A barquentine tall ship will be our home during the expedition. Here it is resting atop my all time favourite map from The Future Mapping Company. I stand in front of it often dreaming and planning adventures.
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Our newest explorer is set to go! She took a bit longer to make and will have to leave her antennae camera at home. I did make sure she had her side heaters though. She will be nice and toasty on the trip! She won't be bringing any luggage as she has a lot of gear on her already. Any other small items she can make use of her two front pockets.
Clever name eh? My best friend from high school knows a lot about data and tracking environmental happenings around the world. She thought we would like this Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The graph below will take you to the interactive one where you can compare the amount of sea ice from 1975-2015. What do you notice? There is a lot of interesting information on the NSIDC site for you to explore. About the Cryosphere is a great place to start.
Today is brought to you by the letter C...and perhaps an Arctic mouse?
As much as we love art, we are not headed to the ARTic but to the ArCtic. It comes from arktos, which means bear in Greek. Where are the bears? In the northern night sky you will find Ursa Major (Great Bear) and Ursa Minor (Little Bear). You really have to use your imagination to see the bears : ). These two constellations include the Big Dipper and Little Dipper. Polaris, the North Star is at the end of Little Bear's tail.
What's so special about the North Star? The Big Dipper and Little Dipper are asterisms, which means each is a named group of stars found in constellations. Three * in a triangle like so ⁂ is also called an asterism. It's not used much anymore in writing but I quite like it and think we should put it to use somehow. Asterism has a nice ring to it as well and I'm collecting it for my favourite words list. Have you learnt any interesting new words lately? First up, boots! They take up a lot of luggage space but are necessary items. You might be wondering why parts of Central and South America are on the map...My Reader's Digest Wide World Atlas is very good for making envelopes too : ).
I have missed countdowns! They used to happen more frequently when I was in the classroom. There were countdowns for pretty much anything I could think of that needed a countdown...which in my book was plenty : ). Most of my time lately has been spent researching, planning and getting things ready for the trip. In the next fifty days, I'll be showing you here what I am bringing with me and sharing what I've been learning preparing for the expedition. I'm really enjoying visiting classes here in Hong Kong and finding out what you know and are interested in. I've gotten some good advice for the Arctic from a fourth grader too: layers, lots of layers. This is my favourite note so far: I'm down with the drawing but rest assured there will be no bringing of meat or feeding of polar bears. I wonder how many different animals live in the Arctic and how many I'll actually be able to see.
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