Having trouble viewing the video? Click here. Mountain to Climb: Navigators, your mountain to climb this week is to calculate how much water you and your family use on a daily basis, then come up with a detailed action plan that you can follow to help limit the amount of water you waste. Seeking the Peak: Use this Water Usage Conversion
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Having trouble viewing the video? Click here. Mountain to Climb: Lake Champlain is under attack from algae blooms! Navigators, your Mountain to Climb this week is to demonstrate how big of a problem algae blooms are. If you start out with a 3 foot-by-3 foot square of algae on the lake, calculate how large it will get in one day.
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Having trouble viewing the video? Click here. Mountain to Climb: Navigators, pretend you live in the early 1600s and you want a beaver fur hat for you and your family of four people. Use the trading documents in the Seeking the Peak resources to figure out all of the possible ways to trade for enough beaver pelts. Seeking the Peak:
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Having trouble viewing the video? Click here. Mountain to Climb: Navigators, you have three things to figure out about our road trip: How far (how many miles) did we travel in total? How long did the entire trip take us? If we began at 7:08am, what time did we end our journey? Seeking the Peak: Hey Navigators, we think that most
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Having trouble viewing the video? Click here. Mountain to Climb: Navigators, help Mr. C figure out the math puzzle that his Snickerdoodle Recipe is written in. Make sure you find out the amount of each ingredient he needs! Seeking the Peak: SnickerdoodleRecipe To figure out part of the recipe, you may need to find the Least Common Multiple. For more information
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Welcome to Portal Peak At its heart, Portal Peak is a place for students and classrooms from around the globe to engage in collaborative problem solving in real life, authentic contexts. Each week a new “Portal” opens up, transporting students into a new exploration. It might be a historical battlefield or inside a recording studio, but wherever the portal opens
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