We really enjoyed our time at the Glenbow Museum and learned a lot about the Inuit people from our guide, Sheldon. We learned ….
Thanks Sheldon and the Gelnbow Museum for a wonderful day!
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Tuesday, January 17th was Kid Inventor Day. Also know as the “Best Day Ever”. We imagined we were explorers traveling to the Arctic. We thought about different challenges we would face there and created inventions to help fix them. One thing that we felt would be a challenge was finding food and someone designed a trap to catch animals that we could eat. An avalanche was another problem we were concerned about because there is so much snow in the arctic. One solution was building a big wall to the stop the snow. This wall was built on wheels so that it could be moved where it was needed. Other problems we felt we would face were traveling in deep snow, creating shelters, talking to people who speak a different language and many more. It must not be easy to live up North but it was a lot of fun inventing things to help! There were so many amazing inventions and it was really neat to see what other people invented. We also got popsicles!
This week we also started to make a plot graph of the actual temperature of Calgary and Iqaluit. Every morning around snack time, we look at the Weather Network and see the actual temperature, the feels like temperature, the time of sunrise and the time od the sunset. On Friday, it was -3 Degrees Celsius in Calgary and -32 Degrees Celsius in Iqaluit. We were very happy to be in Calgary! We are so excited to see what happens next week....
We’ve experimented with different things that are hot and cold. Each table had 8 cups with letters on them and there was different stuff inside each cup. For example, hot chocolate, cold water, snow, ketchup, rice, hot water, oatmeal, and ice. We were feeling them to see if they were cold or hot and we had to find a way to describe how hot or how cold to an alien. Some of our ideas included numbers, words, degrees, and percentages. During Exploration, we’ve also been trying to make domes out of newspaper, Kapla, magnets, cups and straws. We can bring in other materials from home that we can maybe build a dome out of. We also might try making domes with toothpicks and marshmallows, sugar cubes, foam, and recycled materials. We also might try going outside and building domes with snow and ice (igloos) if the weather is nice enough. We have been exploring with maps and looking at different types of globes and maps. We’ve been trying to figure out how big different cities are, and how small they are. Lots of students have brought in maps from home too! The first day once we had maps we saw how far away our Mom and Dad’s were born and how far away we were born. The globes spin around so you can see every island. The maps have inspired many of us to also draw our own maps too! We’ve also started a book in the class called “The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide”. We compared it to different types of Field Guides such as Field Guides about Rocks, Birds, and Animals. Field Guides are about something specific.
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