The reading level is lower than the grade level to facilitate the aquisition of new concepts. Thursday's Classroom lessons engage both sides of the brain to maximize learning. Students will also give creative nicknames to real life extremophiles that summarize their characteristics and living environments. In this lesson students measure small items and compare their sizes to microbes. Students find out for themselves by making ice rafts in the teacher's lounge refrigerator.
Scientists are real people, too, and so are their dogs.
In this lesson students read an amusing story about Dr. Tony Phillips and his sled dog team as they attempt to retrieve microbe samples from an extreme mountain peak. Students can hone their letter-writing skills by composing a letter to Dr. Phillips offering advice and support. Students perform simple arithmetic to answer questions about a musher's life with dogs. You are visitor number Error. All rights reserved.