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1. Why do people breathe?

2. What gas do all cells in the human body need?

3. In the lung, what are the millions of tiny sacs called?

4. What are the little hairs in lungs called?

5. What do cilia act like?

6. Answer the question in 2-3 sentences:

How many times do you breathe in and out a minute? Count it now. When do we breathe faster?

1. How do people breathe? (p.4)


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1. What do some Asian people call Mount Everest?

2. What sometimes crashes down the mountain?

3. What do most climbers take to help them breathe?

4. Who were the first climbers to reach the summit?

5. When did the first blind climber climb up to the top?


Do you want to climb Mount Everest? Why or why not?

2. What is the “Forehead of the Sky”? (p.6)


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1. What animal family do alligators belong to?

2. When does an alligator make its first sound?

3. What do grown alligators do when they are angry or afraid?

4. What is the most common alligator sound?

5. If the weather is too hot or too cold, what do alligators do?


Do you like alligators? Do they look cute or scary? Where do they live, on land or in water?

3. Do alligators have a voice? (p.8)


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1. Who is the first lady?

2. What did Abigail Adams sometimes seem to be doing?

3. What was Franklin Roosevelt’s problem?

4. What did Mrs. Roosevelt tell President Roosevelt?

5. What did Mrs. Roosevelt also try to do?


Do you want to be president or first lady? If so, what will you do if you become president or first lady?

4. What is the first lady’s job? (p.10)


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1. Where can we see the green slime?

2. What colors are algae?

3. Why do astronauts eat algae in space?

4. What gas can algae make?

5. Someday what might people in space need for both food and air?


Have you seen algae? If yes, where did you see them, in a stream, pond, lake, river, or in the sea? What color were they? Can we eat them?

5. Is slime good to eat? (p.12)


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1. When was the Liberty Bell made for the first time?

2. Where is the Liberty Bell?

3. When did the Liberty Bell cheer loudly?

4. On July 8, 1835, what suddenly ripped across the bell?

5. How many people visit the famous bell each year?


Have you ever seen or heard a large bell ringing? Where or when did you see or hear it?

6. How did the Liberty Bell become cracked? (p.14)


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1. What are fossils?

2. What might a trace fossil show?

3. Where are most fossils found?

4. What does the word fossil mean?

5. When wind and water slowly break down the rock, what may be exposed?


Have you ever seen a fossil? If yes, where did you see it? What did it look like?

7. What are fossils? (p.16)


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1. When was Sandra Day O’Connor born?

2. Was Sandra a strong student?

3. How long did most students take to complete law school?

4. Why did Sandra start her own law office?

5. What did Sandra set for herself and others?


What do you want to be in the future? Why do you want to be that? What will you do?

8. Who is Sandra Day O’Connor? (p.18)


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1. Does a snow eater blow everywhere and all the time?

2. When is the special time for a snow eater?

3. When the wind reaches the top of the mountain, what happens?

4. What does the warm wind do at the foot of the mountain?

5. How long may the warm, dry wind last?


Do you have a lot of snow in winter in your country? What do you like to do when you have a lot of snow? Who likes snow, and who doesn’t like snow?

9. What is a snow eater? (p.20)


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1. What does the word totem mean?

2. What do old stories tell?

3. Where did the Native Americans near the Pacific Ocean live?

4. What did the totem poles in front of homes show?

5. What has destroyed many of these totem poles?


Have you ever seen a totem in your country? If yes, where did you see it? Does it have a story?

10. Why did Native Americans make totem poles? (p.22)


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1. After eating other insects, what does the ladybug do?

2. What do aphids do to farmers’ plants?

3. Why do ladybugs fly high into the air?

4. How long do ladybugs stay in the hills?

5. Why do some farmers buy sacks of ladybugs?


What is your favorite insect? What does it look like? Why do you like it?

11. How are ladybugs useful? (p.24)


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1. What do the Amish people use to plow their fields?

2. When fire burns down a friend’s barn, what do the Amish do?

3. On the day of a barn raising, what do the Amish people do first after they get up?

4. In the middle of the morning, what does everyone do?

5. What time is the new barn finished?


Have you ever helped other people? If yes, when and where? What did you do for them?

12. What is a barn raising? (p.26)


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1. How tall can a redwood tree be?

2. How deep may a redwood’s roots be?

3. Do redwood trees grow very far from each other?

4. What are the roots of one redwood tree tangled with?

5. What does it take to keep redwood forests alive?


What can we make or build of wood? What should we do to keep forests alive?

13. Does a giant redwood tree have giant roots? (p.28)


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1. Are houseboats real boats?

2. What do people on houseboats call themselves?

3. What is inside a houseboat?

4. What can liveaboards do for dinner?

5. Why do liveaboards have to be able to get along with each other?


Are there any houseboats in your country? Do you want to live on a houseboat? If yes, what can you do on a houseboat?

14. What is it like to live on a houseboat? (p.30)


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1. How many legs does a dragonfly have?

2. How many wings does a dragonfly have?

3. What do a dragonfly’s legs and spines form?

4. Does the dragonfly always eat while it flies?

5. How long does the dragonfly live?


Do you like to catch dragonflies? What do you need to catch dragonflies? Can you catch them when they are flying?

15. How does a dragonfly use its legs? (p.32)


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1. What did the Indians in South America call the bright fruit?

2. What was the fruit called in Italy?

3. What was the fruit called in France?

4. Why didn’t people eat “love apples”?

5. Why did people sometimes toss the “love apples” to wolves?


Do you like to eat tomatoes? How do you eat tomatoes?

1. What is a love apple? (p.34)


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1. Why is a place called a desert?

2. In hot parts of the world, are the deserts hot day and night?

3. Is there a desert in Greenland?

4. Do deserts get a lot of rain?

5. Does it snow in some deserts?


Do you have a desert in your country? Do you know some big deserts in the world? Where are they?

2. Does it ever snow in the desert? (p.36)


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1. When did people first hear about Laika?

2. What does the name Laika mean?

3. How many days was Laika placed in the satellite before the start of the mission?

4. Why did Laika die just a few hours after the launch?

5. Since Laika’s short mission, what have scientists learned?


What do you want to do for the first time in history?

3. Who was Laika? (p.38)


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1. What did Galileo use to see Saturn?

2. What does Saturn have around it?

3. What is Saturn made of?

4. What are the rings of Saturn made of?

5. Does anyone know for sure how Saturn’s rings were made?


Do you like looking at the stars at night? Have you ever looked at the stars through a telescope? Do you want to study more about stars?

4. What are Saturn’s rings? (p.40)


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1. Who are veterans?

2. When did the First World War end?

3. Why did November 11 become a holiday?

4. Why did veterans risk their lives?

5. Who do Americans honor on Memorial Day?


When is Memorial Day in your country? Is it a holiday? Who do you honor on that day?

5. How do Americans thank veterans? (p.42)


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1. Where must you dive to find lantern fish?

2. How many different kinds of lantern fish are there?

3. How many small round lights does each lantern fish have underneath its body?

4. What color are most lantern fish?

5. What do lantern fish eat?


Have you ever been to an aquarium? If yes, what fish did you see? What was your most favorite fish at the aquarium?

6. What are lantern fish? (p.44)


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1. What is a mermaid?

2. What did lonely men at sea probably see?

3. What might a manatee look like from far away?

4. How long and heavy can a manatee be?

5. Why are some manatees killed?


Have you ever read a story or seen a movie about a mermaid? Was it interesting? What did she do in the story or the movie?

7. How did stories about mermaids start? (p.46)


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1. What does every earthworm have on the bottom of its body?

2. If the soil is loose, how does the earthworm make a tunnel?

3. What does the earthworm use for food?

4. What makes good food for growing plants?

5. What lets rain and air reach the roots of growing plants?


Are earthworms cute or disgusting? Do you like them? Why or why not? Whose friends are they?

8. How does an earthwom dig tunnels? (p.48)


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1. Did the ancient Maya live in North and South Americas?

2. When did the Mayans build many great pyramids?

3. Were most Mayan pyramids tombs?

4. What is on the top of most Mayan pyramids?

5. What are Mayan and Egyptian pyramids made of?


Are there any pyramids in your country? Where were kings and queens buried in your country long ago?

9. What are the Mayan pyramids? (p.50)


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1. Were most feral animals wild animals from the beginning?

2. What do feral animals eat to stay alive?

3. How long do most feral animals live?

4. What do some farmers do to feral animals for killing their animals?

5. Are feral animals helpful to real wild animals?


Can you see feral animals? What animals are they? What can you do for them?

10. What are feral animals? (p.52)


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1. What do blues songs tell about?

2. For a long time, who mostly listened to and enjoyed blues songs?

3. Where and when was W. C. Handy born?

4. Why did Handy have to travel in the boxcar of a train?

5. What were some of Handy’s famous songs?


Do you like music? If yes, what kinds of music do you like? Why?

11. What are the blues? (p.54)


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1. What can scents change?

2. Why are scientists trying different scents?

3. What do people put in cleaners and soaps?

4. What do scientists now understand?

5. What do cinnamon and apple smells remind many people of?


What scents do you like most? Why do you like those scents?

12. How can scents change the way you feel? (p.56)


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1. When was Mary Eliza Mahoney born?

2. What did Mary always want to be?

3. Where did Mary finally go to nursing school?

4. In those days, why was it hard for Mary to get a job?

5. Where did Mary Elisa work as a nurse instead of working in a hospital?


What is a nurse’s job? What do they wear as a uniform? Do you want to be a nurse? Why or why not?

13. Who was the first African American nurse? (p.58)


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1. Why did early settlers in America grow angry with the groundhog?

2. Why does the groundhog dig up fields?

3. What place does a groundhog choose?

4. Where is the back “door” of the groundhog’s hole hidden?

5. How far may a groundhog’s back door be from the front entrance?


What animal dig up farmer’s field and hurt their plants in your country? What do farmers do to get rid of the animals?

14. Why do groundhogs dig up fields? (p.60)


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1. What does “ama” mean in Japanese?

2. What does “funado” mean?

3. What do the ama tie around themselves to make their bodies heavy?

4. Each time the ama dive, how long do they stay down?

5. How long have the ama been diving?


Do you have some women in Korea the same as ama in Japan? Where can you see them? What are they called? What do they do?

15. Who are the ama? (p.62)


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1. What has been removed from the snake?

2. Can the snake hear?

3. Why does the snake watch the flute and move with it?

4. If the snake loses interest, what will it do?

5. Where does the snake charmer’s power come from?


Have you ever seen a snake charmer in your country? Do you want to see a snake charmer when you go to India?

1. Does music charm snakes? (p.64)


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1. What is the sphinx?

2. What did the sphinx do to people unless they gave the right answer to a riddle?

3. What question did the sphinx ask?

4. Did a man give the right answer?

5. What did the sphinx do when it heard the right answer?


Where can we see sphinxes? What do they look like? Do you want to see sphinxes when you travel?

2. What was the riddle of the sphinx? (p.66)


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1. Where do ants live?

2. What is the queen ant’s main role?

3. What do other female ants do?

4. What do the worker ants do to make new tunnels?

5. What do the ants use to give each other messages?


What other social insects do you know? Tell something about them.

3. What are ant colonies? (p.68)


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1. When was Fredrick Douglas born?

2. What did Fredrick grow up to be?

3. When Fredrick was 21, what did he do?

4. Why did Fredrick publish a newspaper?

5. Why did Frederick name the newspaper the North Star?


Where did most slaves in America come from? What did they have to do? Did they have freedom? Who gave them freedom?

4. Who was Frederick Douglass? (p.70)


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1. Where did Bobby live?

2. Where did Bobby’s owner take him?

3. Where do salmon hatch?

4. What do many animals use to find their way?

5. What do some birds use to fly at night?


Have you ever heard about any animal that came back to its home from a new place? Say something about it?

5. How do animals know the way home? (p.72)


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1. What do mannequins look almost like?

2. How old is the oldest mannequin?

3. One hundred years ago, what were many mannequins made of?

4. What funny thing happened to the wax “mannequins?”

5. What are mannequins made of today?


Where can we see mannequins? What are they made of? How do they look?

6. What is a mannequin? (p.74)


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1. What do people do with water?

2. Is there more water to go around than ever before?

3. What should we do instead of baths to save water?

4. What shouldn’t we throw garbage into?

5. If we see someone polluting or wasting, what should we do?


Why is water so important to us? What should we do to save water?

7. How can people save water? (p.76)


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1. What did the native Australians do for food?

2. Today, where can we still see art that is 25,000 years old?

3. What do “dreamtime” stories tell?

4. What did dreamtime myths and paintings remind the early Australians of?

5. In ancient Australian art, do animals and people look real?


Can people see some ancient paintings in your country? Where can they see them? What do the paintings show?

8. What art has lasted for 25,000 years? (p.78)


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1. What are musk oxen often called?

2. What family do musk oxen belong to?

3. For years, why did people kill musk oxen?

4. How many miles of fine wool yarn does one pound of musk oxen’s hair make?

5. If someone comes to take a picture of musk oxen, what may they do?


What animals have wool? Why is wool good for us?

9. What are musk oxen? (p.80)


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1. Who was the first person to reach the North Pole?

2. Who went with Robert Peary?

3. Soon after Uemura started, what attacked him?

4. What stretched as far as the eye could see?

5. How many miles did Naomi Uemura travel to reach the North Pole?


Do you want to travel to the North Pole? How can you go there? From where? What do you want to see in the North Pole?

10. Has anyone ever gone to the North Pole alone? (p.82)


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1. Where do baoab trees grow?

2. How tall do some baobab trees grow?

3. What fruit hangs from the branches of the baobabs?

4. What are baobab leaves used for?

5. In a dry land, how much water can a baobab tree pull in and hold?


What do tall trees give people?

11. Why is the baobab tree special? (p.84)


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1. How many days do kids spend learning and doing the jobs of real astronauts in space?

2. During the day, what do campers do?

3. What do campers eat?

4. At the end of six days, what do Space Campers do?

5. When Space Camp ends, what are boys and girls proud of?


If there is a space camp in your country, do you want to go there? What do you want to do at the camp?

12. What is Space Camp? (p.86)


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1. What do monarch butterflies look like?

2. When do monarchs fly south?

3. How long do monarchs live?

4. In which state is one place known as “Butterfly Town, USA”?

5. What do people do to welcome the butterflies each fall?


Do you like butterflies? In what season can you see butterflies? Where can you see them?

13. What is the mystery of the monarch? (p.88)


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1. How big is Manhattan Island?

2. What is Manhattan known for?

3. What is really special on Manhattan Island?

4. What are immigrants?

5. What do immigrants bring with them to their new home?


Are there many immigrants in your country? How many immigrants live in your country? Which countries are they from? Do you have an immigrant in your neighborhood? Where is he or she from?

14. What is a neighborhood island? (p.90)


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1. Where are the northern lights most often seen?

2. Where is the Earth’s magnetic field stronger?

3. Where do these particles come from?

4. What does the Earth’s magnetic field draw towards the North and South Poles?

5. Where do the particles hit gases?


Have you ever seen a magnet attract something? What objects does it attract? Does it attract wooden objects or plastic objects?

15. What are the northern lights? (p.92)


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1. Who was the creator of Kermit?

2. In college, what did Jim Henson make?

3. Where did the Muppets appear?

4. How many years has Sesame Street been on the air?

5. When did Jim Henson die?


Do you like to watch TV puppet shows? What is your favorite TV puppet show? What is your favorite character in the show?

16. Who was Jim Henson? (p.94)

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