State the problem that is a power point so you can see the different steps of science. We burned different materials to see what would burn the longest. The materials were, tire, plastic, wood and play-doh. Tire burned the longest, plastic for 2nd wood for 3rd and play-doh didn’t burn. We took all the data and we were going to make a tri-fold board. When we made a tri- fold board, we took all the scientific steps in a power-point and printed them out. We took some pictures and got some examples too. You should always be careful with fire, keep that in mind. We had adult supervision who were legal pyrotechnics. Smoke from fire has the possibility of getting you cancer, so be careful. if we were going to do the experiment differently I wish we had more time. We barely even got it finished.
Leave a commentWhen the dragon king returned home, one of his guards told him that he had heard a rumor. The villagers in his son Chris’s city were annoyed because he never paid attention. Although Chris lived in a remote part of the country, the dragon king once again donned his disguise and made his way to his home. As he approached, a servant came running from the house. “Oh most revered king!” cried the servant. “The twenty-seventh son does nothing all day but zone out and read!” “This does not seem befitting for a son of a king!” several people nearby nodded. The dragon king marched in the house and was about to scold his son but then he had an idea. Chris could use his focus to be a great artist. When he told Chris this he was very excited.
And to this day, you may still see the great artwork of Chris.
Here is a link to the official dragon king story: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/569937.The_Sons_of_the_Dragon_King
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KA-BOOM!!! What in the world?!? I was asleep in my bedroom, and right in the middle of a GREAT dream, I didn’t know WHAT was going on. I got out of my bed in Smokejumper base. I ran in the living room, and said “what’s going on!?” one of the other smokejumpers (Jim) replied: “another fire! Lightning strike judging from the sound, and… uh why are you in boxers?” I said: “I was asleep! Give me a break!” “I’ll go suit up!” So I ran in my room and started gearing up, I put my bright yellow fire-resistant shirt and green pants. Oh! I almost forgot! I should introduce myself, I’m Chris, I used to live in Kansas but I moved to Colorado to help fight the fires in Yellowstone national park. I’m 26 years old. Anyway, I was putting my gear on including my jumpsuit and my packs of water. We all put our parachutes on as we heard the plane starting up. Once everyone had their gear on, we started loading in the plane. After everyone was on we took off. It took nearly 30 minutes. The whole way there, no one said a word. When we got there, we were circling the fire, it was HUGE. Our captain( Tim), the leader of our platoon, The Phoenix Platoon to be precise, was briefing us with the plan. After we were sure everyone knew the backup route we got ready to jump. Jim went first, and then me and then, the other 3 guys: Aaron, Noah, and Cole. And at last, Tim, our crew leader. We brought radios to keep in touch. I felt the fire before I could see it, with all the smoke and what not. I was alone in the drop zone with Cole, he was my partner. Tim the leader is partnered up with Aaron, and Jim the new recruit is partnered up with Noah. Me & Cole started on a fire line, but before we could even start I heard a creaking, I yelled: COLE! GET OUT OF THE WAY!” at the last second I dived in and pushed him from being crushed by a burning tree. After that nice little scene, we got back to making the fire line, the inferno was spreading QUICK. A few minutes passed which seemed like HOURS, a care package dropped and we continued to make the fire line. Cole went over to the care package and unpacked it. I contact Jim and Noah and say: “Hey! is Jim there?” “Yeah your talking to him” he replied I say: “we have our care package and we are setting it up” he says: “Okay, and Tim says we need to make camp” “Okay Roger that” we had got the fire line all done, and we were calling in the choppers to help with the fire retardant. I said: “this is Chris, can we get some air support?” “this is Apache 2 I repeat this is Apache 2, we are sending 4 choppers with water and fire retardant” “alright man, thanks” “no problem” then I could see above the horizon, 4 helicopters. They came and dumped their water and fire retardant. It completely washed away just about ALL the flames. Then we went in the forest and used are hoses to wash away what was still alive of the fire. Then we went back to our safe zone, and we got some rest. I dozed off faster than I thought. The next morning we were all together. We felt the ground with our hands to see what all we missed. It seemed like FOREVER. Then Tim called the choppers to come pick us up. But when we were loading up, Aaron had something to say… “I’m sorry guys… I can’t live like this” Jim says: “what are you talking about Aaron? Get in the chopper your making it worse! “no I can’t go on with my life anymore” “NO Aaron DON’T!” Jim shouted. But it was too late. Aaron got his machete out and slit his throat. Everybody broke some tears, Aaron was our friend. Then we picked up Aaron’s body and took it in the chopper, the Phoenix squad never left a man behind. We were flying back to the base and-KARINGGGG the sound of metal scraping together. We were going down! The pilot was screaming: MAYDAY! MAYDAY! WERE GOING DOWN! …it all went so fast all I remember was the panicked look on Jim’s face, I heard someone screaming, and not knowing it was my own scream… my whole life flashed before me. Then everything went dark. I woke up in a forest, everything was blurry, and at first I thought I was dead, but then I see some metal crash on Cole…NO! then I saw Noah helping me up. I said: “all these people… dead… Cole had a family, it’s sad.” I know” Noah said. Noah said: “I have to go find help, you guys stay here.” “ok” so off he went, in the woods. A whole day passed me and Jim praying for him to come back. Noah came with an ambulance and food and water. By the time he got back, Jim’s injury was serious, he got air lifted. I went with him, but before I did… where was Tim? I was looking for him and when I came across the helicopter… “NO!” he was dead, blood everywhere. I went in the helicopter to go with Jim. They said he needed major surgery. They said he would have to be in a wheel chair the rest of his life. I felt sorry for him. After his surgery was over we went in the mess hall and had a few laughs. We caught up. My family was dead, so I was going to go live with them. Then we went to Tim and Aaron’s funeral. It was real sad. Some of my best friends…dead. But then I went to live Jim and his family.
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I am a sled dog named Frosty. I was on the great serum delivery, and boy you would not believe how difficult it was. Here, I will explain. It all started out when I was sleeping in my kennel, and my owner came in, and said “we gonna go race boy!” well I just LIVE for racing, well besides treats. It is my favorite thing ever. He said then, “this is no regular race boy, this is serious, people might die” and I thought “uh oh this IS serious” so that night my owner: Gunnar, the 20th musher started packing up for a journey, he got all the other dogs awake and ready and gave everybody treats, including me, oh and did I mention I LIVE for treats? I absolutely LOVE treats. He got some strange looking bottle and put it in the sled, he must of saw me staring because he came over and told me what it was, now I can understand some English but he said something called a “medicine” I’m not exactly sure what that means but later on I learned it was the like the word serum. Which is a kind of life saving thing. Then Gunnar yelled for all the dogs to hook on the sled reigns. Then we took off, it was a hard journey. The snow was everywhere, there was blizzards too. Think of the whitest thing you’ve ever seen, now multiply that by 10. That’s how I felt. At one point we crashed be cause we hit some bumps and some dogs tripped, the serum went flying. I thought right then Nome was doomed, but after the dogs recovered it was 45 minutes before Gunnar found it. By the time we finally got there 5 were people dead. It was sad, but in the end we saved lives.
Leave a commentOne time two friends (Billy & Bob) were going to try out for soccer. These boys absolutely loved soccer and they couldn’t wait to try out. They played soccer every year and they thought they were ready for competitive (and believe me they were good) they got to the assigned field and started practicing. Then the coach told everyone to line up. Everyone did.
He started going down the line telling the other people to kick in the goal. And then everyone had to show their tricks and fake-outs. Finally he was about to announce the names of the kids he wanted on his team. Billy and Bob were exited! Coach Jim started naming the names “Tim, Nick, Bob, Joe, Robby, Chris, and that’s it people, practice is on Monday. Billy says : “What!” That’s it!! Said Billy. Bob said “Sorry man, maybe you will make it next year” “I guess” Billy says. They go & get some ice cream at DQ. They try to think of a way Billy could get on the team. Bob suggested they could do some tricks and show off. They decided that they would try that. And then they went home and to bed.
The next day they went to go to Bob’s soccer practice to show the coach Billy’s moves. They show him and he says: “Young man I am not to be bribed!” “ok….” Says: Billy. “I will not change my mind!” says the coach.
They went to DQ to rethink their strategy. They decided it was just meant to be that Billy wasn’t going to be on the team this year.
Billy went to Bob’s game that weekend to cheer him on, then all the sudden when he was watching the game, someone got tripped and they broke their collarbone. The coach was yelling “NOO”!! The team would have to forfit because they didn’t have enough players anymore. The coach saw Billy and said: “you wanna help boy” “umm yes sir” said Billy. “then come sub for Nick!” the coach said. “you mean the kid who broke a bone?” “YES THE KID WHO BROKE A BONE, now get over here!!” then Billy played with Bob in the game and they won. ”Good job kid” says: Coach. “ Jim Thank you sir” says: Billy.
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