The Kids Book of Charlene Brotman illustrated by Jeila Gueramian Copyright by Charlene - PDF document

wonderfulWEBOFLIFE.YOUarepartof The KidsÕ Book of wesome tuff Charlene Brotman illustrated by Jeila Gueramian Copyright © 2004 by Charlene BrotmanAll rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole.Published by Brotman Marsh-Field Curriculums, Reordering information Copies of the KidsÕ Book of Awesome Stuff may be obtained by contacting:brotmfcurr@aol.com mission to Reproduce Pages: Permission is granted to educators to reproduce individual pages for the purpose of deepening a childÕs sense of being part of a wonderful web of life.Assistant Editor: Noreen KimballLibrary of Congress Control Number 2004097721 Dedicated Together we envisioned this book. Awesome Contents Awesome Stuff #1 YouÕre Made of Star-Stuff1 Awesome Stuff #2 YouÕre Saved by Something Green19 Awesome Stuff #3 The Awesome Thing About Poop and Pee and Dead Stuff That Rots29 wesome Stuff #4 If There Were No Bugs to Bug You47 Awesome Stuff #5 The Ancestor of All Your Ancestors Was Invisible65 Awesome Stuff #6 You Live on a Speck in a Spinning Spiral83 id you kno矉 You wouldnÕt be alive today Over time, some of the elements from the stars formed the Earth and the Sun. Some of that star-stuff ended up in The KidsÕ Book of Awesome Stuff youÕre made of STAR-STUFF, the stars that died? Awesome Stuff #1 Star-Stu oureMadeof That makes YOUSTAR-KID from And IÕm aSTAR-DOG! he KidsÕ Book of Awesome Stuff Those gases were mostly hydrogencrammed clouds of hydrogen andew hotter and hotter. And The first stars in the niverse were born! oxygen, iron, carbon, hydro-gen, nitrogen, and calcium, areall star-stuff from outer space.Parts of stars are in your blood,ingredients make up a cake. Youand air, water and rocks, bacteria,from these elements.The story of the star-stuff thatwere born, and stars that died. LASH Blinding The KidsÕ Book of Awesome Stuff tarsAreStillBeingBorn! Stars are born in clouds of hydrogen gas, such as this one, named N81. The white spots are young stars. The KidsÕ Book of Awesome Stuff tars are giant balls super-heated hydrogen. A star is asun, and the Sun is a star.Starlight and sunlight come from nuclear fusion not from flames.Deep in the core of a star, wherebecome a different, heavier starÕs fuel is hydrogen gas. Star light,star bright,first star I seetonightÉ Éis a giant ballof hydrogengas! yingStarsFlingStuff(elements)intospace! left of this dying star is its coreÑthe white speck in the center. he KidsÕ Boooff The KidsÕ Book of Awesome Stuff Doomed Stars Medium-sized stars like our Sun puff off their outer layers when they die. The glowing puff of gas is called a nebula. Each dies with its own kind of fireworks. CatÕs Eye Nebula is the dying star. It ejects itstwirls around and around. Hourglass Nebula The reddish-orange ringsof gas are nitrogen. ThestarÕs coreÑits nuclearfurnaceÑis the white Ant Nebula The white spot in thecenter of the ÒantÓ isthe dying stargases like two jet engines. Check it out Our galaxy has more than thousanddying stars! he KidsÕ Boooff Cygnus Loop supernova When a star dies, it erupts and crashes in on itself. This is called a supernova The titanic explosion instantly creates even more kinds of ele-ments through nuclear fusion, such as gold, silver, lead, and tin. The photo he KidsÕ Boooff tar-stuff getsrecycled in space. Elements fromrecycles some of this floating star-stuff into new stars.The star that is our Sun was bornaround the newbornstar-stuff clumpedtogether to form nine comets, and rocky asteroids. This is theSystem. You live on the third planet from the sun.star that lived and died beforemoon rocks and marble. idyknow? cientistshavediscoveredmorethan100moonsinourSolarSystem! ooms. Carbon from a star ago, a dying star createdright now, and the iron in cometsand in the EarthÕs core. STAR-STUFF? he KidsÕ Boooff IÕm related to _________________________________ fill in the blankfill in the blank verythingismadeofstar-stuff,thesameasyou. IÕm made ofstar-stuffÉÉsame asyou ou are related since you and all things come fromthe same star-stuff.YouÕre related to your favoriterock and your favorite sea shell.TheyÕre made of star-stuff, the sameas you. YouÕre related to green grass, lizards and star-stuff. he KidsÕ Book of Awesome Stuff mee-DAK-oo-yay o yah-seen MitakuyeOyasin Lakota Native Americans say: We are all 퉗e are all relatedÓ in the Lakotapeople, animals, insects, trees,ds, and rocks are our relatives. We are all related in awonderful web of life on the Earth mee-DAK-oo-yay The KidsÕ Book of Awesome Stuff Awesome things can together.Guess what you get whenone atom of a poisonous, greenish- Q: What do you getwhen two atoms ofbine with one atom ofoxygen, another gas? When atoms of two or more elements join together, they turn different from those elementsÑand silicon transform into sandand hydrogen lecule of Water Easy to make, fun to eat!With toothpicks, connect two smallmarshmallows to a big marshmallow.This is a way to picture a water molecule. The big marshmallow stands for an atom ofoxygen. The two small marshmallows representtwo atoms of hydrogen. make water! Awesome! The KidsÕ Book of Awesome Stuff Since snowflakes are a form of water, they are also made of hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Just think, snowflakes have theirbeginnings in the blast furnace of a star. Photos of Real snowflakesÉ Éand frost, magnified to show the amazing designs. rost is also made of hydrogen and oxygen from a star. The KidsÕ Book of Awesome Stuff he KidsÕ Book of Awesome Stuff destroyed or lost on planet Earth. ecycled. Over andoverAnd finally, some ended upin YOU.When any living thing dies, itdecays and all of the elements thatwercombined together breakapart. It is just as if you pulled a The elements that break apartfrom each other go into theSome of the recycled elements id you knowÉa lot of YOU is also hydrogen and oxygen? One reason is that over half of your bodyÕs weight is water. You aremostly made of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, but you have smallamounts of most of the other elements. The hydrogen in your body is as But how did elements from a starever end up in ME?And me? The KidsÕ Book of Awesome Stuff On their journey, the elementsrecycle from living things to non-your body will journey on tobecome part of earth, or air, or The Long, Long, Back-and-Forth Journey Add something to the picture above that you think might have had elements that are now part of you. made of star-stuff.You are alive today on thisancient, glowing stars. YouÕreYouÕre The same elements that are now part of your body may once he KidsÕ Book of Awesome Stuff Record All the Cool Things You Find in Nature! STAR-STUFF JOURNAL journal is a record of on your journal page. Nowcolorful mushrooms, animal(be sure to replace them carefully), inside tree holes, sketch, itÕs made of star-stuff, to remember them better. akeYourOwn Once you start that you see many thingsyou never noticed before.ou see with Ònew eyes.Ó The KidsÕ Book of Awesome Stuff STAR-STUFF Word Search Find the names of some of the elements thatwere once inside a star. The names go forward,backward, up, down and on the diagonal. oxygen carbon calcium mercury and look at a star.And look at your hands and your whole self, that were once in a star.How do you feelSTAR-KID? The KidsÕ Book of Awesome Stuff