National Geographic Kids USA - March 2017

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Disaster Class

My class had been waiting for

largenumber

months to do a fun chemistry experiment. Today we were

going to learn how to

verb noun,plural

out of

noun,plural

. “First dissolve

one gram of

typeoffruit,plural

in one liter of water. Then

verb

the mixture,” said my

teacher, Mr.

typeofpet

. Before I finished, he was already giving more instructions. To keep up,

I

past-tenseverb

a pinch of

noun

and threw it into a cup of

liquid

.

“Now

verb

it

adverbendingin-ly

for two minutes,” he said. Trying to hurry, I added a few

noun,plural

and

noun,plural

, then

past-tenseverb

it three times. Suddenly the air

around me turned

color

and smelled like

somethinggross

. My lab partner dived under the

typeoffurniture

as the mixture began to

verb

. Then the experiment
past-tenseverb

all over

the room, covering everyone in

adjective

goo. I guess that wasn’t quite the reaction I was looking for.

BY MARGARET J. KRAUSS

Ask a friend to

give you words to

fill in the blanks

in this story with-

out showing it to

him or her. Then

read out loud

for a laugh.

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30 MARCH 2017