Main Idea

Rabbits live together in burrows. Their babies are born blind and without fur. Hares live alone above the ground. Their babies are born with fur and are not blind. In addition, hares are usually bigger than rabbits.

What is the Main Idea?

• Hares are bigger than rabbits

• Hares and rabbits are not the same

• Rabbits live together in burrows.

It all started in 1904 at the St. Louis World's fair when an ice cream vendor ran out of dishes for his ice cream. A man named Ernest Hamwi was selling waffles in the booth next door. He helped his neighbor out by making cone-shaped waffles to hold the ice cream. The rest, as they say is history.

What is the main idea of this paragraph?

• The ice cream cone was invented in 1904.

• They ran out of ice cream at the World's fair.

• Ice cream is a yummy treat.

Strong magnets are put into some roller coasters. They are also put into the end of the track. As the coaster approaches the end of the track, the attracting forces of the magnets bring it to a gentle stop.

• Roller coasters stop at the end of the track.

• Some kind of roller coasters use magnets to make them stop.

• Roller coasters are fun.

Julia Butterfly Hill climbed a giant Redwood tree on December 10, 1997. She stayed in the tree, which was located in Northern California, for two years. Many people helped her by bringing her food and supplies. She did come down until the logging company promised to never cut the tree down.

• Julia Butterfly Hill lived in a giant Redwood tree for two years to keep it from being cut down.

• The logging company did not cut down the tree.

• The tree was located in Northern California.

In Washington State, the Department of Fish and Wildlife gives each participating classroom 500 salmon eggs. When the eggs hatch, the children care for the baby salmon an learn about their life cycle. When the salmon are big enough, the class goes on a field trip, to release the salmon into a stream or river.

• Each class gets 500 salmon eggs

• School children in Washington State are raising salmon

• The salmon are released into streams and rivers.

Giant pandas live in bamboo forests in China. The average giant panda eats about 30 pounds (14k) of bamboo each day. Unfortunately, the forests are being cut down and the giant panda is losing its habitat.

• Giant pandas eat a lot of bamboo.

• Giant pandas live in China.

• Giant pandas are losing their habitats.

Incense cedar wood is used for making pencils because it does not break easily, but is soft enough to be sharpened without splintering. It also won't bend of warp in hot temperatures. Incense cedar trees are grown in California and Oregon.

• Incense cedar wood is perfect for making pencils.

• Incense cedar trees are grown in California and Oregon.

• Incense cedar wood will not splinter when sharpened.

Here is something dun to try! Lay an egg on its side and try to make it spin. If it is not hard-boiled the shifting inside will make it spin poorly. If it's hard boiled the solid inside will make it spin faster and longer.

• The shifting liquid inside makes it hard to spin

• A hard boiled egg will spin faster and longer

• You can tell if an egg is hard boiled by spinning it.

One day in Switzerland a man named Geroge de Mestral decided to take his dog for a walk. When he got back to his house,he saw that there were many small burrs clinging to his dog's fur. He examined under a microscope how the burrs were sticking and ended up using what he saw to invent Velcro.

• The idea of Velcro came from nature

• Blurrs were clinging to the dog's fur,

• George de Mestral invented Velcro

The Atacama Desert is located on a plateau in northern Chile. It almost never rains in Atacama Desert. In fact, there are areas of a desert where rainfall in the Atacama is just one millimeter. Nowhere else on Earth is dryer than Atacama Desert.

• The Atacama Desert is in Northern Chile.

• The Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth.

• Rainfall has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert.