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Theme 3: Science is Building Models to Explain and Invent Ideas
Episode 1: "The Haunting"
Snoopers will be exploring their senses with the use of "black boxes". Students are aware of some basic facts involving their senses and how they are used before they come to kindergarten. All that we learn and do involves one or more of the five senses.
- SIGHT - Seventy percent of the body's sense receptors cluster in the eyes, and it is mainly through seeing the world that we appraise and understand it.
- HEARING - Sound is produced by vibrating objects. Sound has three characteristics: pitch, quality, and loudness. Sound is caused by a vibration in an object that travels as a wave of molecules and ripples out in all directions.
- SMELL - Smell is the most direct of our senses. Smell is stored almost exclusively in the long-term memory. Smells stimulate learning and information. All smells fall into basic categories: minty, floral, ethereal, musky, resinous, foul, and acrid.
- TOUCH - The skin is the largest organ of the body. Three types of touch receptors sense pressure, pain, and temperature.
- TASTE - Inside each taste bud about 50 taste cells relay information to the brain. We taste sweet things; we taste bitter things at the back; sour things are tasted at the sides; and salty things are tasted over the surface.
Episode 2: "Von Vanishek's Curse"
Snoopers get the engineering bug this month as they design and build their own models! There are many cross-curricular activities, which you can draw from for this entire month. Math is certainly one, and the engineers who designed the Hoover Dam really had to know their facts and figures. Did you know?
- At its base, Hoover Dam is as thick (660 feet) as two footballs fields measured end to end.
- Hoover Dam is 726 feet tall. That's almost 200 feet taller than the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.
- There is enough concrete in Hoover Dam (4.5 million cubic yards) to build a two-lane road from Seattle, Washington, to Miami, Florida, or a four-foot-wide sidewalk around the Earth at the Equator.
What engineering feats will YOUR Snoopers come up with? Who knows, maybe a Snooper will design the next Hoover Dam?
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