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2/16/2021

Story Time with Beth and Curtis!

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Join us for some awesome stories!

We are a bit sad that our work in Borneo is done but you can continue the adventure with a pair of books about Borneo!  We also heard from many of you that Go2Science has been the hook to lure your students into your remote classrooms during COVID 19 school closures.  Curtis and I found some books in Borneo we thought your students would enjoy .  So we've created some virtual read-aloud sessions for you to share with students and keep them engaged for a few more weeks of distance learning.  Enjoy!
The Wild Treehouse of Borneo is about a boy named Toobi who helps some animals in his own backyard.  What animals live in your backyard and how can you protect or create habitat for them?

Safe Link: bit.ly/WildTreehouse
I Belong to the Forest chronicles the life of a sun bear that was taken from the forest to be a pet. Wild animals belong in the wild! What do you think will happen to this sun bear?
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Safe Link: bit.ly/BelongToForest
We are THRILLED that the folks at The Innovation Press granted permission for us to share one of their beautiful books with you as a virtual read aloud!  FUNGUS IS AMONG US! is a great tie in to our recent Biodiversity mission in Borneo.  I love that it spotlights a real mycologist, Dr. Sara Branco!  (Yes, I followed her on twitter!)
FUNGUS IS AMONG US! is an informative and whimsical look at the fabulous world of fungi! A delightful rhyming story is coupled with cool facts.  It ends with a Q & A section with a mycologist, Dr. Sara Branco!

Safe Link: bit.ly/FungusStory

If you joined us for the Kenyan Groundwater mission, this story is for you!  The main character is from Sudan, but her plight is very similar to the water challenges they had at HIP Academy.
Nya's Long Walk is about a girl named Nya who lives in Sudan.  Her village has trouble with water.  It reminded us of our good friends in Kenya!

Safe Link: bit.ly/NyasLongWalk

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2/11/2021

Mission: Penguins? Livestream Archives

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​Need to share livestream archives with students?

This is the place!  At the end of each livestream day, we'll select one session to archive and post it on our archive page AND post safe links here.

If your students are working remotely and you need to share our livestream archives with them, simply grab the link and share it through your learning management platform.  Each bit.ly link takes students to a video.link (formerly Safe YouTube) version of the archive. This version eliminates related content and other possible distractions.  If you need an alternate format, please drop us a line at Curious@Go2Science.com ​and we'll do our best to accommodate!  
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Day 1 Livestream
Beth and Curtis kick off the winter mission.  Join them in mobile head quarters for a motion break, vocabulary building, and lots of awesome student questions!
Safe Link: bit.ly/PenguinLIVE01
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Day 2 Livestream
Join Beth and Curtis in Mobile HQ for a rather soggy motion break! Plus there's a word breakdown, new field video, and lots of awesome student questions!
​Safe Link: bit.ly/PenguinLIVE02
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Day 3 Livestream
Join Curtis and Beth in mobile headquarters as they talk about the latest field video! Learn about Darwin's Finches, sea lions, and more. There are lots of interesting student questions and some great thinking about the evidence! As always, there is a motion break and word break down.
Safe Link: bit.ly/PenguinLIVE03
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Day 4 Livestream
Curtis and Beth are back in mobile headquarters to answer your questions, learn new words, get the wiggles out AND learn about the most powerful tool ever invented!  There is lots of fun, motion, and learning.
Safe Link: bit.ly/PenguinLIVE04
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Day 5 Livestream
Beth and Curtis are back to answer student questions!  Beth compares Curtis to the sea lion they found sleeping on a bench.  They talk about estimation and have a silly swim!
Safe Link: bit.ly/PenguinLIVE05
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Day 6 Livestream
We are already halfway through our mission!  Celebrate with a special motion break!!!  Of course, there are still questions, exciting new words, and a field video!  Join in on the active learning and fun!
Safe Link: bit.ly/PenguinLIVE06
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Day 7 Livestream
Beth and Curtis answer questions about their explorations at Kicker Rock, including a sighting of a beautiful Galapagos shark.  Tune in to learn a bit about neural buoyancy too!
Safe Link: bit.ly/PenguinLIVE07
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Day 8 Livestream
Curtis and Beth are back in Mobile HQ to answer lots of student questions about Blue-footed Boobies!  They are such interesting birds.
Safe Link: bit.ly/PenguinLIVE08
BONUS read aloud: bit.ly/FUNGUSbook
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Day 9 Livestream
Beth and Curtis have lots of fun answering thoughtful student questions, taking a fun motion break, deconstructing a word into phonemes, and looking at a very interesting skull!
​Safe Link: bit.ly/PenguinLive09
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Day 10 Livestream
Curtis and Beth have talk about lava and a very unusual forest.  They also share their very rough ride to a new island with an active motion break.  Join the fun!

Safe Link: bit.ly/PenguinLIVE10
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Day 11 Livestream
Join Beth and Curtis in mobile HQ to learn about how animals rafted to the Galapagos islands long ago AND to hear about the unusual way frigatebirds sometimes get a meal!  There is a motion break and student questions too!
Safe Link: bit.ly/PenguinLIVE11
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Day 12 Livestream
Safe Link: bit.ly/PenguinLIVE12

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2/4/2021

Mission: Penguin? Comic Tips

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Fun Suggestions for Building Literacy Skills!

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Each week we'll share helpful hints on using the comic across the grade level span.  I'll add each week's tips here so they are easy to find.  If you are new to the comic, be sure to share the backstory of the characters with your students.  You can read that at the top of the comic page or click here to read the backstory and get a pdf version to share with parents!

If you need to share comic videos directly with students you can use these safe video links to do so:
  • Backstory: bit.ly/ComicBackstory
  • Week 1: bit.ly/PenguinComic_1
  • Week 2: bit.ly/PenguinComic_2
  • Week 3: bit.ly/PenguinComic_3
  • Week 4: bit.ly/PenguinComic_4
  • Week 5: bit.ly/PenguinComic_5
  • Week 6: bit.ly/PenguinComic_6

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Week 1
This week's tips work across the grade level span and give you a bit of info about general use of the comics to support literacy.  
Build Prior Knowledge  When used along with the other mission materials, your students will already have some prior knowledge to support comprehension. It is also helpful to ask students what they already know about things like cats and dogs, real and imaginary, or for Week 1, volcanoes and whales to build a web of understanding that can help them understand new ideas.
One document, multiple levels!  Each comic episode supports pre-readers to upper level second grade readers.  The graphic format encourages all readers to stretch their abilities by tackling juicy words and big concepts!  
  • Pre-readers can read the pictures to tell the story.
  • Typical kindergarten readers can work to sound out the sound effects.  It's way more fun than reading lists of nonsense words!
  • First graders are likely to find success reading speech and thought bubbles.
  • The text boxes at the bottom of the comic will give most second graders something to chew on!

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Week 2
Pre K:  Pre-readers can build skills as they "read the pictures"  of the comic.  Encourage students to use dramatic story language and sound effects.  Print the little book format and support children as needed to find the front cover and turn pages one at a time.
Kindergarten:  Focus on those tricky short vowel sounds using the sound effects this week!  Change the short vowel sounds in these words to create your own sound effects! 
a: lap
i: pip, hiss
o: pop, blop, zop
u: zup
Download, print, and assemble our sound substitution mini flip chart for more fun!
First Grade:  This is the time of year when some children start to zoom ahead in reading while others are taking their time with early reader books as they build a strong foundation at their own pace.  Try using the comic for a readers theater!  Those zoomers can read the text boxes, your foundation builders can do sound effect, kiddos in the middle can read the speech bubbles and EVERYONE can feel successful as they work on fluency and phrasing!
Second Grade:  You may notice we've snuck a few tricky words into the text boxes.  Your students can begin to integrate their use of context cues to puzzle out some of that richer vocabulary!  This is also a great way for those clever advancing readers to begin to work on making inferences!  Why does Data Dog need to be careful?  Why is there a smell of rotten eggs?  ​

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Week 3

Pre K
:  Young children can benefit from reading expressions.  Noticing the feelings conveyed in the illustrations will help build the foundation for drawing inferences.  Have your students tell you how the characters feel in each frame and why they think they feel that way.  What evidence can they point to in the pictures to support their opinions?  


Kindergarten:  Playing with words by substituting phonemes at the beginning, middle, and end of words helps both reading AND spelling skills.  Before you introduce the comic, take a moment to play!  Write "zoom" on a whiteboard.  After children read it, erase the /m/ and challenge children to make other sound effects by adding different final sounds!  You can follow the same protocol with "zup," this time changing the middle phoneme or vowel sound.  
Medial phoneme substitutions: /z/ /u/ /p/ to /z/ /o/ /p/
Final phoneme substitutions: /z/ /oo/ /m/ to /z/ /oo/ /p/
First Grade:  Now that your students are more established readers, it might be a good time to focus on reading with inflection.  Challenge students to notice the end punctuation in each speech or thought bubble.  How would the character say those words?  Using voices for each character can further reinforce this skill.
Second Grade:  Some of the text boxes give facts and information while others describe the action in the frame or something out of view.  Have students identify which type of text is in each box.  You can color code them and then have teams assigned for choral reading for a specific text type! 

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Week 4
Pre K:  Print the full page version of the comic and attach each page to a a sheet of 12" x 18" construction paper. Look at the pictures in each panel of the comic.  Ask students to dictate a word or phrase would to describe the characters or actions in each panel and record those on the construction paper.  Bind all the pages in a book to read together!
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Kindergarten:  Word keys can help unlock patterns in reading and spelling.  Our sound effects this week provide a great springboard for exploring the /up/ /op/ and /ap/ keys.  Create mini books for these word families using the corresponding comic pane for a cover.  For example, use page 7 as a cover for a book about /op/ and have students illustrate rhyming words like: mop, top, stop, or hop to create a mini book!
First Grade:  Expand on last week's work with character voices and inflection by reading with voice effects!  You'll notice that Data Dog has both speech and thought bubbles.  When reading aloud, have students read the thought bubbles holding a cup in front of their mouths to give their voice a far away and thoughtful quality!  It's not only fun, it helps increase attention to details in text.
Second Grade:  Go on an action word hunt!  Armed with only a copy of the comic and a highlighter, challenge students to see how many action words they can highlight in the text boxes.  Take it to the next level to see if they can brainstorm synonyms for those actions words.  Does the sentence have the same meaning with their new words.  How does word choice affect tone and meaning?  It's a fun way to explore this writing concepts without the daunting task of revising their own original work!

Week 5
Pre K:  Have your students take turns acting out the comic as you read it!  Students can make the sound effects of the different animals as they pantomime the action.  The frigate bird says "ack."  The penguins say, "hee haw."  And the tortoise does not say much at all...though it can make quiet hissing and munching sounds!
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Kindergarten: Phonemic awareness and phonological processing skills are an important foundational literacy skills.  They can be fun to practice too!  This activity is bound to be a hit with your more kinesthetic learners!  Make a list of the sound effects in this week's comic.  Next create a physical pattern that the class can turn into a rhythm such as {stomp, stomp, clap}.  Once everyone can join in on creating the rhythm in unison, select one of the sound effects from your list.  The goal of this game is to keep the pattern going while saying as many real or nonsense words that rhyme with the selected word as you can.  Start the rhythm:
{stomp, stomp, clap} {stomp, stomp, clap} {stomp, stomp, clap}
Start the rhyming chain with one of the words from the list, e.g. zup.  Continue the pattern and challenge students to add new words at regular intervals like this: {stomp, stomp, clap} cup {stomp, stomp, clap} mup {stomp, stomp, clap} pup {stomp, stomp, clap} flup {stomp, stomp, clap} sup.  The rhyming chain brakes when the rhythm is interrupted or you run out of rhymes!  Whoever broke the chain starts the next one!
First and Second Grade: Use the comic as a springboard for writing!  Challenge students to write their own comic panels.  Try using our template.  Students can create their own illustration.  Then write in the text box.  Each page has speech and thought bubbles students can write in then cut out and add to their comic frame.  Simply add more pages as needed!  Our illustrator, Ben, tells us that most comics try to tell the story with just three speech bubbles per panel!  It is tricker than you think.  Comics can be a hook for reluctant writers as it breaks up the task of writing into bite sized bits.  Your budding novelists (you know the ones...they use the word "very" a LOT!) can gain self editing skills as they decide what must be written and what can go!
Click to download comic template
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Week 6
Pre K:  Have students take turns reading the pictures to tell the story.  Provide props like Omni Glasses (try 3D printing ours), a rolled up drawing, suitcases, books about animals, and stuffed animals.  Have children make up their own adventures!
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Kindergarten:  There's lots of pressure to get kids reading earlier than ever, often in direct opposition to what we know about child development.  So what's the conscientious teacher to do?  Work on skills in a way that honors the developmental needs of young children!  A rhyming relay is one way to do that. Here's how to play: 
  1. Select some words from the comic, such as all the sound effects ending in /p/. 
  2. Next have students brainstorm words that rhyme with each word they selected from the comic.  (pop: bop, drop, cop, stop, mop, hop, kerplop, zop, etc.)  Depending on the needs of your students you might write each word on a card.
  3. Split the class into relay teams and select a rhyme captain for each team.  This is a good role for a child who is very good at rhyming.
  4. Have each team form a line on one side of the room and position the rhyming captain for each team opposite that team's line on the other side of the room.  
  5. Begin play by giving the first child in line for each relay team a word (or word card) then have that student move to the other side of the room in any manner you choose. (skip, hop, crawl, crab walk, whatever!)
  6. When that child reaches the rhyme captain, they must say a word that rhymes with the one they've been given.  The captain confirms the rhyme and sends the child back to their team with the new word (either in their memory or with a word card.)
  7. The next child in the line takes the new word to the rhyme captain and then produces a new rhyming word for the captain to confirm.  
  8. Repeat steps six and seven until the first team gets back to their first rhymer.​
First Grade:  Students have practiced using a cup to create a "thinking" voice.  Brainstorm other voices for the new characters in the comic this week.  What will Darwin's voice sound like?  How about Curtis and Beth?  Then challenge students to read the speech bubbles using character voices.
Second Grade: Now that you have the full set of comics, you can set up a multimedia readers theater performance of the full story!  Project each comic behind your readers and invite other classes or parents to come see your performance.  Of course, no costuming is necessary in reader's theater, but if your class is so inclined they could even create simple props or costumes.  You can give everyone a role by having multiple sea lion pups, tortoises, and penguins.  
All grades:  Try your hand at drawing finches or other birds in your area!  Be sure to notice tiny details and include them in your drawings.

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2/4/2021

Mission: Penguins? Week 6 Vote

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What does the evidence show?

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To help evaluate the evidence, we're offering five bonus livestreams on Friday, February 12th.   You can join us at 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30, or 11:00 AM Eastern Time!  We'll review the evidence and work with classes in the livestream to determine the importance and meaning of each clue. The sessions will last about 20 minutes.  We'll look at photos of the evidence and organize that evidence on a virtual poster. 
If you can't join us on February 12th, you can use the google slides version of our virtual poster to organize the discussion in your class whenever you choose.  ​ Just make a copy and go from there!  The vote will remain active and open until March 24th so your students have time to do some quality thinking!  We also hope you are able to share why your class voted the way it did on our Publish It page.  Simply snap a photo or screen shot and upload your images!  We'd love to see what your students are thinking!
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Click to access the Google Slides virtual poster!
click to get this week's Google form to copy, adapt, and share

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2/4/2021

Mission: Penguin? Lesson Ideas

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Tips for Adapting Lessons for Distanced and Remote Learners!

Each week, we provide two new lesson opportunities.  Some will be very easy to adapt to a distanced classroom setting while others may require a bit more thinking.  We're here to help with that!  Remember, you can skip any lessons you choose and still provide your students with a great mission experience.  Even under normal conditions, it is rare that a class does EVERY lesson associated with a mission, so be kind to yourselves.  Less really can be more!

That being said, I'll add to this page weekly so you can find adaptation ideas for the lessons you DO choose to do. ​

Day 1: To the Galapagos
In person with distancing: This lesson sets the stage for the mission with a mapping activity as well as setting up data collection protocols.  Your existing protocols for handling papers should be all the modification needed.
Remote learning:  Use tools like Google Maps to support your online discussion.  Share pdf maps, journal pages, and data collection pages through your learning management system so students can access them digitally!
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Day 2: Sounds Different
​In person with distancing: For the opening demo, use the variation where you are the one touching the string.  Use gloved hands and/or sanitize between students.  Students will be able to work in socially distanced pairs by providing a longer length of string and taking turns attaching objects.  Each partner holds one end of the string to their ear.  They can swing the object to tap it against a desk or chair leg.
Remote:  This is a great raid the recycling bin sort of activity.  The materials, even for the bonus design challenge, are flexible and easily scavenged.  The only must have item is some sort of string or yarn.  After introducing the lesson during a class session or though your learning management system, have students complete the challenge and report out with videos  or during your next class session.
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Day 3: Beaks, Beaks, Beaks
​In person with distancing: Provide each student their own baggie of "food" to have at their designated workspace.  If possible gather enough "beaks" for each student to have one.  Have students work with gloved hands, or sanitize hands and "beaks" before trading them with a partner.
Remote:  Encourage students to gather their own materials at home!  Challenge them to get creative with the different types of "beaks" they gather or assemble.  Remind them to ask their adults before using any food or small objects for this activity.  After students explore independently at home, gather for a group discussion or share reflections on your LMS.  Be sure to talk about how the different "beaks" and "foods" they gathered may have produced different results!
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Day 4: Same and Different
​In person with distancing: This lesson has students assemble and compare life-size animal posters.  Instead of working in collaborative groups, share page seven of the lesson with students so they can complete the Venn diagram portion of the activity by comparing the animal outlines.  If time and space permit, students can assemble their own six page life size penguin puzzles.
Remote:  If students are able to print at home, a life size animal poster could become a wonderful family project.  Share a link to download the posters!  Alternatively, have students use the images on page seven of the lesson as a reference as you collaboratively create your triple Venn diagrams.  The life-size animal posters are also visible in Mobile Headquarters and Virtual Mobile HQ slides so those images could also be used to complete the Venn diagrams.
Click to Access Virtual Mobile HQ slides
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Day 5: Blubber (La Loberia)

​In person with distancing
: Have students sanitize their hands prior to trying the blubber glove.  Consider having students bring materials from home to construct their insulating alternative.  Provide a collection of additional materials for students who were not able to bring things from home.  If needed (to ensure social distancing) students can work independently rather in teams.

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Remote:  Send the blubber glove assembly directions home to adults.  If they are unable to construct a glove, demonstrate the use of a blubber glove during your class meeting or with a video on your LMS.  Then challenge students to create two or more insulating designs as described in the lesson and compare them to find the most effective solution.  Encourage them to be creative in their materials choices and use what is on hand.  Remember to check the recycling bin too!
Day 6: Relative Abundance
(The Rookery)

In person with distancing: This card game can be modified to play at individual desks by splitting up the draw pile so each student has their own.  Instead of trading cards with one another, students can select from their face up discards or face down draw cards when they roll a “T.”  To simplify things further, have just one die and all students adapt their cards based on each roll of the die.
Remote:  To keep printing to a minimum, families who are able to print the game cards, boards, and die at home can print just a single game board.  If it is impossible to get game parts to students, focus on the ELA integration instead as this can be done without any special materials.  
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Day 7: Buoyancy (Kicker Rock)
In person with distancing: Instead of having students work collaboratively, give them small set of materials and small containers of water to create and test their own designs.  Have students share their successes and struggles and then redesign their own small, neutrally buoyant objects. 
Remote:  This lesson offers another opportunity for creative scavenging!  Encourage students to share their collections of materials as well as their design attempts through your learning management system.  Direct the adults at home to cut the top off of a water or soft drink bottle so students have a deeper water column in which to test their designs.
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Day 8: Blue-Footed Booby
​(Punta Pitt)

In person with distancing: This lesson can be completed with only slight modifications in your classroom using any art supplies you wish.  They will decorate their own “foot” as per the lesson, but instead of working directly on the “foot” of a classmate, flip each student’s second foot template over and color the back with the side of a crayon.  Each student should use a unique color.  Cut that foot into pieces to create a puzzle for each student.  Distribute these puzzle pieces to classmates making sure they know who each piece belongs to.  Alternately, cut the pieces and write that student’s name on the back of each piece.  Once students have decorated their classmates’ foot puzzle pieces, those pieces should be retuned to their “owner” who will re-assemble the foot for display.  This activity can happen throughout the week so papers have time to sit between students. 
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Remote: Begin the lesson by brainstorming positive attributes about one another during a class meeting or through your learning management system.  Students can use their classmates ideas to decorate their own “feet” at home.  Encourage students to get creative with art supplies, try cutting up old magazines for collage or creating mixed-media feet using whatever is on hand! ​

Day 9: Tortoise Special

​In person with distancing
:  Have students work independently rather than in groups.  Share work by projecting photos or using a document camera so that students can get a closer look without getting closer to one another!
Remote: Once again, encourage families to use materials they have on hand for this activity.  Empty cereal or shipping boxes make great raw materials.  Share student work in your LMS or the Go2Science Publish It page!  Also, share the arts integration with families as it makes a great family craft activity.
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Day: 10 Ocean Currents: Go with the Flow (Santa Cruz)
In person with distancing:  If at all possible, take this active game outdoors.  Note that two long lengths of rope are optional materials for this activity.  To ensure distancing, use the rope variation and make knots or tape marks at socially distanced intervals.  Then, have fun modeling and discussing currents!
Remote: During your class meeting or in a short video talk about or demonstrate mixing hot and cold water in a bathtub as described in “Setting the Stage.”  Instead of adapting the active group game, focus on the arts integration.  It is a perfect activity to do at home under close adult supervision.  Have students show the representations of currents they create.  Discuss how,  like the wax, water of differing temperatures can flow past each other without completely mixing.
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Day :11 Rafting North Seymour)

​In person with distancing
:  Instead of working in teams, pair students so that one records results and the other manipulates the model.  If needed, have each pair test just some of the animals so that you can alternate groups at a limited number of water tubs.  Compare results across groups to build consensus about the likely outcomes.
Remote: Share page five of the lesson pdf with the adults at home.  If they do not have any styrofoam trays available, encourage them to test alternative materials.  Craft foam, lids from small plastic containers, or a square piece of plastic from a lettuce box are all possibilities.  Be sure the adults understand that the raft should not support the penny collection for all of the animals.  Only some animals will be successful. 
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Day 12: Publishing
In person with distancing: After a group planning session determine which students will make which elements for the final display.  Students can complete components individually, then add them to the group display.  Remember to share your results on the Publish It! page.  We’d love to see what you create.
Remote: Instead of creating a physical poster, try creating a slide show or even a BitMoji style poster session.  Students can take screen shots of the evidence or write and draw about it in their journals.  Have students determine which elements they will contribute to the collective final display.  Remember to include a statement of the hypothesis, a description of the testing method, the evidence collected, analysis of that evidence, and conclusions!  We can’t wait to see what you create!

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2/4/2021

Mission: Penguin! Field Video Links

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Share content though your learning management system

Each week, we'll post links to field videos on this page so you can push them to student devices or post to your learning management system without having to set up accounts or passwords for your students.

The internet is a wonderful way to explore the world, but kids need to be safe!  That's why we're sharing links for our videos via Video.link
 to support your distance learning this mission!  You can send parents here to collect the links or copy and paste them and share via the platform of your choice.  The videos are also visible by clicking on the video thumbnail.   To ensure kids' safety, we advise teacher and parents not to share this page directly with your young students if they are unsupervised.  Children should also be supervised if watching videos or livestreams directly on the site.  ​
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Hypothesis Video
Hypothesis
Dr. Steinfurth wants us to find out if there are undiscovered penguin colonies on any of the islands in the Galapagos archipelago. While we are there, she'd also like us to to keep track of the animals we see. We need your help!

link: 
https://bit.ly/PenguinHypothesis
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Day 1: Galapagos Bound!
Beth and Curtis travel to the Galapagos Islands. They are excited to test Dr. Steinfurth's hypothesis about penguins!
​link: bit.ly/PenguinFieldVideo1
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Day 2: The Search Begins!
​Curtis and Beth take to the water in search of penguins. There are so many amazing animals to see!

​link: bit.ly/PenguinFieldVideo2
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Day 3: Puerto Chino
Curtis and Beth visit Puerto Chino today! They discover a very famous bird...but is it the one they're seeking? Come along and find out!
link: bit.ly/PenguinFieldVideo3
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Day 5: La Loberia
Join Curtis and Beth as they investigate a very interesting animal on the way to La Loberia! They find a feather floating in the water, but is it evidence of penguins?
link: bit.ly/PenguinFieldVideo05
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Day 4: Punta Carola
​Curtis and Beth check out another beach on San Cristobal and meet LOTS of babies! What kind of babies were they? Did they find evidence of penguins?
link: bit.ly/PenguinFieldVideo4

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Day 6: The Rookery
Curtis and Beth explore the Rookery on San Cristobal island as they search for evidence of penguins. Along they way, they find a creature that sneezes salt!  How interesting!
link: bit.ly/PenguinFieldVideo06
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Day 7: Kicker Rock
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Day 8: Punta Pit
Curtis dons S.C.U.B.A. gear to dive deep, while Beth surveys the surface while snorkeling. There are amazing animals at this new location, but do penguins call this remote rock home?
​link: bit.ly/PenguinFieldVideo07
Beth and Curtis take a boat ride to the far end of San Cristobal as they continue searching for penguins. They find some birds with very unusual feet!

link: bit.ly/PenguinFieldVideo08
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Day 9: Tortoise Special
Beth and Curtis found LOTS of Galapagos tortoises and learn a bit about how people here are protecting these amazing animals.
link: bit.ly/PenguinFieldVideo09
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Day 10: Santa Cruz
Curtis and Beth traveled by boat to visit the island of Santa Cruz. They found lava tunnels and a very unusual forest! But what about penguins?
link: bit.ly/PenguinFieldVideo10
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Day 11: North Seymour
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Day 12: Isabela!
link: bit.ly/PenguinFieldVideo_11
Beth and Curtis set off to see if they can find a penguin on an island where they've been spotted in the past. Will they be able to catch a glimpse of the rarest penguin on earth?
link: bit.ly/PenguinFieldVideo12

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1/30/2021

Go2Science in the News!

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Classrooms are getting attention and accolades! 

Woolwich, ME (March 31, 2020) – How can schools take advantage of the ever-expanding digital world? With iPhones and other devices popping up in the hands of more students, it can be tempting to see screens as a distraction from learning, but Woolwich Central School (WCS) has found a way to make the Internet a tool for engagement.
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PORTLAND (WGME) -- An elementary school in Portland is using a web based educational tool that uses real science adventures to help students learn reading, writing, math and much more.
At Lyseth Elementary School, three times out of the year, kindergarten students go on virtual missions all around the world.
It's an online program called “Go 2 Science.”
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PORTLAND — After they learned about a school in Kenya that didn’t have ready access to clean drinking water, kindergarten students at Lyseth Elementary School decided they had to help.
They raided their piggy banks and donated their tooth fairy money. One enterprising student set up a lemonade and cupcake stand in her neighborhood. In all, the kindergartners raised more than $650.
The money will go to the Wishing Well campaign at the HIP Academy in Kimilili, an impoverished rural area of Kenya, to help cover the cost of drilling a well and installing a pump. The goal of the online campaign is to raise at least $14,200.
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Global Science Education and Go2Science
May 15, 2019
 
An upcoming research adventure will take educator Beth Heidemann and scientist Curtis Bentley to HIP Academy, which is located in Bungoma County in rural Kenya. Ms. Heidemann and Mr. Bentley are co-creators of Go2Science, an online resource for Pre-K-to-second grade classrooms. They are going to Kenya to help HIP Academy Director Livingstone Kegode solve a problem that he says is interfering with the education of his students – the lack of clean, accessible drinking water. 
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At the moment, students must fetch drinking water from a distant river; this causes illness and cuts into academic time, says Mr. Kegode.
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BRES K STUDENTS TRAVEL TO THAILAND
Tricia Campbell
SEP 16, 2019

This morning BRES Kindergarten students traveled to Thailand on a real science mission with educator Beth Heideman and scientists/explorer Curtis Bentley, co-founders of Go2Science. 
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1/28/2021

Mission: Penguins? Week 5 Vote

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Big decision about the last day!

Beth and Curtis made a big decision.  On their last day in the Galapagos, they plan to head to an island where penguins HAVE been spotted in the past.  Maybe they can catch a glimpse of these endangered birds there!  Which island do you think they should look on?  


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1/21/2021

Mission: Penguins? Week 4 Vote

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You direct the mission!

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Voting for Week 4 will close on Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 4PM (EST).  The two locations with the most votes will be where we go in week 5!  Use the buttons below to grab a pdf version of the vote choices to project or share with students or grab a google form to collect student feedback.
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1/14/2021

Mission: Penguins? Week 3 Vote

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Is it time to head to a new island?

Voting for Week 3 will close on Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 4PM (EST).  The two locations with the most votes will be where we go in week 4!  Use the buttons below to grab a pdf version of the vote choices to project or share with students or grab a google form to collect student feedback.
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    Meet Beth and Curtis!

    Presidential Award-Winning teacher and hula hoop fanatic, Beth loves bringing real world science to kids! Beth is fascinated by engineering challenges, technology, and outdoor learning spaces. After 25 years teaching kindergarten, she’s excited to share her passion and experience on-line with classrooms from around the world!

    Curtis is a lot of things: a scientist, lawyer, explorer, drummer and Ironman. His brain is always churning. His paleontological finds are in museums across the country and he even has an extinct sea turtle named after him. He loves traveling the world and immersing himself in new environments and cultures. Curtis finds joy in sparking the imagination of young learners and making them think in new ways.

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