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       /!*€   •  ^orT)eone dropped an important note, bat sticky fingers wiped ocit
 ^ y           some of the words. Follow the scispect's footprints arocind the
                  hocise to learn more abocit the Earth and its resources, and to look
for clcies to solve the mystery at the end.     ^ rv/v\  Color in the pictures as you go/

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                           Wait/ The suspect stopped at the tree. A
                           tree is a natural resource because it is a
                           pant of the Earth that helps animals,
plants, and people live and grow Trees make food like apples and nuts and
provide wood for items like paper and furniture. Air, water, and land are
other types of resources. Look at the pictures below. Can you put a
circle around the things that come from trees on wood?

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Mow that you've followed the trail inside the house, look
around for awhile. In each room, one person is saving
resources while the other is not Saving resources is imponta,.
because there is only so much to go around. When we save, we
conserve good things from the Earth, like resources. Can you
detect the savings and colon the best choice?

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Something is wrong with this picture.' Old cans,  (*£^_j)  plastic bottles,
newspaper,  \\0^^\ anc^ glass ^N\ don't have to be thrown away. They
can be tanned \J_CL^ into somethinq new and ased aqain. This is called
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necuclinq. Can uoo circle the things that belong in a recycling ^

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The old cans, bottles, and paper you collected for recycling
can be made into new things. Making new things from
recycled ones takes less money, less energy, and less of the
Earth's resources. Use the code below to ancover how the
driveway, bike, slide, and monkey bar change from old to new.'
Write the missing letters inside the shapes.
OLD  SOD a  c
                        BOTTLED
       =A    
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    : carefully through the next pant of the trail, detective. The paint bag
spray, and cleaners in this garage can be dangerous. Some have a poison
sticker so you know not to eat on drink them. Take cane while moving them
and stone them in safe places. Can you find the place where they can be
stored safely until they can be removed properly from yoan home?
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What is this strange pile in the backyard?
If you let vegetables, fruits, leaves,
and grass not in a pile, they will turn into
compost Compost looks like soil. You
can put it in your garden to help plants grow.
Can you draw more things that go in a
compost bin?
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Yoci spotted everything the suspect saw on his trail. Mow yoa
can neac^ ^e ncr'~e a'O(L1^ ^° 'eann ^e answens "to f he mystery.
And you'll find oat aboat yocin next assignment
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for $avmcj
  Recycling £ave$
                                            Old to New
                                    Old Soda Cans
Handle with.
                                   add your own
                                   — fruits
                                   — vegetables
                                   — leaves
                                   — grass clippings
                                   to this drawing
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