
shapes, sizes, and
them survive in their
colors.
environments.
Birds can be tiny. Some
hummingbirds are only
two inches long! Other
birds are much larger.
Have you ever found
old items in an attic?
Eagles have wingspans
of almost eight feet!
Birds can be very
different from each
other.
People sometimes like
to save old items, such
as stamps or an oil
painting on an old
board.
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Then they may sell
them to customers at a
yard sale.
Watching birds and
other animals is
important.
Telescopes are made up
of a set of lenses,
mirrors, or both.
It is fun to find old
treasures from the
past. Sometimes old
items are labeled.
People have watched
the stars in the night
sky for thousands of
years.
When items are not
labeled and you do not
know what they are,
you can research the
past to learn more
about them!
Archeologists heard
about the statue and
visited the workers.
Science is a part of our
daily lives. Turn your
interests into hobbies
to learn and have fun!
What you learn about
animals now may help
you become a
veterinarian in the
future!
A veterinarian is a
doctor who takes care
of animals.
Archeologists
researched the past to
learn more about the
treasured statues.
Pinky the pig rolled
past on her roller
states.
The science hobby that
you start today could
become your job in the
future..
Astronomers use huge,
powerful telescopes to
study planets and stars
that are trillions of
miles away.
A hippo put her nose to
the rock and licked.
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Another rock is
sedimentary rock.
Sandstone is
sedimentary rock.
Granite is igneous rock.
Granite is usually gray.
It can have tiny white
and black crystals.
Limestone is often
white. It can be pink,
tan, or other colors
too.
Limestone is
sedimentary rock too.
Granite is igneous rock.
Granite is usually gray.
Rivers carry sand to
lakes and seas. Layers
of sand settle to the
bottom.
It is made from sea
animals’ skeletons.
Sometimes you can see
the skeletons in the
rock.
Mom picked up another
rock from the kit. The
third kind of rock is
metamorphic rock.
Heat and pressure
change some rocks into
metamorphic rocks.
Marble is metamorphic.
“This pressing turns
sand into sandstone.
Sandstone is soft and
sandy,” Mom said.
The top layers of sand
press down on the
bottom layers.
Sandstone is
sedimentary rock.
Rivers carry sand to
lakes and seas.
It can have tiny white
and black crystals.
Some granite has pink
crystals.
Every Saturday Danny
and Tina helped their
mother with chores
around the house.
. It will be fun. Not
every box is labeled.
You never know what
you’ll find.”
Igneous rock is the
most common rock. It
is made by heat.
It flows out as lava.
Cooled lava is igneous
rock.
The crust is the thin
outer layer. It has
three kinds of rocks.
. Magma is hot melted
rock in the center of
Earth.
Layers of sand settle
to the bottom. The top
layers of sand press
down on the bottom
layers.
Earth has three layers.
The core is at Earth’s
center. The middle
layer is called the
mantle.
“I think this box is
heavy because it has
some of Grandpa’s
rocks,” Mom said as
they unpacked the box.
“Later on, he made rock
kits that customers
bought. I bet we’ll find
a spare kit in this box.
It looks like a board.”
“Here it is,” Danny said,
lifting up the kit.
“Grandpa must have
known a lot about
rocks.”
Sometimes magma
pushes to the surface
through a volcano.
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Most gems are formed
from minerals.
Many gemstones are found
here in the United States,
and others are found
thousands of miles away on
different continents.
Amethyst is also mined in
the South American
countries Brazil and
Uruguay and in the African
countries Madagascar and
Zambia.
July’s birthstone is the
ruby. It has a deep,
glowing, red color and
is very hard.
September’s birthstone
is the sapphire. Like
aquamarine and peridot,
sapphire is transparent.
To become a gem, a
mineral must cool and
harden into a solid
crystal.
You will find the names
of the countries where
each gemstone is found
as you read the
following pages.
March’s birthstone is the
aquamarine. Aquamarine
is transparent, which
means that light can pass
through it.
When moved from
sunlight to artificial
lighting, Alexandrite
changes from green to
reddish-purple. This
makes it very valuable!
Opal is October’s
birthstone. Opal can be
blue, green, black, or
white.
They are often rough
and unevenly shaped.
But January’s
birthstone comes in
every color except
blue.
Here in the United States,
aquamarine is mined in the
state of Colorado. In fact,
aquamarine is Colorado’s
state gem!
Alexandrite is June’s
birthstone. This green
stone was first
discovered in Russia in
1830.
November’s birthstone is
citrine. Citrine is formed
from a type of colored
quartz. Quartz is a
transparent mineral.
Gemstones come in every
color of the rainbow, and
when they are cut and
polished, their colors
sparkle and shine.
This garnet is called
the “anthill garnet”
because it is actually
mined by ants!
Because of a diamond’s
hardness, almost nothing
can wear it down. In fact,
it can be cut only by
another diamond.
Peridot, like aquamarine,
is transparent, and most
peridots have a light
green or greenish-yellow
color.
When they are first
discovered and mined,
most gems look like
ordinary rocks.
It ranges in color from
a very light lavender to
a dark purple.
Diamond is also mined in
Russia and in three
African countries, Congo,
Namibia, and Botswana.
What makes a perfect
emerald? Emeralds with a
deep green color and no
flaws, or defects, are rated
best.
The last of the twelve
birthstones is
December’s blue topaz.
The blue topaz looks
similar to aquamarine.
When you treat a
colorless topaz with
heat, the topaz takes
on a sky blue color.
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