UE Classroom Chronicles Edition 1 May 21, 2021 Space Race: The USSR took the lead launching Hunters in the Sky the un-manned spacecraft known by: Jackson Griffin USA vs USSR as “Luna.” The first man-made by: Colin Dignan object on the moon was Luna 2; Who would have thought that the first spacecraft to carry High stakes go to a high place! birds of prey can differ so greatly humans to the moon was Apollo from each other? Birds of prey The space race was a race during 11. the Cold War. It was a race to have advanced hunting techniques that help them to space! The Cold War was a time The USSR cleared the first when political relations between survive. They have slight important hurdles. They anatomical differences or the US and USSR were tense, successfully landed the first man- extremely tense. The space race adaptations to help them survive made object on the moon (Luna and have a successful hunt. was about the USSR and US racing 2). They also took the first to get a spacecraft on the moon. pictures of the far side of the “With their hooked beaks, Kennedy set a challenge to land a moon (Luna 3) and the first soft curved talons, and superb human on the moon because the landing on the moon (Luna 9). eyesight, eagles, and birds of USSR had beat the US to get a The USSR launched Luna 10 as prey are born to kill” machine on the moon. During the well, which orbited the moon. The -David Burnie space race the USSR launched a machines in the space race took spacecraft named Luna. The way that birds of prey hunt is the lead, though the humans were important to understand how they about to catch up with the Apollo live. Some most common forms of spacecraft mission. hunting are still hunting, scavenging, and fishing. Most The Apollo missions were trying to raptors in wooded areas “still land humans on the moon. Apollo hunt”. They sit on a perch and 1 was a catastrophic failure which watch until prey comes near them caused three astronauts to, sadly, and then catch and kill it with pass away. This was a huge their claws. setback for the Apollo program. Still, the Apollo missions continued. Apollo 8 were the first humans to directly see the far side of the moon through their The space race was a race spacecraft. Apollo 10 tested between the USSR and the US. everything apart from the The space race was when the landing. Apollo 11, was the first USSR and US tried to complete spacecraft to land a human on the important space goals before the moon. other. Spirit Week – “That’s one small step for man, Tuesday, June 1st one giant leap for mankind.” Twin Tuesday - Dress like a -Neil Armstrong friend from your class. Page 1 Continued on Next Page Edition 1 May 21, 2021 Many raptors in open country Things You Might Not areas hunt by flying high above You also don’t want a wheel that's the ground, watching it till they Know About too big or too small. If they have spot prey and then they swoop Hamsters a wheel that's too small they will down to catch it. Ospreys and fish by: Jane Jarvis badly hurt their spine. If it’s too eagles are perfectly adapted to big the wheel won’t turn as well catch fish. Their talons are curved If you don't know what hamsters and the hamster won’t get enough more than other birds of prey. are, they are small rodents with exercise. They fly high above the water to over 20 different species in the spot the fish, then swoop down. hamster family. Wild hamsters Would You Want to are found in Europe and Asia. Vultures are scavengers, and fly They have a very short life span Live Without Bees? by: Elena Calsyn high around the area to spot of 2 - 3 years. Yes, they can bite! carrion, dead prey, to feed on. They have tiny teeth that draw Did you ever think that it would They have strong beaks to tear at lots of blood when they bite you. bee a disaster with no bees in this the carcasses. It is thought that if world? Just think about it. I a black vulture finds a carcass with understand you might be thinking meat too tough to tear into, it will that bees sting and are lead a king vulture to the carcass, aggressive, but they are so much and then let the king vulture do more than that! the work. “One out of three bites of food “Many open-country raptors eaten worldwide depends on hunt by flying high, surveying a pollinators, especially bees, for a wide area, then swooping fast” successful harvest” - Elizabeth Grossman Few bird species work together, There are some things you Without bees it would definitely but those that do can take down probably didn't know about be a disaster! Obviously we much bigger prey than one bird hamsters. First of all, male wouldn’t have honey, but we could do on its own. For those that hamsters are friendlier than would lose a lot of other foods hunt in groups, one bird swoops females. If you are wanting to produced by plants. Around half down and scares the bird out of handle a hamster, a male is a of the fruits and vegetables we cover, then the others kill it while better choice. Some foods that love would disappear. Not only it’s in the open. Some birds steal can kill hamsters are: chips, that, but we would also lose the from others as well as hunting for chocolate, bread, sweets, pasta, animals that eat those plants, and themselves. This is called pirating. biscuits, dairy products, and most even the animals that eat those They fly upside-down underneath house and garden plants. animals! “Bees are flying insects their target, and grab the prey. Hamsters bite their cages because that are closely related to wasps Birds of Prey are specifically they are either bored or to wear and ants,” says author and adapted hunters and have many down their teeth, unlike humans researcher Alex Woolf. Most bees techniques that help them survive. their teeth grow nonstop, and if however, are not aggressive and their teeth are too big it could are actually very peaceful when cause a serious infection. not threatened. Honeybees die Spirit Week – when they sting, because when Wednesday, June 2nd "I'm done with men. I have a they try to fly off, some of their Wacky Wednesday – Bring hamster. That's all I need." abdomen rips off, killing them. out your wacky clothes, - Janet Evanovich socks, hats and hair. Page 2 Continued on Next Page Edition 1 May 21, 2021 In order to make honey, first the “Beehive fences are used in Africa In 1969, on July 20th (on one half bee takes the nectar back and to keep elephants from trampling of the world) and July 21st (on the regurgitates it back into another farmland,” says Mr. Woolf, “fields other half), almost a billion people bee's mouth. “A bee’s tongue is are surrounded by beehives hung on Earth clicked on their TVs, covered with little hairs that from wires. If an elephant touches eagerly waiting to watch as Apollo extend outwards to catch the a wire, the bees come out, which 11 would attempt to put men on nectar. Then the bee sucks back in drives the elephant away.” A the moon for the first time in the tongue with the nectar on it, beehive fence is a little bit like an history. Just think about it for just and it does that in less than a electric fence, but it’s cheaper, it a second. In that time nobody had second.” says Alex Woolf, “Then doesn't hurt the elephants, it ever walked on the moon before! the nectar is turned into honey by reduces the chance of elephants It was a long, long march to that bees chewing it, swallowing, and being killed by farmers because of day. Many people were waiting for regurgitating it over and over.” trampled crops, and pollinators the launch of Apollo 11 and now Honeybees produce beeswax from and honey come with it. We can they were ready. At 9:32 am . their abdomens, which they use to help bees by planting bee- WOOSH off they went! build the honeycomb. People melt friendly flowers, vegetables, fruit, that wax and turn it into things like and herbs. These include lilac, candles. We can also use this lavender, wisteria, squash, beeswax to coat a piece of fabric honeysuckles, pumpkin, and and wrap it around food, like a sunflowers. Ask if you can put a half- eaten avocado for example, bee nest in your garden. It will to keep it fresh. give solitary bees somewhere to spend the Winter. “A world without bees would be pretty grim,” concludes Alex Woolf. “So many of the fruits and vegetables we enjoy wouldn’t exist without the pollinating “The eagle has wings!” efforts from bees.” As much as we -Neil Armstrong do know about bees that makes Neil Armstrong radioed as he and us treasure them, there may be Buzz Aldrin flew 69 miles above more that we can still learn from the moon. “You are a go for these amazingly busy, intelligent, PDIC.” (Powered Descent When the honey is finally ready, and selfless insects as well as the Ignition) Mission Control radioed the bees seal the cell with a wax complex world of the beehive.