Week 12: 5th Grade Fall Scavenger Hunt!
Internet Hunt Activity:
The Internet is an enormous collection of answers. The challenge is to find them. Completing an Internet hunt will develop your web browsing skills. You will learn lots of interesting stuff. You will harness powerful web site tools like databases to obtain fresh information. You will use this data to answer challenging, thinking required questions. Oh, what fun!
The Internet is an enormous collection of answers. The challenge is to find them. Completing an Internet hunt will develop your web browsing skills. You will learn lots of interesting stuff. You will harness powerful web site tools like databases to obtain fresh information. You will use this data to answer challenging, thinking required questions. Oh, what fun!
October Facts Internet Hunt Directions:
Click on the colored, underlined words to follow the link. Find the answer and write it on your answer sheet.
Click the Back button to return to this hunt page. (These getting back tips may be helpful) pdf worksheet
1. For those of us who live in Northeastern America, the brightly colored, fall leaves are a glorious sight.
What three factors give the leaves their many fall colors?
2. One way to sort trees is to identify them as deciduous or evergreen.
Explain the difference.
Some people think that weather changes in the fall cause the deciduous trees to lose their leaves.
This is incorrect. What does cause deciduous trees to lose their leaves each fall?
Weather is a factor in the coloration of the leaves in fall.
List three weather factors that contribute to the color of the leaves.
3. The Hickory is a very useful tree. Use the Nature Walk web activity.
List 3 different ways people use them.
Name a nut you have eaten.
Check it out - Does the nut you ate grow on a tree, like a hickory nut does? (Research required)
4. Pumpkins are popping up practically everywhere!
How did the Colonists cook pumpkin pie?
Is this: the same as | kind of like | or very different from - the way you've had pumpkin pie.
5. Chickadees gather and store seeds to prepare for winter.
What is this "storing" behavior called?
6. October 5th is National Change a Light day.
Why should we change away from using incandescent light bulbs?
Estimate: What percentage of the lightbulbs in your home are fluorescent and/or LED?
(How to calculate a percentage video at the Mathflix website) | Khan Academy percentages videos
There are always winners and losers in change.
How will the change to a new light bulb have a negative impact on some people?
7. Frost is a form of precipitation. How is frost formed?
8. You spy a woolly bear caterpillar crossing the sidewalk. Its black bands are wider than the brown band. What weather does this predict? (Use your Internet search skills to learn the answer.)
9. The Khan Academy website provides free, online videos that explain many areas of mathematics.
Watch a video related to the math you are currently studying. (Hint: The Index will help you locate a video.) I watched -
Describe a situation where you could use this math resource. 10. Write the names of the states that border your home state. Use an online map if you need help.
Helpful advice. Employing an organized way of writing the names will help you avoid missing a state.
Start with the state that is due North of your state. Move in a clockwise (or counter clockwise) fashion around the border.
Click on the colored, underlined words to follow the link. Find the answer and write it on your answer sheet.
Click the Back button to return to this hunt page. (These getting back tips may be helpful) pdf worksheet
1. For those of us who live in Northeastern America, the brightly colored, fall leaves are a glorious sight.
What three factors give the leaves their many fall colors?
2. One way to sort trees is to identify them as deciduous or evergreen.
Explain the difference.
Some people think that weather changes in the fall cause the deciduous trees to lose their leaves.
This is incorrect. What does cause deciduous trees to lose their leaves each fall?
Weather is a factor in the coloration of the leaves in fall.
List three weather factors that contribute to the color of the leaves.
3. The Hickory is a very useful tree. Use the Nature Walk web activity.
List 3 different ways people use them.
Name a nut you have eaten.
Check it out - Does the nut you ate grow on a tree, like a hickory nut does? (Research required)
4. Pumpkins are popping up practically everywhere!
How did the Colonists cook pumpkin pie?
Is this: the same as | kind of like | or very different from - the way you've had pumpkin pie.
5. Chickadees gather and store seeds to prepare for winter.
What is this "storing" behavior called?
6. October 5th is National Change a Light day.
Why should we change away from using incandescent light bulbs?
Estimate: What percentage of the lightbulbs in your home are fluorescent and/or LED?
(How to calculate a percentage video at the Mathflix website) | Khan Academy percentages videos
There are always winners and losers in change.
How will the change to a new light bulb have a negative impact on some people?
7. Frost is a form of precipitation. How is frost formed?
8. You spy a woolly bear caterpillar crossing the sidewalk. Its black bands are wider than the brown band. What weather does this predict? (Use your Internet search skills to learn the answer.)
9. The Khan Academy website provides free, online videos that explain many areas of mathematics.
Watch a video related to the math you are currently studying. (Hint: The Index will help you locate a video.) I watched -
Describe a situation where you could use this math resource. 10. Write the names of the states that border your home state. Use an online map if you need help.
Helpful advice. Employing an organized way of writing the names will help you avoid missing a state.
Start with the state that is due North of your state. Move in a clockwise (or counter clockwise) fashion around the border.