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Baby elephant poem and video. I would use this video to have my kindergarteners listen for rhyming words and write them. We will also Turn and Talk about what they see the elephant doing in the video and what questions they might have

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What do you notice? What do you wonder?

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Asking Questions

What do you see? What are you wondering? Where is he going? How long do you think he can hold his breath under water? Is he alone? What is he looking for? What happens if he doesn't find it?

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Follow a group of four polar bears as they swim in search of ice. Arctic Bear Productions filmmaker Adam Ravetch captured this footage by attaching a camera to one of the four animals. The big paws, the sun on the horizon, and seeing them swim from under the water are all rare to witness, but the video was also a conversation-starter for us about how the bears eat by hunting seals from platforms of sea ice, and why it's challenging for them to find ice.

In the summer of 2011, Ravetch and biologist Anthony Pagano first teamed up to attach a wildlife camera to the collar of a polar bear. Ravetch writes:

At the time scientists thought bears didn't eat very much in the summer and that they were fasting. The concern of course is how do they make it through these ice-free summers that are now longer then ever before, without the access to seals that ice provides.

It was long thought that berries or vegetation had no nutritional benefit to an animal that has evolved over 100,000 years to eat nothing but marine mammals. However, my footage showed the bear, almost nonstop, gorging on berries. This raises all kinds of research questions, including whether polar bears are changing diets to cope with the warming seasons?

As ice regions have longer melt seasons, some polar bear populations may try to adapt by swimming longer distances, hunting alternate animals, or foraging for other foods like berries and bird eggs.

File under: climate change and adaptation.

via Dot Earth.

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The Quest for Sea Ice: Swimming with polar bears and a camera

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Follow a group of four polar bears as they swim in search of ice. Arctic Bear Productions filmmaker Adam Ravetch captured this footage by attaching a camera to one of the four animals.

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Are these white creatures, white flowers, white crystals, white snowflakes or . . .. .. .? Watch to see what these "white" things do. Where is it? Habitat? What do you see? What do you wonder ?

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Flower-like Planthopper Nymphs spring away from harm

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Those are not flowers or snowflakes, nor are they small Easter parade hats or very tiny Komondors. These are a species of Planthopper Nymphs featured in the Smithsonian Channel's Wild Burma: Chasing Tigers, and they can spring quite quickly out of harm's way. It's probably best to not irritate sma

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Post my thinking...

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I'd use this image to teach a lesson on background knowledge and show our experience colors all of our thinking. In partners, I'd have students do a two column thinksheet where they noted what they saw and their thinking. I'd then have turn and talks so kids could use what they see (a tree, a path, manicured grass) to help them make sense of the image. I'd guide students to use these clues from the "text" and their background knowledge to help them see this is an image of a scuba park.

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Green Lake Picture -- Scuba Diver Photo -- National Geographic Photo of the Day

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A diver swims through a flooded park in Austria in this Photo of the Day selection.