Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2018 i Click Science and Discovery Magazine for Preschoolers and Young Children

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A pattern is a design that repeats or gets arranged according to a rule. It can be made of lines, shapes, colors, numbers, and more. Do you see the patterns here? One type of flat, repeating pattern has a fancy name—tessellation. It’s made of shapes that fit together perfectly, without any gaps or overlaps, like a tile floor that never ends. Some tessellations use just one simple shape over and over. The shapes can be different colors. Some use more than one shape or wild, funny shapes.…

What’s a fractal? Make these shapes and see. Draw a straight line about as long as your finger. At its top, add two new lines to make the letter Y. Make each of those two lines into Y shapes by adding two new lines to their tops. Now make those lines into Y shapes. Keep making every new line that you add into a Y shape until the lines get too small. Start a new shape. Draw a big triangle whose sides are all the same length. Draw a dot in the middle of each side. Connect the dots to make a smaller upside-down triangle, and color it in. See the three triangles around your colored triangle? Draw a dot in the middle of each of their sides. Connect those…

What you need • a small index card or thin cardboard rectangle • scissors • pencil • tape • paper 1 . Draw a goofy line from the top of the card to the bottom. 2 . Cut along the line, and slide the right-hand piece to the left. 3 . Line up the straight edges, and tape the two pieces together. 4 . Draw another goofy line from one side of the card to the other. 5 . Cut along the line, and slide the top piece to the bottom. 6 . Line up the straight edges, and tape the two pieces together. 7 . Carefully trace around your new shape on the paper. Move the shape to find where it fits, and trace around it again.…

“Mommy!” called Hunter, “I can’t go to sleep! I need my rocket pajamas!” “Don’t you remember?” asked Mommy. “When you got your bigger bed, I told you it was time to get bigger pajamas too. You’ve grown three inches. The arms were too tight. The legs were too short. And there was a big hole in one knee.” “That wasn’t a hole,” moped Hunter. “That was a passage to a secret planet.” Mommy just smiled and handed him his new pajamas, all folded up. Hunter wriggled into them and frowned. They fit him all right, but they just weren’t the same. They were covered in boring old stripes—and not a single rocket ship. The next day Hunter did what he always did when he was mopey. He went next door…