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What’s your favorite snack food? Millions of Americans—and countless people worldwide—love to bite into a salty crunchy potato chip to satisfy their snack cravings. How did the humble potato come to be such a popular international favorite food? This issue “unpeels” the mystery and invites readers to learn some tasty facts. Discover how a single invention launched the once rare and expensive treat into its future as a top-selling food item. Let Dr. Spud guide you through a simple experiment demonstrating the connection between your senses of taste and smell. Record your results and form conclusions just live a real scientist—and enjoy the many ways the versatile potato shows up on your plate!
In this issue students will:
- read informational text about potatoes
- conduct a simple taste experiment
- navigate a potato maze
- discover the USA’s “Potato State”
- complete a newspaper scavenger hunt
- locate 1, 2, 3 or 4-syllable words
- pen a potato poem
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