The Abstract
"The Abstract is a short story of the whole project."
A tiny postcard summary of the whole adventure.
About this page
How do you fit a whole adventure onto a postcard? That is the challenge of the abstract, a tiny summary that tells busy readers what happened in just a few lines. This page invites children to think about what matters most, because summarizing means choosing. It is the same skill kids use when they explain a project in one breath at the fair, a real cornerstone of science fair success. Coloring a small postcard about a big journey helps the idea sink in, big stories can travel in little envelopes.
Talk about it while you color
- If you had to tell the squad's whole story in three words, which words would you pick?
- Who would you mail this postcard to?
- What was your favorite part of the adventure so far, in one sentence?