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Owl Moon |
Jane
Yolen |
2-4 grade |
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| Summary of the story : |
 The story
deals with a father that takes his daughter owling for the
first time on a cold winter's night. Along their way, they
encounter a Great
Horned Owl. It is a coming of age story of a
young girl with her father.
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| Possible Design Challenges: |
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And
the moon was so bright… What makes the moon bright?
Could we design something to predict the moon
brightness? Is it bright all the time?
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Our
feet crunched over the crisp snow … Could we design a
shoe that would not make noise on the snow?
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Pa
made a long shadow, but mine was short and round. …
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Then
he called: Whoo-whoo-who-who-who-whoooooo …Design an
instrument that can make this sound.. What causes sound?
Experiment with
instruments that make sound
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I
could feel the cold, as if someone’s icy hand was
palm-down on my back…
Design
a better way to save the heat of your body. Design a
garment to cover your neck.
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| Comments: |
| Designing a garment to save body heat
is a great way to use a thermal probe and plot the change in
temperature without a garment and with a garment. Its
great because you can show how one group's design functions
differently than another. It also gives a little competition
between the groups when the plots are displayed. In
addition one teachers math around graphs such as slope and
plotting. |
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