Activity 1: Narrate the Story
- After reading or listening to the story, narrate the story events aloud using your own words.
Activity 2: Test the Story
- Recreate Franklin's black cloth and white cloth experiment.
- If snow is unavailable, use ice cubes or other frozen items in the place of snow.
- On a sunny day, place two ice cubes outside directly in the sunlight.
- Place a black cloth over one ice cube and a white cloth over the other.
- Make a hypothesis and guess which ice cube will melt fastest.
- Check the ice every few minutes.
- Was your hypothesis correct? Which ice cube melts fastest and why?
Activity 3: Color the Story
- Click the crayon above, and complete page 14 of 'History Coloring Pages for First Grade.'