https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz Read in your nonfiction text. Find a fun or interesting fact about your reading. Think Deeper and add "This makes me think..." en-us 2017-11-02 02:46:55 UTC 2025-12-06 02:12:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Dartstarget.png https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203058287 Plants use energy from the sun to do a cycle called photosynthesis. This makes me think plants have a big job to the enviroment. 

Plants come in many different shapes and sizes. This makes me think that there might be rare leaf shapes and common leaf shapes. 

A chlorphyll absorbs most colors of light, but it does not absorb green . This makes me think chlorphyll doesn't absorb dark colors like purple.

Cutting down trees can upset the cycle of oxygen but humans keep doing it. This makes me think most  humans don't care about nature.

Nonvascular plants don't have parts that move sugar, water, and other thing between plant parts. This makes me think that these plants, on their inside, they are lazy.

The world record of the highest redwood tree was 112 meters high! This makes me think redwood trees grow to very high hights





]]> 2017-11-02 18:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203058287 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203058325 Fun Fact: The sun provides things for the planets.
This makes me think that the sun is like a parent to to the solar system like our parents give us all we need to survive.


The solar system is a small part of the Milky Way Galaxy.
This makes me think that the Milky Way Galaxy is the creater of the galaxy or something like that.

The solar system was once a big spinning cloud.
This makes me think that the moon and the other planets were also made as a smaller spinning cloud.

An Astronaut means "Star Voyager".
This makes me think that maybe a sailer means Ocean or Sea Voyager.

There is a long line of millions of astroids called "Asteroid Belt".
This makes me think of a belt in pants because it is between the upper body and the legs like how the Asteroid Belt is between Mars and Jupiter.

]]> 2017-11-02 18:14:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203058325 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203058406 A fun fact is that the gray bat can eat 3000 bats at night. This makes me think that bats like to think blood. Another fun fact is that bats have 5 fingers ob both of their wings. This makes me think that the bats use it for caching their prey. Another fun fact is that bats clean themselves using both tounges and claws to clean thereselves. This makes me think bats are like cats]]> 2017-11-02 18:14:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203058406 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203058461 Annie Oakley wants to shoot and be outdoors, but her sisters say that she should do things like sew and cook.

This makes me think that Annie should follow her passion and do what she wants to do]]> 2017-11-02 18:15:00 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203058461 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203058560 A fun fact is that, on the moon, if you left at night, you would freeze to death, and if  you left in the morning, you would melt to death. This makes me think that astronauts need lots of gear so they can survive in space.

The footprints on the moon last for 1,000,0000,000 years long.
This makes me think that there is no wind to blow the dust around.


Some astronauts bring some kind of material like steel, stone, and plaster to make a space dome.
This makes me think that after astronauts explore the moon, they go back to the space dome and take a break.

People send astronauts to study what it's like on the moon and in space.
This makes me think that scientists are very interested on the moon.










]]> 2017-11-02 18:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203058560 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203058615 A fun fact is in 1930,s a large area of American grasslands turned to dust. This makes me think that a long drought pasted by and it turned the American grassland to dust.

More than 99 persent of North America's prairie lands are used for agriculture- growing crops. That means only 1 persent of the original American praiies are left untouched. This makes me think that there would only be a little part of the North American grassland and the rest would be crops.


African elephants eat grass, leaves, bark, and roots. An adult elephant can eat 300 to 400 pounds (136 to 181 kilograms) of plants every day. This makes me think that elephants are very strong because they eat 300 to 400 pounds of food a day.






Wavy brown grass stretches as far as the eye can see in a Ugandan grasslands.This makes me think that is a very big place. ]]> 2017-11-02 18:15:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203058615 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203058926  Penguins huddle together duing winter storms. It reminds me of when me and my family are hugging. Penguins parents chew on their food and spits it into their baby's mouth!]]> 2017-11-02 18:15:54 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203058926 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203058949 A fun fact about sacagawea is that then she was 10 her tribe was attacked and she got kidnaped to a diffrent tribe]]> 2017-11-02 18:15:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203058949 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059120 Wolfs can howl to talk to other wolfs, another exeamlpe is there are 3 diffrints kinds of gray wolves, wolves need echother         , wolves eat a lot they can eat to 20 POUNDS! Thats about 200 hot dogs!]]> 2017-11-02 18:16:15 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059120 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059259 A fun fact about the spider is they dont have bones. Instead they have an exoskeleton. This protects their soft insides like a suit. 
A fun fact about the African  Goltath beetle is heavy as an apple.
The rhinoceros beetle can move 850 times its own size! 
An leaf bug is big as an long stick!
I learned that house spiders help with any bugs around the house like flies and other creepy-crawlers. 

]]> 2017-11-02 18:16:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059259 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059273 1. I learned that all bones have diffrent names like, tibia. 
This makes me think they have easier names like, ankle bone, because the other names are harder to say and to remember. 

I learned that your foot bone has 26 bones
. This make me think it has alot of bones because to help you stand up.



]]> 2017-11-02 18:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059273 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059478 A fun fact is that football was not born in the United States it actually was based on the English sport of rugby.]]> 2017-11-02 18:17:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059478 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059604 A fun fact is that many ways engineers invent cars in tools.
     It gets painted the car to protect the body. We use metal and sheets to make parts with a factory. ]]> 2017-11-02 18:17:15 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059604 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059620 A komodo dragon can eat 100 pounds of food in one meal.That is like gobbling down 400 hamburgers!this makes me think a bout food eating contests.]]> 2017-11-02 18:17:17 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059620 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059626 Earth's atmoshere has four layers or sheets. This makes me think that the earth is really strong. Hurricanes are the strongest storms on earth. They form over warm water. This makes me think that hurricanes can form everywhere where warm water is.]]> 2017-11-02 18:17:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059626 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059655 A fun fact that i learned is that a city in spain is built on a mountain. Earthguakes usually last for lest that one minute.did you know that there are more than thousand small earthguakes each year]]> 2017-11-02 18:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059655 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059728 Giraffe calves can be up to 6 feet tall at birth and learn to walk in under a hour and its not easy to walk when you long legs as a giraffe. This makes me think that they are well teach by their nice and rensponsible mom ]]> 2017-11-02 18:17:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059728 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059746 When the monarchs are still caterpillar the eat milkweeds and it has toxin in it so when they eat it it makes the skin poisonous.]]> 2017-11-02 18:17:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059746 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059852 A fun fact is that your skeleton prorect important parts inside you. This makes me think that your sk]]> 2017-11-02 18:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059852 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059854 1. There are more than one satellite. This makes me think how do they make satellites?
2. Huracanes are like tornados but formed in water. It makes me think to not live near the water.
3. The weather satellites are big! So it makes me think how long did it take to make one?
4. They put tracking devices on sea turtles. This makes me think why?

]]> 2017-11-02 18:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203059854 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203060294 1. African lions can take down food ten times their size.
This makes me think that african lions are strong.

2. An oak processionary caterpillers are only 2 inches long but are deadly

This makes me think the caterpiller has a  bad deisese becuase they are really tiny.

3. Rattle snakes bite about 8,000 people a year 
This makes me think they are not friendly

4. A polar bear is the largest land predator alive today
This makes me think they are strong

5.]]> 2017-11-02 18:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203060294 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203060328 Bats live in roosts and roosts can be caves, treetops, or attics.
Bats pick places that are well hidden and places that protect the bats from bad weather. This makes me think of my house because my house protects me and i live with my family.]]> 2017-11-02 18:18:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203060328 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203060460 1. The mountain is Everest. It is the highest in the world. At 29,028 feet, it's close 5 and a half miles tall even higher than the clouds  
This makes me think that it is risky to go up and that people have died just to get to the top of the moutain, also how many people died 

2. Mount Everest isn't just tall it's one of the coldest place in the world. No matter what time of the year, it still snows and ice never melt. 
This makes me think how cold  it is.
3. No one has ever climed Mount everest all the way.

]]> 2017-11-02 18:19:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203060460 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203060895 1. Tides are caused by moon's gravity. This makes me think that ]]> 2017-11-02 18:19:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203060895 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203061418 A fun fact I learned is that a foal which is a  baby horse it grows its teath at one week old. This makes me think that foals grow very fast.]]> 2017-11-02 18:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203061418 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203061550 1. The snow is soft and slippery. For every 5 steps they take, they slide back 3 spaces.]]> 2017-11-02 18:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203061550 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203061603 When sacagawea was 15 she got married to Toussaint Charbonneau ]]> 2017-11-02 18:21:17 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203061603 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203061973 The land we live on is made of plates, the broken  plates are connected.
 This makes me think that the ground of earth is like a puzzle. A puzzle is also connected and it can smash and pull.]]> 2017-11-02 18:21:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203061973 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203062194 Some facts about amphibians are that they have a life cycle that is 4 parts to it. There is an egg, a tad pole, a froglete and a frog. Frogs have very long tongs, it is about 7 feet long! Some frogs are very hevy, they can be up to 50 pounds!!! Some frogs are very small, they can be as small as an insect!! Frogs can jump very high, it can jump 20 times its own body!!!! Did you know that there are 5,000
Different kinds of frogs!!!!!

]]> 2017-11-02 18:22:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203062194 michaelab3808 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203063401 1. Your body takes oxygen and gets rid of carbon dioxide with every breath.
This makes me think that the airthat is gross comes out when the freash airvcomes in.

2. The gases, nutrients and wastes all the travel in blood.
This makes me think that it gets rid of the nutrients and the blood.

3. The heart is a pump about the first size of your fist.
This makes me think that the pump of a heart is as big as your fist.



]]> 2017-11-02 18:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203063401 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203066644 When there is a big crowed police officer use horses. This makes me think that police can catch bad guys with no problem. They can also see over humans heads.]]> 2017-11-02 18:30:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203066644 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203067096 1. Most people travled on foot or onhorseback or by boat. 

2. Not all kids went to school. Most young people were taught at home or by tutors.

3. Indian children played with dalls, toy bows, and clay. They competed in ball games. In winter they had sleds maid out of buffalo rids.


]]> 2017-11-02 18:31:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203067096 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203070569 In the sport of horseracing , riders are called jockeys.]]> 2017-11-02 18:38:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203070569 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203073122 Butterflies can fly more than 2,500 miles when they migrate each time!]]> 2017-11-02 18:42:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203073122 https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203073123 When a horse gallops it lands on all of its 4 legs at a time. This makes me think they can run super fast.]]> 2017-11-02 18:42:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dvogel/8ujxfzl9wpaz/wish/203073123