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Brush painting
Materials - containers (four) - newspaper (want-ad section) - paintbrushes (large) - tempera paint (blue, red, yellow) - water Before you begin this project, cover your work area with layers...
WHERE LAND AND WATER MEET
Some coastlines are beaches where sand and water meet. But some coastlines have no beaches. Instead, water crashes against the side of a mountain, or water slaps against the side of a glacier. Some...
TAMING A RIVER
The once-wild Colorado River has been tamed. A mighty dam keeps the river from overflowing and flooding houses and farmlands. Water from the river goes to farms in three states. The river also makes...
SAVING THE DROWNING LAND
Did you ever hear the tale about the little Dutch boy who saved his land? His name was Peter and he lived in a small village in the Netherlands, or Holland. One evening, Peter saw water leaking...
AN OCEAN OF SAND
You'd never expect to find skeletons of fish in the Sahara desert in Africa. But scientists have found them there. Long ago, the Sahara desert may have been an ocean of water. If that is true, the...
THE SMOKE THAT THUNDERS
One of the most beautiful waterfalls in the world is on the Zambezi River in Africa. At the river's halfway point, between the countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe, the water plunges over Victoria...
GREAT GUSHING GEYSERS!
A geyser shoots water like a fountain. But a geyser shoots steaming hot water from a hole deep in the ground. Some geysers shoot water high into the air. Others just bubble up from the ground. Some...
SHOWER FOR A GIANT OR TWO
The Niagara Falls are two falls. The American Falls are on the left in this picture, and the Horseshoe Falls in Canada are on the right. Niagara Falls would be a great place for a giant to take a...
WHAT A RIVER!
Many smaller rivers join the mighty Amazon as it nears the Atlantic Ocean. > The Amazon River is so wide, the people living in this village can > hardly see the other side. The Amazon River is...