For my musher to follow during the Iditarod, I chose Anna Berrington. She has a twin.  She has never won the Iditarod.  I chose her because I think she will be an awesome musher.

 

Meeting a real musher was fantastic!  I really liked how Mrs. Guertin let us touch the fur that was in the bag.  I loved getting to pet the dogs.

I bite.

I growl.

I chase and track my prey.

Wherever I go, I dash through the wind.

Wherever I am, I blend with the snow.

I always catch my prey.

I am an arctic fox chasing my prey.

 

I chose this quote from my book to make you want to read my book.

“He grabbed the giraffe and stretched its neck and put a hole in the whale’s head so it will come to the surface to breathe, and the children will see it.”

Ice Cube Keeper Engineering Challenge

Ask: Will foam keep the ice cube from melting?

Next, we imagined what our ice cube keeper would look like, planned, and created it.

I predict that my ice cube will stay frozen 5 hours.

My table:

Time:	Measurement:	Observations:
9:27	4 cm.	It is solid.
10:10	4 cm.	It is starting to get wet.
12:10	4 cm.	Really wet.
1:30	3 cm.	Soft
2:35	1 cm.	Tiny
3:00	Gone, gone, gone

 

I might try this to keep my ice cube from melting as soon as it did. My reflections: Some of the things I observed that worked well for keeping heat out are no holes to let the heat in. It mattered how big and insulated it was so it kept the cold in. Foam keeps cold in. A small opening worked well so not much cold would get out. The metal things like discs didn’t work well. If I wanted to improve my design, I might try to put snow in to keep the ice cube colder. I could try putting the block of foam back farther. I could make a smaller opening. I could cover more holes so the warm would not go in as fast as it did.

exploding ashes

hot exhausting volcano

hot radiation

flowing

gliding

flying

standing

walking

eating

shaking

munching

looking

searching

finding

sitting

running

sprinting

exploding

bursting

overflowing

going

snoozing

Ripped presents open

Sped through the snow with my new sled

Ripped my present box into pieces

Zipped though the roller skating rink

Roller bladed with Ella

Played with Shadow

Went sledding

I predicted that slow things had more energy.  When we stacked the cups up, we found the ball and all the cups fell down, but we decided it must be for another reason because we discovered that fast things have more energy.

 

Sewing helps our students grow in a number of the Next Generation Science Standards. Here is one example. 3-5-ETS1-2. “Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.” Thank you, Mrs. Shedd, for providing this amazing STEM opportunity. We love it here!