Rabbits, May 19

Themes Explored:

• bird song

• skipping/hopping and balance

• knots/zipline principles

• fort building

• catapult science and trajectory

• felting

• kitchen with found natural materials

Skills Embraced:

• tying the overhand knot, tying the sheet bend

• making a ladder with knots (we'll learn that one next!)

• problem solving; how to make the projectile shoot higher/farther

• problem solving: how to get up to the zipline start

Connection Questions:

What do you need to make a zipline work?

What can you do with the catapult to make the projectile go higher?

What new things are growing on the Bluff?