February
Project Options
Snowshoe Scavenger Hunt Take-home Project: Option 1                                                   Due in March
Snowshoes are a great way to explore and enjoy winter, and the scavenger hunt gave us an excuse to open our eyes and look around while we were outside.  Make a blank scavenger hunt sheet, go for a winter walk, and write down/draw what you find as you walk (or when you get back inside, if it's too cold to write!). 

Snowshoe Scavenger Hunt Take-home Project: Option 2                                                   Due in March
Do an experiment with feet (don't worry, they'll be wearing shoes, so they hopefully won't be too smelly!).  Find at least 3 different sized shoes that can be out in the snow.  They don't have to fit you.  (Ex- you could put your toes in a smaller sibling's shoe and walk tiptoe, wear your mom's old high heels (get her permission first!), wear your winter boots, wear the biggest winter boots you can find in your house, or even wear swimming fins.)  Wear one set of shoes and walk normally in an open patch of snow.  Wear another pair of shoes right beside the set of tracks you just made, and so on.  Make sure the snow type is the same for each set of tracks- make sure it's not packed/fluffy for one set of tracks if it's not packed/fluffy in another, and make sure the same person wears all shoe types.  Measure the depths of the footprints in the snow, and compare that to the surface area of the bottom of the shoe.  Did the smaller shoes always go into the snow more than the larger shoes?  Is there anything else that could have affected how deep the footprints went into the snow?  Write down your observations and all your data, then make a conclusion.
 

Extras
A bit late, but here is the winter scavenger hunt we completed during class.