Additional Sand Sack Resources
Are you a homeschooler or a parent who helps in your child’s (childrens’) educational progress? Congratulations! And welcome to Sand Sack Knowledge Gateways.
Here you will discover the wealth of practical knowledge contained within the pages of Sand Sack. This free resource will help you to locate and reinforce those lessons woven throughout Sand Sack which you’d like to help your young Sand Sack reader grasp more fully. (For a brief introduction to Sand Sack, please visit the Sand Sack home page.
An example of BioFables’ 5-tier knowledge category structure:
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- 1. Core Disciplines: Sciences, Humanities, Values/Behaviors
- 2. Knowledge Gateways (Color-coded examples: Earth/Space Science, History, Ethics/Morals)
- 3. Discovery Paths (Example: Geology, a Discovery Path of Earth/Space Science)
- 4. Discovery Path Branches (Example: Geysers, a Discovery Path Branch of Geology)
- 5. Knowledge Nuggets: Titles of specific mini- or pop-up lessons (Example: Geyser ingredients)
- 4. Discovery Path Branches (Example: Geysers, a Discovery Path Branch of Geology)
- 3. Discovery Paths (Example: Geology, a Discovery Path of Earth/Space Science)
- 2. Knowledge Gateways (Color-coded examples: Earth/Space Science, History, Ethics/Morals)
- 1. Core Disciplines: Sciences, Humanities, Values/Behaviors
You and your young readers likely will be most interested in Tier 5, Knowledge Nuggets. The 5-tier structure will be helpful in tracing lessons back through the earlier tiers to their learning origins.
NOTE: Please be aware that tiers 2-5 are unique to each book; category names typically use words that children would understand (e.g. plants), rather than formal terminology (e.g. botany). In addition, the following lists and tables do not represent a complete list of Sciences, Humanities and Values/Behaviors categories, but rather those that specifically appear in Sand Sack.
Site Tips offers more insights into how you can use the tables, lists and other resources of this website to help you to help your children uncover the secrets of about 100 lessons scattered throughout each BioFables book.
The four sets of tables and lists on this page have been designed to help your children derive the greatest benefit from reading Sand Sack:
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- Sand Sack Overview: Sciences, Humanities, Values/Behaviors
- Sciences content in Sand Sack
- Humanities content in Sand Sack
- Values/Behaviors content in Sand Sack
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Sand Sack Overview
TABLE 1, Sand Sack Overview, is arranged chapter-by-chapter. It’s a good place to get a mental picture of the entire book, especially the chapter descriptions and links to additional resources (child-friendly links are in orange). This table incorporates the three Core Disciplines, their Knowledge Gateways and Discovery Paths (Tiers 1-3).
The rows in the left column of the table, highlighted in light green, show the Chapter number and the chapter’s pages; following the highlighted row is a quick chapter overview and occasional resource links to relevant sites for further investigation (links to child-friendly sites are in orange).
The right column rows, highlighted in light green, show the chapter’s title. The chapter’s color-coded Knowledge Gateways, with their associated Discovery Paths, appear beneath each chapter title.
TABLE 1. Sand Sack Overview: Sciences, Humanities and Values/Behaviors
| CHAPTER: Page Numbers; RESOURCE LINKS |
CHAPTER TITLES; Branches/Sub-Branches |
| Helpful Hints | |
| Indiana Dunes |
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| Chapter 1: Pages 1-4 |
A Tent Shaped Like an Igloo |
| Twins Melody and Mallory discover that their dome-shaped tent is made from big and small triangles. |
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| Chapter 2: Pages 5-11 |
Camping in the Sand |
| A clock has twelve hours, the year has twelve months: an easy way to remember the changing lengths of daytime, and the extremes of the solstice and equinox. |
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| Chapter 3: Pages 12-23 |
A Generations-Old Secret Uncovered |
| A “living” dune covers a long-buried sack and Rufus (good doggie) helps Mallory and his Dad dig it out. What do you think is in the sack? |
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| Chapter 4: Pages 24-26 |
How Do Sand Dunes Happen? |
| Glaciers scraping rocks grind them to sand; over time, winds blow the sand into hills (dunes). The Maloney family enjoys an ice cream treat for doing the right thing. |
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| Chapter 5: Pages 27-32 |
Spongy Ground and Bug-Eating Plants |
| Extremophile microbes can live in bogs, even with no oxygen available. Moss up to six feet thick covers the bog’s surface, making the boardwalk feel like you’re walking on a bouncy mattress. |
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| Chapter 6: Pages 33-38 |
Blowouts and Tree Graveyards |
| Mallory and his Dad learn that “tree graveyards” can be hollowed out areas with dry sand, or wet and marshy like the family saw in Yellowstone. |
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| Chapter 7: Pages 39-42 |
Learning about the Dunes (and even more about Human Nature) |
| After trading stories about what they learned about bogs and blowouts, the Maloney family learns how “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing” during the evening Park Ranger program. |
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| Chapter 8: Pages 43-46 |
Aches and Pains |
| Walking along the sandy beach made “music” (except for Rufus: soft paws). A day to take it easy after climbing the dunes. |
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| Chapter 9: Pages 47-51 |
A Rock is NOT a Stone |
| Mom writes a poem about singing sands; Mallory can’t resist the fascinating (heavy!) souvenir that he can examine more closely with the new magnifier his sister gave him. |
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| Next Adventure: Pages 52-54 |
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| The Maloney family discuss the rock cliffs they’ll visit next. Mallory and his Dad make a trip back to the State Park to learn the consequences of removing the nine-pound rock. |
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The Core Disciplines in Sand Sack LIST 1 are presented with their Knowledge Gateways and Discovery Paths (Tiers 1-3) in side-by-side columns. We’ve grouped each of the Knowledge Gateways and their Discovery Paths into Basic (foundational knowledge), Hybrid (relevant both to Basic and Applied Discovery Paths), and Applied (using basic or hybrid principles for practical, real-world purposes).
LIST 1. Sand Sack Overview: Sciences, Humanities and Values/Behaviors
| SCIENCES | HUMANITIES | VALUES/BEHAVIORS |
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BASIC
HYBRID
APPLIED
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BASIC
HYBRID
APPLIED
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BASIC
HYBRID
APPLIED
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The next three sets of lists and tables compile the Sciences, Humanities and Values/Behaviors content for the entire Sand Sack book. Bulleted lists of Knowledge Gateways, with their associated Discovery Paths, offer a quick glance at category tiers 1-3 appearing in Sand Sack. Their associated tables incorporate all 5 category tiers, including brief definitions of the Knowledge Gateways and instances of the specific Knowledge Nuggets (lessons) within each Core Discipline.
Sand Sack SCIENCES Core Discipline
Sand Sack List 2 is an at-a-glance bulleted list, offering a quick look at the Sciences Knowledge Gateways in bold, followed by their Discovery Paths that appear in Sand Sack.
Sand Sack LIST 2. SCIENCES Knowledge Gateways and Discovery Paths
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- Biology: Microbes/Bacteria; Plants; Animals; People
- Chemistry: Molecules; Elements; Reactions; Forms; Functions
- Physics: Heat and Temperature
- Earth, Space Science: Geography; Geology; Environment, Astronomy
- Math: Arithmetic; Geometry
- Technology: Physics (Mechanics; Optics)
- Engineering: Architecture (Physics; Math)
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Sand Sack TABLE 2 includes the major Sciences Knowledge Gateways (light green background) occurring in all the chapters of Sand Sack.
The left column shows each Knowledge Gateway and one or more associated Discovery Paths. Discovery Path Branches, where they occur, appear indented below the major Discovery Path. These branches (and sometimes sub-branches) are divisions of the major Discovery Path; they represent increasingly-specific fields.
The right column offers brief definitions of each Sciences Knowledge Gateway. Following each Knowledge Gateway are Knowledge Nuggets (mini- or pop-up lessons). These lessons correspond to the Discovery Path and any Discovery Path Branches that appear directly across in the the left column.
Sand Sack TABLE 2. SCIENCES Content
| KNOWLEDGE GATEWAYS |
KNOWLEDGE GATEWAYS: BRIEF DEFINITIONS |
| Discovery Paths. Discovery Path Branches |
Knowledge Nuggets: Mini- and Pop-up Lessons |
| BIOLOGY | Life and living things |
| Microbes/Bacteria | Bacteria that don’t need oxygen (anoxic)? Sure, those extremophiles living in bogs. {Ch. 5, p. 27} |
| Plants | Insect-eating plants get even by using insects for food {Ch. 4, p. 26; Ch. 5 p. 29; Ch. 7, p. 39; Ch. 9, pp. 50-51} |
| Don’t even try to walk directly on a bog (which is mostly sphagnum (peat) moss) {Ch. 5, pp. 27-29} | |
| Quaking bogs shiver and shake when someone walks over them on a boardwalk {Ch. 4, p. 26; Ch. 5, pp. 27-29; Ch. 9, p. 47} | |
| Animals | The food chain isn’t made of metal {Ch. 5, pp. 29-32} |
| People | The case for protecting eyes from the sun’s damaging rays {Ch. 2, p. 5} |
| Oh, my aching muscles {Ch. 3, p. 22; Ch. 8, p. 43} |
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| CHEMISTRY | Substances, their structure, behavior, interactions |
| Structure | Make round, 3-D shapes, such as geodesic domes, using only triangles with straight lines; similar chemical structures are called Bucky Balls {Ch. 1, pp. 2-3} |
| Function | pH: Bogs with sphagnum moss are acidic (pH 3-4) compared with water (pH 7) {Ch. 5, pp. 5-7} |
| PHYSICS | Properties and nature of matter and energy |
| Heat, Temperature | Water’s cooling effect: evaporation! {Ch. 6, p. 36} |
| EARTH, SPACE SCIENCE | Related to planet Earth and beyond |
| Geography | Continents, countries, oceans and other waters, and their features |
| Locations | Indiana Dunes, Mt. Baldy, Mississippi Palisades {Helpful Hints; Chs. 1-9; Ch. 10} |
| Geology | Earth’s physical structure, substance, history, processes |
| Glaciers | Melting ice masses (glaciers) scraped rock, creating sand {Ch. 4, p. 25} |
| Water table, bog | Bogs get their water only from rain, not underground rivers or the water table {Ch. 5, pp. 28-29} |
| Dunes | Living dunes move over time; they also sing and squeak {Helpful Hints; Ch. 2, pp. 8-9; Ch. 3, pp. 16-17; Ch. 9, pp. 47, 50-51} |
| Environment | Physical, chemical and biological conditions that impact people, animals, plants and microbes |
| Erosion |
Natural, human impact {Helpful Hints; Ch. 2, p. 9; Ch. 7, p. 40} |
| Habitats | People can preserve and restore natural homes of plants and animals {Ch. 7, p. 40} |
| Wind | Plants bend and dunes move with the direction of the wind {Helpful Hints; Ch. 2, pp. 8-9; Ch. 4, pp. 16-17; Ch. 4, p. 25; Ch. 6, pp. 33, 35; Ch. 9, p. 47} |
| Astronomy | Why is daylight so much longer in the summer than in the winter? {Ch. 2, pp. 6-8} |
| MATH | Numbers, quantities and analysis |
| Arithmetic | Counting, adding multiplying {Ch. 3, pp. 18-20} |
| Geometry | Can you arrange a bunch of triangles so they make a curve? {Ch. 1, pp. 1-3} |
| TECHNOLOGY | Tools (products) and techniques using science |
| Physics: Mechanics | Structures: Igloos, geodesic domes {Ch. 1, pp. 1-3} |
| Chemistry: Function | Fuel cells vs. gasoline for cars {Ch. 2, p. 5} |
| ENGINEERING | Application of technology |
| Architecture |
Building sand castles: Wet or dry sand works better? {Ch. 8, pp. 44-46} |
bSand Sack HUMANITIES Core Discipline
Sand Sack LIST 3 is an at-a-glance bulleted list. It offers a quick look at the Humanities Knowledge Gateways in bold, followed by their Discovery Paths that appear in Sand Sack.
Sand Sack LIST 3. Humanities Knowledge Gateways and Discovery Paths
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- Society: Government; Public Behavior
- Language: Sounds and Spelling; Word Derivations; Traditional Sayings; Classic Literature
- History: Times/Eras; Locations
- Health: Aging; FEAST; Physical
- Arts: Writing; Play on Words; Drawing; Creating, Building Things
- Life Skills: Planning Ahead; Safety, Security, Privacy; Avoiding Disease; Outdoors; Observing Surroundings
- Work/Careers; Role Models: Police Sergeant; Park Ranger
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Sand Sack TABLE 3 includes the major Humanities Knowledge Gateways (light green background) occurring in all the chapters of Sand Sack.
The left column shows each Knowledge Gateway and one or more associated Discovery Paths. Discovery Path Branches, where they occur, appear indented below the major Discovery Path. These branches (and sometimes sub-branches) are divisions of the major Discovery Path; they represent increasingly-specific fields.
The right column offers brief definitions of each Humanities Knowledge Gateway. Following each Knowledge Gateway are Knowledge Nuggets (mini- or pop-up lessons). These lessons correspond to the Discovery Path and any Discovery Path Branches that appear directly across in the the left column.
Sand Sack TABLE 3. HUMANITIES Content
| KNOWLEDGE GATEWAYS | KNOWLEDGE GATEWAYS: BRIEF DEFINITIONS |
| Discovery Paths, Discovery Path Branches |
Knowledge Nuggets; Pop-up Lessons |
| SOCIETY |
Community, Culture and People |
| Government |
Local police sergeant locks found items in a vault until owner is located, signs official statement {Ch. 3, p. 20} |
| Public Behavior |
Park rangers respond to impolite guest {Ch. 7, pp. 40-42} |
| LANGUAGE | Means of communication |
| Sounds and Spelling | 4 N 6? Mallory didn’t understand either! Forensics {Ch. 3, p. 18} |
| Melody learns that animals prey on each other, not pray {Ch. 5, p. 32} |
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| Word Derivations | Sol and stice (Latin) sun stopped (longest and shortest days); Equi equal and nox night (Latin) {Ch. 2, p. 7} |
| Vernal (Latin) the spring season {Ch. 2, p. 8} | |
| Forensics (Latin) forum {Ch. 3, p. 18} |
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| Traditional Sayings | Dad says, “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse” {Ch. 2, p. 8} |
| “Nobody learns when they’re talking, only when they’re listening” {Ch. 7, p. 41} | |
| “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing” {Ch. 7, p. 42} | |
| “Where there’s life, there’s hope” (for improvement) {Ch. 7, p. 42} | |
| “Everyone out of the pool” What if there’s no pool? {Ch. 8, p. 45} | |
| “Finders keepers, losers weepers” mostly doesn’t apply {Ch. 9, p. 47} | |
| Classic Literature | Dad compliments Mallory, calls him Sherlock {Ch. 6, p. 35} |
| HISTORY | Information about the past |
| Times/Eras | Buried treasure, lost since the Great Depression {Ch. 37, pp. 14, 17; Ch. 9, p. 51} |
| Locations | The role glaciers played in forming Indiana Dunes {Ch. 4, p. 25} |
| HEALTH | Level of well-being |
| Aging | Grandpa realizes his excess weight and little exercise is limiting his activities {Ch. 1, pp. 3-4} |
| FEAST | The twins remember Mom’s Food Exercise Attitude Sleep Timing philosophy {Ch. 1, p. 4} |
| Physical | Sunglasses protect eyes from sun’s damaging effect {Ch. 2, p. 5} |
| Going to bed at the same time is healthy, but not much fun when it’s still light outside {Ch. 2, p. 6} | |
| Muscles feel sore the day after unaccustomed exercise {Ch. 8, p. 43} | |
| ARTS | Creative skills and their expression |
| Writing | Mom’s poem is “almost as good as Dad’s”? “We all have poems in us,” Mom says {Ch. 9, p. 47} |
| Play on Words | Getting the family’s black labrador to wear sunglasses would make quite a spectacle {Ch. 2, p. 5} |
| “Vernal means spring, and it’s time to SPRING into bed,” Mom says {Ch. 2, p. 8} | |
| Man-eating or boy-eating plants? {Ch. 7, p. 39} | |
| Drawing | Drawing a geodesic dome tent helps to remember its shape {Ch. 1, p. 2} |
| Sergeant shows how something buried near the base of a sand dune can be lost over time as winds cause the sand to shift {Ch. 3, pp. 16-17} | |
| Ranger Ted draws a simple food chain for Melody {Ch. 5, p. 31} | |
| Dad draws dunes holding four colored pencils together {Ch. 8, p. 44} | |
| Creating, Building Things | Mom creates a clock calendar with each number representing a month and stickers to represent the four seasons {Ch. 2, pp. 7-8} |
| A sand castle challenge. Who will build the winner? {Ch. 8, pp. 44-46} | |
| LIFE SKILLS | Practical abilities for attending to everyday needs |
| Planning Ahead | Setting up a new tent before a camping trip {Ch. 1, pp. 1-3} |
| Safety, Security, Privacy | Sergeant agrees to Dad’s request for no publicity on the discovery for himself and his family {Ch. 3, p. 21} |
| Avoiding Disease | A Ranger assures Mom that local squirrels don’t carry rabies, but bats and woodchucks do {Ch. 5, p. 31} |
| Outdoors | Mallory wants to compare a Dunes tree graveyard with the one that the family saw at Yellowstone {Ch. 4, p. 26; Ch. 6} |
| Mallory discovers his map-reading skills {Ch. 6, p. 33} | |
| Observing Surroundings | Bushes snag Rufus’s leash, giving Mallory a chance to look around {ch. 6, p. 34-35} |
| WORK/CAREERS; ROLE MODELS |
Productive activity to earn an income or give back to society |
| Police Sergeant | Sergeant at a local police station {Ch. 3, pp. 15-28, Ch. 9, p. 49; Ch. 10, p. 53} |
| Park Ranger | Park Rangers have many differet roles indoors and outdoors {Ch. 4, pp. 25-26; Ch. 5, pp. 27-32; Ch. 7, pp. 40-42; Ch. 9, pp. 48, 50} |
Sand Sack VALUES/BEHAVIORS Core Discipline
Sand Sack LIST 4 is an at-a-glance bulleted list. It offers a quick look at the Self Knowledge Gateways in bold, followed by their Discovery Paths that appear in Sand Sack.
Sand Sack LIST 4. Values/Behaviors Discovery Paths and Knowledge Branches
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- Morals/Ethics: Honesty/Truth; Doing the Right Thing
- Emotions: Sense of Humor; Calm Reasoning; Competitiveness; Impetuousness; Awareness of Consequences; Serenity; Need for Recognition
- Mind: Reasoning; Intuition; Sense of Wonder; Visualization
- Body: Aging Well; Physical Health
- Learning/Knowledge/Skills: Acquiring Knowledge; Analytical Thinking; Sharing Knowledge; Eliciting Knowledge
- People: Parental Responsibility; Judgmental; Concern for Others; Respect; Proper Assertiveness; Hospitality; Generosity
- Planet: Research; Erosion; Respect for Earth, All Things Living on It
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Sand Sack TABLE 4 includes the major Values/Behaviors Knowledge Gateways (light green background) occurring in all the chapters of Sand Sack.
The left column shows each Knowledge Gateway and one or more associated Discovery Paths. Discovery Path Branches, where they occur, appear indented below the major Discovery Path. These branches (and sometimes sub-branches) are divisions of the major Discovery Path; they represent increasingly-specific fields.
The right column offers brief definitions of each Values/Behaviors Knowledge Gateway. Following each Knowledge Gateway are Knowledge Nuggets (mini- or pop-up lessons). These lessons correspond to the Discovery Path and any Discovery Path Branches that appear directly across in the the left column.
Sand Sack TABLE 4. VALUES/BEHAVIORS Content
| KNOWLEDGE GATEWAYS | KNOWLEDGE GATEWAYS: BRIEF DEFINITIONS |
| Discovery Paths. Discovery Path Branches |
Knowledge Nuggets: Mini and Pop-up Lessons |
| MORALS/ETHICS |
Internal character, beliefs |
| Honesty/Truth | Mallory shows Mom and Dad why the rock was so interesting {Ch. 9, p. 49} |
| Doing the Right Thing | Dad tells Mallory they need to report his discovery to the local authorities {Ch. 9, p. 49} |
| Mom says “finders keepers losers weepers” doesn’t apply {Ch. 9, p. 49} | |
| Dad will be discussing Mellory’s “heist” of the 9 lb rock with the Dunes’ police sergeant {Ch. 10, p. 53} | |
| EMOTIONS | Feelings, sentiment, intuition |
| Sense of Humor | Dad teases Mom about her advice to get more exercise {Ch. 1, p. 4} |
| Mallory and Dad are happy that dogs don’t talk {Ch. 3, p. 22} | |
| Calm Reasoning | Jumbled thoughts at first prevent Dad’s calm reasoning about what to do with Mallory’s unexpected “find” {Ch. 3, p. 14} |
| Mallory’s questions bring Dad’s jumbled thoughts back to reality {Ch. 3, p. 14} | |
| Competitiveness | Melody and Mallory both feel that their sibling knows something they don’t |
| Generosity | Mallory gives his sister an interesting rock she can use as a pencil holder {Ch. 7, p. 39} |
| The Maloney family enjoy’s Grandpa’s gifts of short monthly outings to celebrate the twins’ 7th birthdays {Ch. 4, p. 24} | |
| Impetuousness | Mallory races after Rufus, who bolts from his leash {Ch. 6, p. 34} |
| Awareness of Consequences | Mallory knows he’s in trouble when Dad finds the rock {Ch. 9, p. 48} |
| Serenity | Dad enjoys resting and enjoying the surroundings while Mallory cools off in moist sand {Ch. 3, p. 12} |
| Need for Recognition | A visitor rudely interrupts the park’s rangers program {Ch. 7, pp. 40-41} |
| MIND | Rational, theoretical, analytical thinking |
| Reasoning | Mallory wonders how something round can be made up with just straight lines {Ch. 1, pp. 2-3} |
| Mallory compares the dunes’ “tree graveyards” with Yellowstone’s, discovers dry and swampy kinds at the dunes {Ch. 6} | |
| Mallory remembers that wet sand stays together; good for building sand castles {Ch. 8, p. 45} | |
| Intuition | Grandpa’s mention of unexpected wind leads Melody to think Grandpa knows more than he lets on {Ch. 1, p. 1} |
| Dad suspects what’s in the canvas sack that Mallory found buried in the sand {Ch 3, p. 13} | |
| Sense of Wonder | Melody and her brother wonder how the dunes got there {Ch. 4, pp. 24-25} |
| Visualization | Melody thinks a food chain is a chain made out of food {Ch. 6, pp. 31-32} |
| BODY | Health, bodily strengh and movement |
| Aging Well | Grandpa knows he wouldn’t be able to climb dunes or be comfortable sleeping in a tent {Ch. 1, p. 3} |
| Overall Health | Mom’s “FEAST” is an easy path to good health {Ch. 1, p. 4} |
| Exercise helps pump oxygen to your brain {Ch. 2, p. 9} | |
| LEARNING/KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS |
Pursuit and acquisition of understanding, wisdom, capabilities |
| Acquiring Knowledge | Mallory is impressed by the police seargent’s reasoning {Ch. 3, pp 15-18} |
| Melody learns that bacteria can live in oxygen-less bogs {Ch. 5, p. 27} | |
| Mom and Dad encourage constant observing and learning {Ch. 7, p. 42} | |
| Analytical Thinking | The police sergeant suspects why the canvas sack was buried in the dune {Ch. 3, p. 15} |
| While Melody’s reasoning about bogs and water tables wasn’t quite right, she learns some new facts {Ch. 5, pp. 27-29} | |
| Sharing Knowledge | Grandpa says an igloo-shaped tent is more stable than other designs {Ch. 1, p. 1} |
| Mom uses a clock and stickers to explain solstice {Ch. 2, pp. 7-8} | |
| Mom and Dad explain how glaciers and wind made sand dunes {Ch. 4, p. 25} | |
| Melody learns from Ranger Lisa what makes a bog a bog {Ch. 5, pp. 27-29} | |
| Mom and Dad help their twins understand human nature and how to react in certain situations {Ch. 7, pp. 40-42} | |
| Mom tells Melody that different ways of writing poems help to understand your feelings {Ch. 9, p. 48} | |
| Eliciting Knowledge | Mom shows the twins how to look at their tent’s design {Ch. 1, p. 2} |
| Mom’s and Dad’s questions help understand how dunes become “living” {Ch. 2, p. 9} | |
| Dad helps Mallory figure out how trees died in the sand dunes {Ch. 6, pp. 33, 35-37} | |
| PEOPLE | Regard for, and relationships with, humankind |
| Parental Responsibility | “The reward is in doing the right thing,” Mallory’s Dad says when the sergeant suggests a reward {Ch 3, pp. 22-23} |
| Oops. Dad forgets about poor Rufus in the hot car {Ch. 3, pp. 21-22} | |
| Mom agrees with Dad’s privacy request to the sergeant {Ch. 4, p. 24} | |
| Mom encourages sharing reward, rather than competing, to making the biggest, best sand castle {Ch. 8, p. 45} | |
| Dad confronts Mallory about the big rock {Ch. 9, pp. 48-49} | |
| Judgmental Attitude | Mom says not to be critical when people’s choices may be different from your own {Ch. 1, p. 4} |
| Melody softly calls her Dad and brother “wimps” when the dune gets too hot for them…but Mom hears {Ch. 2, pp. 10-11} | |
| Concern for Others | Dad hopes Grandpa would take better care of his health {Ch. 1, p. 3} |
| Mom asks Dad how Mallory and Rufus are doing {Ch. 3, p. 21} | |
| Respect | Mom thanks Ranger Lisa and moves on, noticing other guests waiting to learn about the bog {Ch. 5, p. 29} |
| Proper Assertiveness | An attendee at the park ranger program addresses a rude visitor {Ch. 7, p. 41} |
| Gratitude | Mallory thanks the sergeant for free ice cream coupons {Ch. 3, p. 21} |
| Mom is touched that Grandpa selected a nearby place that is (kind of) similar to where she grew up {Ch. 10, p. 52-53} | |
| Hospitality | Grandpa invites the Maloneys to dinner, and they bring Grandpa his own portable “salad garden” to grow his own healthy greens {Ch. 9, pp. 49-50} |
| Generosity | Mallory gives his sister a small rock with holes the right size for pencils {Ch. 7, p. 39} |
| Melody asks for an extra magnifier to give to her brother to investigate bugs and things {Ch. 7, p. 40} | |
| Mississippi Palisades is the site of Grandpa’s next monthly mini-vacation gift {Ch. 10, p. 52-53} | |
| PLANET | Earth’s natural environment: living organisms, water, surface, subsurface, atmosphere |
| Research | The Maloneys drive their new experimental fuel car to the Indiana Dunes {Ch. 2, p. 5} |
| Erosion | Walking on dunes causes sand to tumble down {Ch. 2, p. 9; Ch. 7, p. 40} |
| Respect for Earth, All Things Living on It | Melody comforts a squirrel that escapes being lunch for a hawk {Ch. 5, pp. 30-31} |
| Melody changes her mind and agrees squirrels shouldn’t be kept in cages as pets {Ch. 5, p. 32} |
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