The Backpack
"Pack your bag! It's time to experiment."
An open backpack. Floating above it are tools: ruler, timer, notebook, pencil.
About this page
Chapter 4 begins the way every good adventure does, with packing. A ruler, a timer, a notebook, and a pencil hover over the open backpack, and each one is a real research tool in kid form, for measuring, timing, and writing things down. The page teaches that experiments do not just happen, they are prepared for, and choosing your tools is the first act of planning. Everything floating here can be found in a kitchen drawer, which is exactly the spirit of these 5 kitchen science experiments you can try at home once the bag is packed.
Talk about it while you color
- Which tool would you grab first, and what would you use it for?
- What else would you pack in your own science backpack?
- Why do you think the Squad wants a notebook and pencil for an experiment?