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6GB15p0102-3132-Section-1.indd 1 6/9/15 2:07 PM Spend a day at a butterfl y house.
Soft wings .
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designs do you see? Butter�lies are fun!
Nurse Nancy �ixes broken dolls. She patches them. She �ixes hair, eyes, and The doll hospital is open. teeth. She Visit a tropical butterfl y house if you can. The rooms will be hot and damp. That’s how the ▼ even sews butterfl ies that live inside like it. They will sip juice from oranges that are cut open. They might even land on your face! God created thousands and thousands of different kinds of butterfl ies. new clothes. Many of these live in South America. Nancy Korsak has always loved dolls. Her grandfather taught her how to work with her hands. ▼ An aunt showed her how to sew. So now she repairs broken and damaged dolls. Some dolls Do you have are worth thousands of dollars because they are antiques. Others are playthings that have been a doll that TEACHING TIP scuffed or broken. GOD’S BIG WORLD, Issue 6, July 2015 (ISSN #2162-5573, USPS #007-920) is published 6 times per year—September, November, January, March, May, and July, for $23.88 per year, by God’s World News, God’s World Publications, 12 All Souls Crescent, Asheville, NC 28803. Periodicals postage paid at Asheville, NC, and additional mailing offi ces. needsPOSTMASTER: help? Send address changes to GOD’S BIG WORLD, PO Box 20001, Asheville, NC 28802-8201. • PUBLISHER: Howard Brinkman, MANAGING EDITOR: Rich Bishop, EDITOR: Victoria Drake, Member of Associated Press. CUSTOMER SERVICE: (800) 951-5437, SALES & MARKETING: (828) 232-5437, [email protected]. • MAILING ADDRESS: God’s Big World, PO Box 20001, Asheville, NC 28802-8201. Telephone (828) 253-8063. ©2015 God’s World News, God’s World Publications. 2 July/August 2015 • God’s Big WORLD
6GB15p0102-3132-Section-1.indd 2 6/4/15 3:16 PM Mr. S. gets used bars of soap from hotels. Workers grind it up. They shape it into new bars. Then they give it to people who have no soap.
Soap kills germs.
Who can say, “I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin”? — Proverbs 20:9
▼ Washing your hands with soap kills germs. But many people have little or no soap. Shawn Seipler learned that millions of used bars of soap from hotels around the world are thrown away every day. So he TEACHING TIP started a company to collect all that used soap. It has delivered 25 million new bars of soap to 99 countries. Workers teach people that using soap can help keep them well.
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6GB15p0102-3132-Section-1.indd 31 6/4/15 3:24 PM What will make the butterfl y wings match? Do you need to draw lines? Make dot shapes? Fill in colors? Think Make all the butterfl ies match.
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Ride and shoot.
The horse gallops down a track. Its rider pulls back his bowstring. “In-yo, in-yo,” he
to the target. cries. The arrow �lies Did it hit the mark?
I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God. — Isaiah 45:5 Yabusame (ya-boo-sah-MIH) is Japanese horse archery. It was started ▼ over 900 years ago. The warriors wanted to please their gods. The archer steers his horse with his knees. He holds the bow in one hand and pulls
TIP out an arrow with the other. He aims and shoots at a target—all while he 1 is galloping by. He does this three times. His shout means “darkness and light.” The warrior believes that the gods will bless him if he hits all three God’s Big WORLD • July/August 2015 God’s Big WORLD • July/August 2015 targets. But you know that there are no gods besides God. AP Photo
6GB15p0304-2930-Section-2.indd 3 6/4/15 3:38 PM The air The pilot’s seat lifts them.
Gliders look like little planes. But they have no motors. They are held up by the wind. They look like they are You yourselves have seen how �loating! I bore you on eagles’ Gliders are long. wings and brought you to myself. — Exodus 19:4
About 24 pilots from four countries brought their gliders to Athens, ▼ Tennessee, in windy April. They came to see who could stay in the air the longest and who could fl y the highest. The contest lasted two TIP weeks. Some days it rained so the gliders could not fl y. It was too A plane tows the glider windy on some other days. But the pilots worked together on good 2 weather days. Their gliders fl oated on the air. They had lots of fun. into the sky. July/August 2015 • God’s Big WORLD
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6GB15p0304-2930-Section-2.indd 4 6/3/15 4:48 PM What a big model!
No one has ever seen this elephant. But people made a model of one. How can they do that?
With God are wisdom and might. — Job 12:13
▼ No straight-tusked elephants are living
on the Earth now. But people have found the elephant’s bones in the ground. Artists in Germany studied those bones. They made bones like them. Then they added “muscles” to the bones. And they covered everything with elephant-like skin. Lastly, they added the straight tusks. Does the model look real to you? TEACHING TIP 3 God’s Big WORLD • July/August 2015
6GB15p0304-2930-Section-2.indd 29 6/3/15 4:49 PM Gliders made by people are on page 2. These are gliders made by God. Which outlines match the raptor photos? Write the matching letters in Think the boxes. Mark an X on each shape using the matching color.
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6GB15p0304-2930-Section-2.indd 30 6/3/15 5:12 PM Hubble is 25!
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�loats out in space. It takes pictures of stars.
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God seals up the stars and stretched out the heavens—marvelous things beyond number. — Job 9: 8-10
▼ The Hubble Space Telescope (above) just turned 25 years old. It is 350 miles above us. It has circled Earth 137,000 times. And it has taken photos—over one million of them— of stars and galaxies that we cannot see. Scientists think Hubble will keep working until 2020. They plan to have a new telescope in
TEACHING TIP space by then.
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6GB15p0506-2728-Section-3.indd 5 6/3/15 5:00 PM Remember the former things of old. — Isaiah 46:9
It is a new, old ship.
People long ago fought a war to make our country free. A ship from France helped in that war. A new ship has been built. It is just like the old one. It sailed to America too.
The ship Hermoine (air-mee-OH-nee) helped America to win the Revolutionary War. The Marquis de Lafayette sailed on the ship ▼ from France 235 years ago. He brought money and supplies to help the American fi ghters. Now an exact copy (replica) of the ship has been built. The new, old ship sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States this spring. Did you see it? TIP
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6GB15p0506-2728-Section-3.indd 6 6/3/15 5:00 PM Dogs and cats show off.
Tank is a bulldog. He’s all sniff and drool. He likes snow�lakes, And turtle babies too.
This cat is named Gaya. Such big ears and green eyes! What is she thinking? You satisfy the desire of every living thing. Will she win — Psalm 145:16 a prize?
Bulldog Tank won this year’s ▼ Beautiful Bulldog contest at Drake University in Iowa. He became the mascot for an outdoor track meet there. He likes to eat snow and to watch his owner’s pet turtles. Gaya was one of about 250 cats at a cat show in Romania. She is a Devon Rex. All cats like her TEACHING TIP have wrinkled foreheads, big ears, and green eyes.
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6GB15p0506-2728-Section-3.indd 28 6/3/15 5:01 PM G1p7822-eto-.nd7 6GB15p0708-2526-Section-4.indd AP Photo:Walker Ashley(top) God madethewind. TEACHING TIP ▼ Grownups willteach you spinning tubeofair. Thatisatornado. Strong wind,clouds,andrain canmake abig until itissafe. not openwindows.Andstayindoors no windowsonthelowestfl go tothebasementora warnings. Ifa to watchtheskyandlistenfor where tornadoeshappenknow United States.Peopleinstates form betweenMayandJulyinthe of theyear. Butmosttornadoes Tornadoes canhappenatanytime tornadoisinyourarea, room with oor. Do
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//53:49 PM 6/4/15 Friends help one another.
Two friends in China work together. Mr. H. cannot see. Mr. W. has no arms. But they have planted thousands of trees.
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. — Ecclesiastes 4:9
The two men have been friends ▼ ▼ since they were boys. One lost his eyesight and the other his arms in accidents. The blind man climbs trees and takes cuttings for planting. The armless man digs holes and carries water with his feet. Together they are making a dry spot green. TEACHING TIP
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6GB15p0708-2526-Section-4.indd 25 6/4/15 3:50 PM Draw lines to match the geckos that have the Think same markings. How many pairs are there?
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//54:39 PM 6/3/15 1 These goats have long, It is a matted hair. But what is goat hiding under that mess? surprise. It is soft hair! People clean and spin it. The yarn makes fi ne clothes.
All the women whose hearts stirred them to use their skill spun the goat’s hair. — Exodus 35:26
TEACHING TIP ▼ Certain goats in Afghanistan shed the thick hair next to their skin in the spring. Farmers used to burn that hair. Now they have learned that they can clean, wash, and spin it. Then they have some of the fi nest cashmere yarn in the world! Selling it helps the poor farmers to care for their families.
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6GB15p0910-2324-Section-5.indd 10 6/3/15 4:40 PM G1p9022-eto-.nd23 6GB15p0910-2324-Section-5.indd AP Time todivein! Squishy, splashy, Cover yourskin. Feel thecoolmuck And justletgo! Then sliporslide Add yourbigtoe. Start withastick. Photos TEACHING TIP ▼ What fun! in themud.Whata games orjustslipandslide of theircountriestoplay choose onedayineach People allovertheworld outdoors byplayinginmud. grownups) toenjoythe wanted youngchildren (and International MudDay. They two teachersstarted Eleven yearsago,
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So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fi sh, 153 of them. — John 21:11
It is not like the others.
Fish bodies are cold in cold A NOAA biologist holds an opah caught off ▼ ▼ water. They are warm in the California coast. Animals are either cold- blooded or warm-blooded. Warm-blooded warm water. animal bodies stay the same temperature all of the time. We always thought all fi sh were cold-blooded. They change temperature depending on the temperature of the water. Now scientists have learned that moonfi sh Even in very cold water. (“opah”) are able to make heat as they swim. Their bodies stay nearly nine degrees
But moon�ish are always warm. TEACHING TIP warmer than that icy water!
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John8:12 TEACHING TIP ▼ idea soonbecomea his few otherscouldstaylitallnight.Will that theEmpire State Buildinganda midnight ifnooneisinside.Heagrees should havethelightsturnedoff member believesalltallbuildings and sparkleatnight.Buta it. Andtheyloveallthebrightlights People wholiveinNewYork Citylove law? citycouncil after
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Young bear had to leave his mama. Where would he go? He climbed a tree in someone’s yard. Is that a good place for a little bear?
There is a bear in the tree!
The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together. — Isaiah 11:7
This young bear wandered into a ▼ yard in Marksville, Louisiana. He was scared. So he climbed a tree and made a nest. Children and a dog live in the house. It is not safe for a bear to live there. A game warden came. She caught him in a cage. She gave him an ear tag and a collar. She will be able to tell when young bear fi nds his forever home. TEACHING TIP
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6GB15p1112-2122-Section-6.indd 21 6/5/15 1:14 PM Find all the hidden letters. Trace the gray letters as you nd each. Think
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6GB15p1112-2122-Section-6.indd 22 6/8/15 8:16 PM Dolls are not for this.
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Some people in Japan had a fair. They got used dolls. Then they prayed to the dolls. They think the dolls kept children safe and well.
▼ Many people in Japan do not worship God. They worship things—rocks, trees, or animals, for example. One day in May is set aside as a “Festival of Repayment of Kindness,” TIP or “Doll’s Day.” People collect dolls children have had. They pray to the dolls. They thank the dolls for protecting their young owners. Then they burn the dolls. Pray for Christians to tell the Japanese about Jesus.
It is the Lord your God you shall fear. You shall not go after other gods. — Deuteronomy 6:13-14
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6GB15p1314-1920-Section-7.indd 13 6/4/15 4:02 PM They can dive.
I know all the birds Gannet birds are big of the hills. — Psalm 50:11 and noisy. Do you see their blue eyes? They fl y high. Then they dive deep. Up they come with fi sh!
Lambert’s Bay Bird Island is in ▼ South Africa. It is one of only six spots in the world where Cape gannet birds come to have their babies. The birds look something like swans but they have loud, shrieking calls. They also soar up into the air and then dive at 60 miles per hour straight down into the water to catch sardines. TEACHING TIP
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TIP ▼ more andmore. are stilluncoveringsoldiers.There are over8,000 sofar. tomb. Thesoldiersallstandatattention. Eachonelooksdifferent. Manyholdweapons. There are evenbronze chariots.Archeologists underground. China’s fi Two Chinesefarmersmadeanunbelievablediscoveryabout 40yearsago.Theyfoundclay(calledterracotta)soldiersburied rst emperor, Quin(chin),wantedtobeprotected afterhedied.Hehadthestatuesmadeandplaced around his nding God’s BigWORLD potter treads clay. He shalltrample on rulersas — Isaiah41:25 mortar, asthe
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6/4/15 4:04PM 3 Jesters are juggling. Which of the letters will nish the word Think below each jester? Write it in the box. Circle the capital letters.
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6GB15p1314-1920-Section-7.indd 20 6/4/15 4:05 PM Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane? — Job 39:19 S O ES N L 8
Horses do the hard work.
Horses come to the island in spring. Up and down hills they go. They pull people in carts. They work hard all summer.
Mackinac Island is in Michigan. Many people visit there ▼ each summer. There is a rule that no cars are allowed on the island. Every spring about 500 horses are brought
TIP from mainland farms to the island. They pull guests in carriages, food in carts, and trash in wagons. Then they Horses pull a return to their farms for winter. UPS delivery cart.
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6GB15p1516-1718-Sec-8.indd 15 6/5/15 1:19 PM Cooks have used it for a long time. Yellow, green, red, and blue bowls. Does Grandma still have some? They are made of Pyrex glass. It is 100 years old.
Whatever your hand fi nds to do, do it with your might. — Ecclesiastes 9:10
In the photo, the celebration included the world’s largest Pyrex measuring cup. The Corning Glass Works makes ▼
Pyrex glass. Its cookware will not break in a hot oven. And cooks have been using it for 100 years. The company fi rst made clear glass pie and baking dishes. Then came clear measuring cups with red markings (does your mom have 2 TIP one?) and colored bowls. Corning made the world’s largest measuring cup to celebrate Pyrex’s 100th birthday. July/August 2015 • God’s Big WORLD
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6GB15p1516-1718-Sec-8.indd 16 6/5/15 1:20 PM It is bigger than a bike.
Electric tuk-tuks are coming to Denver.
People can make all kinds of things in this world because Call it a bajay. God made us to be like Him. Read Call it a posy. Genesis 1:27. This little trike Could make life rosy. It has a motor. It’s not a truck. Soon you might ride A rickshaw tuk-tuk.
In the photo, taxi drivers wait for riders in Bangkok, Thailand. The motorized rickshaws with three wheels move people from one place ▼ ▼ to another in busy cities around the world. They have many different names. But “tuk-tuk” is the most popular. Now a company wants to run tuk-tuks in downtown Denver, Colorado. The little trikes have electric motors and will not make a “tuk-tuk” sound. TIP 3 God’s Big WORLD • July/August 2015 AP Photos
6GB15p1516-1718-Sec-8.indd 27 6/5/15 1:53 PM Dinner looks the same in both pictures. It is soup, spaghetti with meatballs, bread, and co ee. But the pictures have 13 di erences. Think Can you nd them all?
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