Let's Make Great Projects

82 Pages·24.242 MB·English

by  NILL, DK

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LET’S MAKE
Senior Editor James Mitchem
Editor Sally Beets
Design and illustration Victoria Palastanga GREAT
Additional design Sadie Thomas
Design assistance Eleanor Bates
Photographer Ruth Jenkinson
Pre-Production Producer Tony Phipps
Senior Producer Inderjit Bhullar
Jacket Co-ordinator Francesca Young
Managing Editor Penny Smith
Managing Art Editor Mabel Chan
Publisher Mary Ling
Art Director Jane Bull
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First published in Great Britain in 2018 by T
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Dorling Kindersley Limited E
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80 Strand, London, WC2R 0RL O
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Copyright © 2018 Dorling Kindersley Limited
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ISBN: 978-0-2413-1619-1
Printed in China
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LET’S MAKE
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Contents
Egyptian sarcophagus
Shark attack!
Alien invasion
SPACE HISTORY ANIMALS
6 The Solar System 40 Ancient Egypt 56 The animal kingdom
8 Button planets 42 Papyrus scroll 58 Stone creatures
10 Marshmallow constellations 44 Pyramid money box 60 Bird feeder
12 Alien invasion 46 Egyptian sarcophagus 62 Making tracks
14 Space travel 48 The Roman Empire 64 Cardboard giraffe
16 Straw rockets 50 Roman shield 66 Shark attack!
52 Cookie coins
18 Space patches
54 Lion mosaic
20 Bottle jetpack
22 Space helmet SCIENCE
68 Super science
Grass haircuts
NATURE
70 Grass haircuts
72 Brilliant bubbles
24 The seasons 74 Liquid layers
26 Season tree 76 Fizzing balloon
30 Nature mask
32 Weather 78 Templates
34 Smiling sundial 80 Index
36 Measure the rain
38 Wind chimes
Lion mosaic
Season tree Brilliant bubbles
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Egyptian sarcophagus
Shark attack!
ANIMALS
56 The animal kingdom
58 Stone creatures
60 Bird feeder
62 Making tracks
64 Cardboard giraffe
66 Shark attack!
SCIENCE
68 Super science
Grass haircuts
70 Grass haircuts
72 Brilliant bubbles
74 Liquid layers
76 Fizzing balloon
78 Templates
80 Index
Brilliant bubbles
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Let’s learn about...
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Neptune
Saturn
Uranus
Space is VERY big – bigger than you can
possibly imagine! Our planet (Earth) is
in a part of space called the Solar

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System with seven other planets. 8
Jupiter
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At the centre m
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star called the
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Sun. It’s a huge, Mercury S

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fiery ball of gas. t
ut The Solar
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Venus Ma k e System is our
place in space.
WWee lliivvee
The Sun
hheerree!!
Studying space What else is out there?
It’s very difficult to explore space, so scientists use telescopes and probes We don’t know! There may be aliens on other planets, but
to see far away. The probe called Voyager I has travelled beyond the planets! space is really huge and we’ve only seen a tiny part of it so far.
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The Solar System
Neptune
Saturn
Uranus
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Jupiter
e
g
a
p

n
o

m
e
Mars t
s
y
S

r
a
l
o
S

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t
ut The Solar
b
a
Ma k e System is our
place in space.
We live
here!
What else is out there?
We don’t know! There may be aliens on other planets, but
space is really huge and we’ve only seen a tiny part of it so far.
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Neptune
planets
Button Mars
Earth is
spinning at
1,000 mph (1,600
Mercury is the kph) but because
smallest planet.
it’s a constant
Uranus
The real Solar System may be
speed, we don’t
Mercury
notice it.
gigantic, but this rotating model Find eight
buttons that are
of the planets is small enough to
similar colours to
twist up and fit in your pocket! the planets. Use
Venus
The Sun Jupiter, the
the biggest one
biggest planet in
for Jupiter.
the Solar System,
You will need: has at least
• black and yellow card Saturn 67 moons!
• scissors
• buttons
• PVA glue
It takes Earth one
• paintbrush
year to travel
Check the order of the
• split pin around the Sun. Earth Jupiter
planets on pages 6-7.
1 Cut black card into eight strips of 2 Glue a button for Mercury to the 3 The buttons can
different lengths. Cut a yellow circle shortest strip. Then add a button for move around
for the Sun. Venus to the next. Continue for the rest. Push a split pin the Sun – just
through the Sun like in the real
and the end of Solar System.
each black strip.
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