Page 250 - Welcome, Refugees from Ember!
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Activities
Worksheet - Choosing Correct Meanings http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading52/correct_meanings.htm
The Wild Ride
What is the author describing on page 241? - Columns of rock hung down from it, and columns of rock rose from the water, too, making long shadows that turned and mingled as the boat floated among them. They glimmered in the candlelight, pink and pale green and silver. Their strange lumpy shapes looked like something soft that had frozen - like towers of mashed potatoes, Lina thought, that had hardened to stone.
The photos below were taken on a fieldtrip to Bristol Caverns.
The Virtual Cave http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/
http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/staltite/staltite.html
http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/stalmite/stalmite.html
Stalactites and Stalagmites
In caves you will see rock formations that hang down from the ceiling and reach up from the ground. These are called Stalactites and Stalagmites but how can you remember which is which?
Try this:
stalagmite - stalactite = ground and ceiling
Stalactites drop from the ceiling and stalagmites rise up from the ground.
Craft Idea - Make your own stalactites and stalagmites
Supplies
shoebox
supplies to decorate the shoebox to look like a cave such as rocks, construction paper, glue
cotton string (kite string)
2 pint-sized glass jars
20 Mule Team Borax Laundry Booster
Take a shoebox. Turn the shoebox onto its side and decorate the inside to look like the inside of a cave.
Punch a hole into each side of the box about one-third of the way down from the top large enough for the string to loosely slide through the holes.
Run a string from one side of the "cave" to the other going through the punched out holes. The string should be long enough to hang out of the shoebox approximately ten inches on each side of the box.
Next fill two pint jars with boiling water. Add three tablespoons of Borax for each cup of water.
Place one end of the string into each jar.
The string will soak up the water and drip into the box leaving crystal stalactites and stalagmites inside your "cave".
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Generations
Page 252 - And maybe their great-great-great-grandchildren will be there to welcome us.
How many generations is "great-great-great-grandchildren"?
This is the year 241. Suppose each parent was 25 years old when they had their children. How many generations would have passed since the time Ember was built?
Could the statement "And maybe their great-great-great-grandchildren will be there to welcome us." correct? Why or why not?
Refugees
What does it tell us about Ember for the Builders to refer to the citizens of Ember as refugees?
