Innholdsfortegnelse for October 2016 i Click Science and Discovery Magazine for Preschoolers and Young Children

Ask a friend to stand behind you and use one finger to write a word on your back. Can you tell, just by feeling, what your friend wrote? Take turns writing words on each other’s backs. More friends can play if you all stand in a line. The person at the back of the line writes a word, and each person in line passes it on to the person ahead. If you have enough people, you can even form teams and see which line correctly passes a word the fastest.…

It’s stretchy and strong and waterproof. It’s full of holes. You can find lots of it in dust bunnies. It can repair itself. It helps you stay warm when it’s cold and helps cool you down when it’s hot. It has ridges. The parts you can see now will be replaced in a month or two by completely new bits. Your skin has three main layers. Your skin is like a wall that goes around your entire body. It keeps your insides in and everything else out. epidermis Your epidermis is showing! That’s the outer layer of your skin. It’s about as thick as a sheet of paper. dermis The dermis is the middle layer of skin. fat The bottom layer of skin is mostly made of fat. It helps…

I told you I didn’t want a haircut.” I stared at my reflection in the window while Susie unlocked the front door. I looked really weird with my hair so short. “Your mom made the appointment,” said Susie as we went inside, “and moms rule. Besides, your hair looks great.” I guess my dog, Tucker, agreed. He was so glad to see me he didn’t just wag his tail, he wagged every part of his body. I hugged him and scratched his favorite spot, right behind his ears. Then I announced, “I’m bored.” “You could finish your picture,” said Susie. I looked at the picture I’d been making before we went out. It was a jungle scene made from cut-out shapes pasted on a colorful background. “Nah,” I said. “I…

Cut out the 18 cards and the game board. Put the yellow-backed cards facedown in one loose pile and the red-backed cards facedown in another loose pile. Two to four people can play this game. Each person needs a marker for the game board. Buttons or coins or tiny toys work well. Players place their markers behind the start line at the bottom of the board and try to move up to the top. The first player picks up one red card and one yellow card, then turns them over and decides whether the item shown on the yellow card feels like the description shown on the red card. For example, does an ice cube feel cold? If yes, the player moves his or her marker forward one step. If…

At the park, a cool breeze softly blows across your arms. Tall grass tickles your bare feet. You sit and—ouch!—slide over to avoid a sharp rock. Hot or cold? Wet or dry? Rough or smooth? Hard or soft? Your sense of touch tells you a lot about the world around you. You see with your eyes, hear with your ears, and smell with your nose. But you use your whole body to touch. Millions of tiny touch receptors cover every bit of you. They lie just under the surface of your skin. When the touch receptors feel something, they send a message along your nerve pathways to your brain. Different kinds of receptors report heat, cold, pain, and pressure. Your brain combines all the messages to figure out exactly what…

PEEL Sure, you’re constantly shedding tiny flakes of skin. But a snake sheds the top layer of its skin all at once in one big piece. Its skin doesn’t grow with its body, so the snake wiggles out of its old, too-tight skin, leaving it inside out. Underneath is a new, looser layer of skin. Some frogs shed their skin every day. Others shed once a week or so. But you won’t find a frog’s old skin lying around like a snake’s. The frog pulls the old skin into its mouth as it sheds, and eats it! The skin is too full of good nutrients to waste. POISON Salamander skin is poisonous! Just touching a salamander usually won’t hurt its enemies, but licking or eating one can. Most salamanders and…

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You have touchy, feely skin all over your body, but just try using your elbow or leg to tell a book from a ball. It’s not so easy. Your fingers do a much better job of feeling. But most animals don’t have fingers. How do they feel things? Cats and many other animals who prowl at night can feel with the whiskers on their faces. These long, stiff hairs connect to nerves under the fur and skin. When a whisker touches something, the nerves send messages to the animal’s brain, helping it “see” in the dark. We bet your hair can’t do that. A manatee’s small eyes don’t see well, especially in the dark, cloudy water where it lives. Luckily, the manatee’s whole body is covered with whisker-like hairs. Manatees…

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