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Bill Grosser-2021. Adapted from John Lewis “Counting Counts” YesMoment1@yahoo.com

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Table of Contents

Date

Entry/Presenter

Page Number

09/14/2021

Blast-Off. Louise Huffman

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09/16/2021

Curriculum and Measurement Bill Grosser

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Developing Long-Time Investigation Questions

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Bill,

I don't have a lot of data on the Lone star ticks.  That is because they don't overwinter here in Wisconsin so no one bothered to keep records of them.  

Susan Paskewitz

Department of Entomology

1630 Linden Drive

University of Wisconsin

608-262-1269

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Mass of

Wedding Ring

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How many atoms is that?

9 trillion atoms per day

40 billion atoms per hour

100 million atoms per second

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When will the ring be completely gone?

16,192 years from now!

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“We must count things now…

…for reasons we don’t yet know.”

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Tides

Sea Level Rise

“We must count things now…

…for reasons we don’t yet know.”

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“We must count things now…

…for reasons we don’t yet know.”

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Wheel of Inquiry-

Long Time Investigations

Daily

Yearly

Monthly

Weekly

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Wheel of Inquiry-

Long Time Investigations

How does the . . .

depth of snow change

How does the . . .

density of snow change

How does the . . .

length of shadow change

Daily

Yearly

Monthly

Weekly

How does the . . .

Solar energy change

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Wheel of Inquiry-

Long Time Investigations

How does the . . .

density of snow change

Daily

Yearly

Monthly

Weekly

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Choosing and Designing Curriculum

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Calculate Snow Density

Objective

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Snow Density Activity

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Objective: Calculate Density

Investigation

Engineering

Design Challenge

Snow

IBSE

Long-Time

Investigation

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Objective: Calculate Snow Density

Investigation

How does the snow density change if I measure samples at different depths in a snow pit?

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Objective: Calculate Snow Density

How does the snow density change if I measure samples at the beginning of each week during the school year?

Long-Time

Investigation

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Objective: Calculate Snow Density

Engineering

Design Challenge

Design, build and test a snow density sampling device that can measure a larger sample.

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Snow Density

Infomercial

Design, build and test a snow density sampling device that can measure a larger sample.

Explore snow density measurement, introduce engineering challenge, iterations, prepare movie of infomercial.

Show infomercial of…

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Table of Contents

Date

Entry/Presenter

Page Number

09/14/2021

Blast-Off. Louise Huffman

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09/16/2021

Curriculum and Measurement Bill Grosser

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