Innholdsfortegnelse for April 2020 i Click Science and Discovery Magazine for Preschoolers and Young Children

Noisy Noses A male proboscis monkey’s big nose acts as a kind of echo chamber. The bigger the monkey’s nose, the louder his honks and calls sound. He makes his loudest noises to warn of danger, scare away rivals, and show off for female monkeys. A dolphin breathes air through the blowhole on the top of its head. Some of the air fills small nose sacs beneath the blowhole. The dolphin uses these sacs to make clicks and other sounds. By listening to the sounds’ echoes, the dolphin can tell what’s around it, even in dark waters. Neat Noses In the desert where camels live, wind blows sand everywhere—even up your nose. Yuck! But camels have a trick to keep their noses clean. They can shut their nostrils tight! Sloth…

Who has the world’s largest nose? An elephant, of course. Its trunk is about 6 feet long and weighs around 300 pounds (the size of a large man). Have you ever wondered how you’d look with a different nose? Why not try one of these amazing animal noses? Cut out the noses along the dashed lines. Tape or glue each nose to a pencil or craft stick. Hold the nose in front of your face. Which do you like best? Combine the Greek words for nose (rhino) and horn (ceros), and you get rhinoceros! Hippos keep cool by staying mostly underwater. They don’t need to lift their heads to breathe, because their nostrils stick out of the water and point up. CLICK TAKEOUT PAGES Please remove carefully at fold.…

Jamil Kane wasn’t feeling so great. He woke up with a runny nose. At lunch he started sneezing. By bedtime, he was a stuffy, sniffly, sneezy mess. “I hate having a cold!” Jamil said grumpily. He sneezed—once, twice, three times—and started to wipe his nose on his pajama sleeve. “Hold on a minute, cowboy,” said Mom. “Use a tissue, not your sleeve.” Jamil scowled. “I’d better not have a cold tomorrow,” he warned. “Scott’s coming over to play!” Mom tucked the comforter snug around Jamil. “We’ll see. Get a good night’s sleep, and maybe you’ll feel all better in the morning!” But Jamil didn’t feel better in the morning. He felt worse. “I’m too stuffy to breathe!” he wailed as he padded into the kitchen. “And my mouth is yucky…

Your nose is like a detective, picking up clues and telling you interesting things about your world. Imagine walking down the street toward your grandmother’s house. Her kitchen window is open. You take a deep sniff. Before you even walk through her front door, you know she’s baking cookies. How? The delicious scent rises up from the warm cookies and floats through the air. Your nose has two openings called nostrils. Every time you take a breath, particles of scent move up through your nostrils. When you sniff, more particles come in, and they move higher up in your nose. High inside each nostril is a special area that is crowded with tiny hairlike scent detectors. The scent detectors send messages to your brain, and your brain tells you what…