We had so much fun making ice-cream in class today! 🍨
Everybody (except one – and he didn’t have salt) had great success!
Judging by all the eating going on, I think the ice cream tasted good, but, I did see at least one person get brain freeze!
Congratulations everybody!
Here’s how to make the ice cream and the snowflakes.
Optical Illusions
Click below to see some great optical illusions from Science Bob
In October 2020, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to The World Food Program.
Freerice
is a fun and educational trivia game that lets you make a difference and get smarter — just by playing. With dozens of categories — from English vocabulary to famous paintings — you can quiz yourself on your favourite subject, and support the World Food Programme at the same time.
As you play Freerice and answer questions correctly, you trigger a financial payment, equivalent to 10 grains of rice, to the World Food Programme (WFP) to support its work saving and changing lives around the world.
You may like to build a maze in an old shoe box for your plant. Watch how it grows towards the light!
Recently, I posted a video that one of our Volunteers, Bruce, took of some carpenter ants making a nest in an old piece of Fir (see below.)
Then I found a video about Carpenter Bee nests. What was particularly fascinating about their nests is that they are very similar to Mason Bee nests, some of which we maintain in the Canuck Place garden in Vancouver. When I have access to all my materials again, I’m currently working from home, I’ll post about our Mason Bees!
Unfortunately the video about Carpenter Bee nests cannot be played anywhere other than YouTube. You can search it by it’s title:
Carpenter Bee Tunnel and Development by Peter
Above is a video Bruce took of some carpenter ants making a nest in an old piece of Fir.
Bruce, often leaves interesting objects in the classroom for me to share with the children; mostly things he’s found in the garden! Lucky for us, Bruce is still sharing things with us even during this time of social distancing!
Carpenter Ants make nests in wood by chewing sandpaper-smooth tunnels and chambers in wood. They cannot eat the wood. The wood is discarded as shredded fragments of coarse sawdust ejected from the nests. The sawdust may contain dead ants and bits of dead insects that the carpenter ants have eaten.
If you’ve seen a “big, black ant” outside your house, it was probably a carpenter ant. Carpenter ants serve a useful purpose in nature. Their nests consist of tunnels and chambers chewed into soft wood. The openings and hollow spaces they create contribute to the natural decay of stumps, logs and dead limbs. Without recyclers such as carpenter ants we would be up to our necks in dead, un-decomposed organic matter in the landscape and woodlands.
Approximately 31 mins. For younger children.
Small Number is a young boy who gets into a lot of mischief. With his sister Perfect Number he visits their Grandma who lives in a small village on their Nation’s traditional territory.
To promote mathematics among Aboriginal learners a group led by Veselin Jungic of The IRMACS Centre at SFU has created a series of stories with mathematical themes. These stories are based on the storytelling tradition of Aboriginal peoples.
All of the stories have been translated into several Aboriginal languages, including Blackfoot, Cree, Halq’em ́eylem, Heiltsuk, Hul’q’umi’num’, Huu-ay- aht, Nisga’a, Sliammon, and Squamish languages.
All of the stories can be found at http://mathcatcher.irmacs.sfu.ca/stories and on YouTube on ‘The IRMACS Centre’ channel
The first story, Small Number Counts to 100 was inspired by narration from Ms. Rina Sinclair of the Siksika Nation.
Small Number is a young boy who gets into a lot of mischief. He lives in a small village by the water with his mother and father. It is a crisp autumn day and Small Number is helping his father to prepare the nets for tomorrow’s salmon harvest. “There is a school of salmon by Straight Line Beach. We need to set our net in the morning while the tide is still high,” says Small Number’s father...
To promote mathematics among Aboriginal learners a group led by Veselin Jungic of The IRMACS Centre at SFU has created a series of stories with mathematical themes. These stories are based on the storytelling tradition of Aboriginal peoples.
All of the stories have been translated into several Aboriginal languages, including Blackfoot, Cree, Halq’em ́eylem, Heiltsuk, Hul’q’umi’num’, Huu-ay- aht, Nisga’a, Sliammon, and Squamish languages.
All of the stories can be found at http://mathcatcher.irmacs.sfu.ca/stories and on YouTube on ‘The IRMACS Centre’ channel
The first story, Small Number Counts to 100 was inspired by narration from Ms. Rina Sinclair of the Siksika Nation.
