1. Thursday in Geo-Quest
Tomorrow is
It’s hard to believe that Camp Invention is almost over! CAMP INVENTION
Just one more day left after today, and look how much we
have created! By asking ourselves how and why things
T-SHIRT DAY!
work the way they do (or don’t), we have gained a wealth
of understanding about our world. Here’s what we tackled
today…
Reminder:
On Day Four in Ecoverse™, we continued to venture into Our highly-anticipated Inventors’ Showcase
the realm of fire and molten rock. After glimpsing what
program will take place this Friday at
types of tools volcanologists employ, we designed our own
lava and magma investigating gear. A series of erupting 2:45pm in the gymnasium. All family and
volcanoes required us to build rafts to flee to safety using friends are welcome and encouraged to
rocks created from lava quickly cooling above ground! come. The children are very anxious to
Safely arriving back on land, we earned our fire glyph and show you what they’ve been having fun
a giant tooth gave us a hint about our final day and creating and learning this week. Please
ultimate adventure.
join us in celebrating your child’s
In I Can Invent: Launchitude™ today, we filed a mock accomplishments!
patent and marketed our Duck Chucking Devices. We are
building, tweaking and preparing to test our inventions in
the ultimate Duck Chuck challenge tomorrow. Lots of EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER:
ducks are flying, but will they make it home? [555.555.5555]
On Day Four in Cache Dash™ we explored the
science of sand storms, hurricanes and
tsunamis. We generated solution ideas for
Question of the day…
changing a bicycle into an ideal sand storm QUESTION OF THE DAY
vehicle for Jeremiah in Sudan, a hurricane-
proof house for Eymi in Cuba and a turbo “What is the longest known cave system in
booster to get Jackson to higher ground if a the world?”
tsunami were to hit Maui, Hawaii. We each
selected one of these challenges and then Find the answer in tomorrow’s newsletter!
started building.
Today, in the Geo-Games™ module, we
connected our ability to creatively think up Answer to Yesterday’s Question: “What is a
and play games in new ways with our “Black Blizzard?” It was the name given to
expanding power to work together in teams to large dust storms during the 1930s when
play our best! Twist it, turn it, change it, play
it – we got moving and had fun!
soil in the Great Plains dried up and blew
across the East Coast and into the Atlantic
It sure was salty in Amazing Atlas™ today, when we Ocean.
visited the Dead Sea. Did you know that very salty water
can make objects float? We do! Inspired by examples of
how animals and plants that live in the ocean remove salt
from their bodies, we invented ultimate fantasy animals to
populate and bring life to the Dead Sea.