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Computer Bug has a Coloring Book for you.

Computer Bug's Coloring Book has both:

• A buddy's on-line version and
• A version you can print and color by hand.

The printable Computer Bug's Coloring Book (from an "bug's-eye view," of course) has 14 pages. You can get the whole book at once or, and my suggestion would be, pull the pages in one-by-one (about 50 KB - 150 KB per page). Either way, please set your printer to print in a "landscape" mode for each image.

The complete Computer Bug's Coloring Book is intended to be printed in a "landscape" mode from html format (download time on a 28.8 modem is about 8 minutes).

If you would rather look at or print one page at a time, the following is for you:

• Cover Page Energy Activities with Computer Bug - A Coloring Book
• Cover Page #2 Meet Computer Bug.
This little friend has been created to tell kids about energy and how to use it wisely.
• Page 1 What is Energy? It's the power to make things move.
• Page 2 We mostly depend on fossil fuels - like coal, natural gas, and oil - to run our machines.
  Did dinosaurs fossils get turned into fossil fuels? No!
• Page 3 Today, we use electricity and natural gas to heat our homes and to cook our meals.
• Page 4 Do you know that coal has been used as a source of heat for thousands of years?
• Page 5 Also, coal has been used as a fuel for steam engines.
• Page 6 We can use natural gas to make electricity, too.
• Page 7 The first oil well in the United States was drilled more than 100 years ago.
• Page 8 Today, oil is pumped from underground oil-filled rock & sent to a refinery where it is made into gasoline.
• Page 9 Most crude oil is imported. Most crude oil is made into gasoline.
• Page 10 Because we use so much energy, scientists are working on ways to make electricity.

One way uses uranium to make nuclear power.
Another way uses hydrogen gas.

• Page 11 Another kind of energy is renewable.
  We are learning to use energy from the sun.
• Page 12 Computer Bug looks out for our energy. You can too.
Remember to: "Turn out the lights. Turn out the lights."

Landscape Printing: When you print these pages, please remember to print them from your Adobe Reader in a "landscape" mode (That is, first go to File, Page Setup, select "Landscape", and click on OK. Then go to File, Print, and click on OK).

If you do not have the Adobe Reader, you may download it for free by clicking here.