Come with us and take a close look at just how we are searching for the answers to how best feed our sled dogs! You’ll learn a ton about our dogs, Alaska, and the Mushing lifestyle, but along the way you’ll also learn more than you ever wanted to know about the scientific method, the Math that goes with it, and how you could use these skills to answer the everyday questions of your life!
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Grade level: 4-12
Required Classroom Time:
| Option A |
Option B |
Option C |
| A 1/2 hour to 1 hour (depending on grade level) to visit with us during the videoconference | 3 days- participate in the videoconference but also do the pre- and post-activities | 1 week to 1 month- participate in the videoconference and do the pre- and post-activities and explore/create from all of our Distance Learning Tools. |
Cost:
| Grades: preK-3 (30min.-45min.) | Grades: 4-12 (50min. to 1 hr) |
| N/A | $100.00 |
Content Area: Science, Math, Nutrition
Primary National Standards:
NS.K-12.1 SCIENCE AS INQUIRY
Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
Understanding about scientific inquiry
NS.K-12.7 HISTORY OF NATURE AND SCIENCE:
Science as a human endeavor
NS.K-12.6 PERSONAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES
Adaptable to:
| K-12 | ||
| NM-MEA.PK-12.1: Understand measurable attributes of objects and the units, systems, and processes of measurement |
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| NM-MEA.PK-12.2: Apply appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to determine measurements |
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| NM-ALG.PK-12.2: Represent and analyze mathematical situations and structures using algebraic symbols |
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| NM-ALG.PK-12.3: Use mathematical models to represent and understand quantitative relationships |
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| NM-PROB.COMM.PK-12.3: Analyze and evaluate the mathematical thinking and strategies of others; |
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| NM-ALG.PK-12.4: Analyze change in various contexts |
Overview of Videoconference:
| Time | Activity |
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5-10 min |
Intro, where we are, what we do, climate, etc… |
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10-15min |
The food questions! (see above program desciption) Basic dog nutritional needs (show a dog eating) factors that effect their eating: temp training stress any others? Okay, what’s the Scientific method? List out components, how they work and why How could we use this to test out different dog foods |
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15min |
Experimental design |
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10min |
Collect some data Wt. Food Wt. Poop Dog wt. Qualitative data sheet |
| 10min | Next steps... follow up experiments |
Overview of Pre- and Post Activities:
| Pre-Activity 1 | Pre-Activity 2 |
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| “What do you eat?” Brainstorm and info on what humans nutritional needs are. Tracking your own food and activity levels for a day (40-60min) | “What do wild Canines eat?” or… “How much does our food cost?” (20-30min) |
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| Post-Activity 1 |
Post-Activity 2 |
Post-Activity 3 |
| Moodle Survey/quiz; focus on how they could apply information learned about the feed exp to a question in their lives (20min) | Moodle forum post; prompt based on applying information learned about the feed exp. To a question in their lives (15min) | Design an experiment to look at something puzzling them in their lives. (30min) |