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Novel Connections:

• Link to a site with environmental learning ideas
• Link to a site with survival ideas and activities and lyrics to a song
• Link to an ecology site with food chain ideas to pull into the novel
• Link to a site with author information and a novel summary

• Explore the food chain and the food web
• Investigate prey/predator relationships
• Research geological maps
• Investigate the taxidermy business, see if you can get a guest speaker to come and explain to the kids what taxidermy is all about
• The novel mentions having your own cabin, what would you do with your own cabin?
• Spinner recalls that Aunt Mary is a person of many persons, what does this mean to you? Do you know people that fit this description?
• Owl pellet research similar to investigating the insects found in a given area of the stream - or research your own stream
• Explore life cycles
• Research different species of trout
• Study hydromechanics and how it contributes to the diamond shaped spacing of the fish
• This is a true story of survival, do you think you could have survived as Spinner or as Al/Alligator?

Vocabulary Words and animals to consider while reading . . .