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Pip wanted a blue lantern shade for the picnic table. Ada preferred pale yellow. Maya thought blue would make the brightest light because the color looked so bold on paper.
The baker offered them a battery lantern and several safe paper shades to test at the kitchen table. They kept the paper away from anything hot.
First, Maya tried the blue shade near the window. Then she tried the yellow shade after someone had closed the curtain. The yellow looked brighter, but she was not sure why.
“We changed two things,” Ada noticed. “The shade and the light from the window.”
They opened the curtain to the same position and placed the lantern on a chalk mark. Each shade went over the same lantern in the same spot. Pip held his book at the same distance and checked whether he could read its letters.
The pale yellow shade let more light through than the thick blue one. Maya wrote what they had actually tested, rather than deciding that every yellow paper must always be brighter than every blue paper.
For the picnic, they chose yellow near the books and used blue paper for decorations elsewhere.
Comet curled beneath the table while they tidied up. Their experiment had made the evening gentler: enough light to read, soft colors to enjoy, and a question answered one careful change at a time.
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Why was Maya’s first comparison unclear?
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A little question to share.
What could you keep the same when comparing two ideas?
