THE TRUE STORY OF NICKEL, The Baby Buffalo Who Thought He Was A Dog
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Thematic Teacher’s Guide: Math
By Nancy Savage and Andrea Krull, Jefferson County School District, Ralston Elementary
Patterns and Illustrations by Kathy Parks
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Make a Nickel bank (click here for pattern and instructions). Use paper or plastic nickels to add, subtract or multiply by fives. |
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Take a large sheet of butcher paper, a yardstick and ruler to measure the size of a real adult male bison.
Resource for size: Bison Bits #25 @ www.nickelbuffalo.com .
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30 bison can live on 750 acres. How many bison could live on 1500 acres? How many acres does one bison need? |
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Nickel ate 25# of grass daily. How much would he probably eat in a week? |
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Fill a two-liter pop bottle (Nickel’s first bottle) with water. Carefully pour it out into one cup containers. How many cups in two-liters? |
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Nickel was fed every two hours (page 9). How many bottles did he drink the first day? The first week? |
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How many dishes and bottles are in the sink on page 11? |
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The Denver Mountain Parks were created in 1913. How many years has the bison herd been there? |
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Hunt for solid shapes: cube (page 3), sphere (pages 3, 6, 11, 16) and cylinders (pages 3, 8, 9, 11, 15, 16, 17, 25, back cover), and cone (pages 5, 11). |
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Measure ingredients to PLAN A NICKEL PARTY! Recipes follow. |
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Use Jiffy Mix CORN MUFFINS. |
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Make FENCE-POST FRENCH TOAST: cut it into strips and arrange like a fence. |
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Nickel loved RHUBARB. Bring in cooked rhubarb to share. |
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Pour Nickel’s RANCH DRESSING over grassy greens. Dandelion garnish! |
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Measure water to make JELLO-JIGGLERS. Use letter cookie cutters to spell the names of the buffalo in Nickel’s herd. |
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Serve Nickel’s favorite drink, CREAM SODA, at the party: make Nickel floats—ice cream and cream soda! |
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Make buffalo NICKEL COOKIES (recipe follows). Count by dozens. Plan how many will fit on a baking sheet. |
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Recipe for NICKEL COOKIES: |
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2 oz. (2 squares) semi-sweet chocolate
3/4 c. sugar
1 T. milk
2-1/4 c. flour
3/4 c. or 1-1/2 sticks butter
1 egg
1 t. vanilla extract
1-1/2 t. baking powder
1/4 t. salt, 1-1/2 t. cinnamon, 1/2 t. allspice, 1/4 t. cloves, 1/4 t. nutmeg
Chocolate sprinkles
Melt chocolate over low heat in a small saucepan. Set aside. Cream butter and sugar together. Add egg, milk and vanilla extract and mix well. Sift together dry ingredients. Slowly add dry ingredients a little at a time until well blended. Divide dough in half. Wrap half in plastic wrap and chill for one hour. Slowly mix melted chocolate with remaining dough until well blended. Wrap chocolate dough in plastic wrap and chill one hour. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Roll dough out on a lightly floured surface to about 1/8" thick. Dip cookie cutter in flour and cut out Nickel cookies. Place cookies on ungreased cookie sheets. Sprinkle hump with chocolate sprinkles and pat lightly. Bake 8-10 minutes until lightly browned. Cool on racks. Enjoy! |
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