Ice Cube Keeper Engineering Challenge

Ask: Will having a peeking hole work?

Next, we imagined what our ice cube keeper would look like, planned, and created it.

I predict that my ice cube will stay frozen 7 hours.

My table:

Time:   9:30	Measurement:   4 cm.	Observations:   It is already getting wet.
10:11	4 cm.
11:33	4 cm.	It’s looking good still.
12:08	4 cm.	It’s still looking good.
1:12	3 cm.	It is starting to melt more.
2:32	3 cm.	It’s getting more melted.
3:00	3 cm.	My keeper is awesome!

 

I might try this to keep my ice cube from melting as soon as it did. My reflections: My idea was really good. It did everything I needed it to do by keeping the ice cube alive all day. I probably shouldn’t have put so many holes. I also like that I did put holes because I can imagine the ice cube in all sorts of ways.

After reading The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs, a folk tale where a young boy searches for seven wonders in his own ordinary little country town, we went hunting for wonders in our own lives.

The Quechee Gorge is a wonder near my house.  A railroad track used to run across the Quechee Gorge.  I wonder if the Quechee Gorge is ever going to flood out.  I wonder if someone has ever fallen off the Quechee Gorge.

Three facts I learned while I was reading:

Antelope ground squirrels get their water from their food.

Temperatures can go all the way up to 120 degrees!

The kit fox is mostly nocturnal.

 

Two questions I have for the author:

Why is there snow in the desert sometimes?

Why do plants drop their leaves to save moisture?

 

One thing that I thought was the most interesting:

A cougar may eat mice or grasshoppers.  A cougar is a type of cat.  It’s like a panther but not black.

erupting lava

frosting mountain

gossiping dinosaur

growling dinosaur

waving tree

I feel like a flame

I feel like a volcano

I’m really thirsty