Things Around Us
How things are made
Make a sheet of paper out of an old newspaper in the right order, tell the five Rs of waste management apart, and match a kind of paper to the job its thickness suits it for.
Pihu was painting on a Sunday when she noticed a picture of trees on the front page of her mother's newspaper. The story said that recycling paper saves trees. Trees and paper — what had one to do with the other? By the end of the afternoon she had torn that newspaper up, soaked it, mashed it and rolled it into a sheet of her own.
Where paper begins
Paper comes from trees. Your drawing book came from trees, so did the newspaper, the paper napkins on the table and the chart paper you use for school projects. Once you have seen that, the picture on the front page makes sense: fewer new sheets means fewer trees.
Have a play
Three kinds of paper, seen from the side so their thickness shows.
Tap any part of the picture.
Worked example
The newspaper said that recycling paper saves trees. How does that actually work?
Start from where a new sheet comes from: a tree is cut, and the wood is turned into pulp.
That is the step the saving has to happen at — nothing else in the chain involves a tree.
Try it together
Let us name what Pihu found out, together.
Two words and a plan, taken from the second half of the chapter.
1.Pihu touched a pot that looked like paper but felt rough, not smooth like her drawing book. Her mother said that was because of what it was made from. What was it?
Have a go
Your turn. Which list gives the kinds of paper the chapter asks you to look at and compare?
Ready to practise?
Eight questions on what you have just read. Nothing is timed, and you can play as many times as you like.