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This issue’s leprechaun will guide young readers to explore solar energy—where it comes from, how we can capture and store it, and how we can all be ‘greener’ in our efforts to sustain and renew our natural resources. Activities revolve around the sun—from word puzzles, to newspaper scavenger hunts, to word searches and sudoku, the sun is the theme in this environmentally friendly issue for young stewards of the earth.
In this issue students will
- understand the difference between renewable and nonrenewable energy resources
- learn how cells capture solar energy
- use the newspaper to locate ‘sun’ words
- conduct a simple sun experiment
- use the internet to explore more fun sun facts and games
- conduct an energy poll and summarize information
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