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Volume 4, Issue 4 • January 2020
Adventure Club
Calendar
9: School board work
session, 5 p.m., district
office
16: School board meets,
6 p.m., Baker City Hall
20: Martin Luther King
Jr. Day. No school
Current Resident
I
n a clatter of plastic
parts, Jacob and Weston
Burton rummage
through their bin of Legos to
find just the right piece.
Nearby, Marquesa Peterson
works on a wind turbine and
Jessica Warbis builds a water
tank from a box and alumi-
num foil.
Their mission: build a
space colony on Mars or the
moon.
Seven other groups of stu-
dents are tackling the same
project utilizing more boxes,
styrofoam, foil, plastic wrap,
aluminum cans, bottles and
tape.
Lots and lots of tape.
Adventure Club is a new
program at South Baker
Intermediate School. Fourth-
grade teacher Kristin Schwin
applied for a grant from
the Baker Valley Education
Foundation to fund supplies
and field trips. Friday Plus
funds supplement the cost of
transportation and snacks.
The club is comprised of
25 students from grades 4 to
6 who were recommended by
his or her classroom teacher.
"Every classroom is repre-
sented here," Schwin said.
The program meets every
Tuesday after school and the
The team of Zea Young, Henry Gaslin, David Kerns and Nolan Briels work to build their version
of a space colony during a meeting of Adventure Club at South Baker Intermediate School.
occasional Friday. Luke Bur-
ton is assisting Schwin.
Students spent the first
three weeks studying flight.
David Kerns especially liked
putting new knowledge to the
test with paper airplanes.
"We tried to see how far
you could fly it and if you
could get it through a target,"
he said.
That unit culminated with
a trip to the Warhawk Air
Museum in Nampa and the
National Interagency Fire
Center in Boise.
The Astronomy unit began
in early November with a
solar system escape room.
Burton helped students set
up dome tents as their space
pods, then the teams of four
had to race to answers ques-
tion to move up a level and
eventually "escaping" their
pod.
Prior to constructing a
space colony, Burton intro-
duced the students to types of
space travel and encouraged
kids to think about what type
of space exploration could
happen in their lifetime.
To build a colony, each
team addressed the factors
of gravity, oxygen, food,
soil, water, medicine, recre-
ation — everything needed to
survive in a hostile environ-
ment.
Future units will include
tracking animal footprints
and mapping wolf popula-
tions, studying fish (with a
dissection), and birding.
Schwin hopes to end the
program with an overnight
stay at OMSI in Portland.
"I've been wanting to do it
forever," she said.
