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Lighthouses for Kids: History, Science, and Lore with 21 Activities

Lighthouses

for

Kid S

History, Science,

and Lore with

21 Activities

K ATHERINE L . H OUSE

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Lighthouses for Kid S

History, Science, and Lore

with 21 Activities

K ATHERINE L . H OUSE

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

House, Katherine L.

Lighthouses for kids: history, science, and lore with 21 activities /

Katherine L. House. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-1-55652-720-3

ISBN-10: 1-55652-720-9

1. Lighthouses—Juvenile literature. I. Title.

VK1013.H68 2008

387.1’55—dc22

2007027093

For Jim, Jonathan, and Caroline.

I couldn’t have done it without them.

“I’d Like to Be a Lighthouse” © 1926 by Doubleday, a division of Random

House, Inc., from Taxis and Toadstools by Rachel Field. Used by permission of

Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

Cover and interior design: Rattray Design

Cover photos: Kid in front of lighthouse © Donald Nausbaum; all other

images, iStock.com

© 2008 by Katherine L. House

All rights reserved

First edition

Published by Chicago Review Press, Incorporated

814 North Franklin Street

Chicago, Illinois 60610

ISBN 978-1-55652-720-3

Printed in the United States of America

54321

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Contents

Note to Readers iv

Acknowledgments v

Time Line vi

Introduction ix

3 • A Field Guide to U.S. Lighthouses 31

Build a Lighthouse Model That

Lights Up 33

Create a Sponge Painting 44

6 • Keep the Lights Burning! 69

The Job of the Keeper

Tend an Oil Lamp 71

Make and Test Your Own Brass Polish 81

Create a Lighthouse Logbook 83

Make a Replica Keeper’s Cap 85

1 • Growing Up at a Lighthouse 1

True Stories of Keepers’ Kids

4 • Amazing Construction Stories 45

Does Water Pressure Change with

Depth? 47

7 • Lighthouses Today 89

Write a Lighthouse Poem 92

Witness the Power of Hydraulics 94

Decorate a Seashell Picture Frame 3

Keeping a Garden: Was It Possible? 5

Tie a Bowline Knot 10

Make a Lighthouse Wind Sock 12

5 • The Science Behind Lighthouses 55

Make a Solar Marshmallow Roaster 57

How Does the Liquid Flow? 59

Bend Light with a Prism 61

Investigate How Lighthouses Flashed

Long Ago 62

Discover the Benefits of Ball Bearings 64

Beyond Ball Bearings: Floating

Heavy Lens 65

2 • Why Lighthouses? 19

A Short History

Resources 99

Web Sites to Explore 99

Organizations 101

Places to Visit 102

Glossary 113

Selected Bibliography 115

Index 118

Why Height Matters 26

Decorate a Lighthouse Cake 29

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