2012.Immis_Gift



begins to melt and she drops in a gift of her own before leaving for the season. || =Suggested Activity from the WCCPBA Activity Packet:=
 * **Immi's Gift** ||
 * ====Author: Karin Littlewood==== ||
 * ====Illustrator:==== ||
 * ====Publisher: Peachtree, 2010==== ||
 * Synopsis: Day after day in the frozen north, a young Inuit girl catches brightlycolored objects while ice fishing and uses them to decorate her igloo, until the ice
 * [[file:Immi's Gift.docx]]

=Web Links Related To This Title:= > Curtis Ebbesmeyer, retired oceanographer, compiles information about flotsam. Eric Carle was inspired to write 10 Little Rubber Ducks (2005) by reading a newspaper account in 1992 about a shipment of rubber bathtub toys falling overboard from a container ship. Eve Bunting’s book titled Ducky (1997) also pairs well with Immi’s Gift. This website gives further information about where some of the bathtub toys were found and the ocean currents that carried them. > This website is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and visually shows the relationship between global wind directions and the direction of ocean surface currents. >
 * Google Books
 * __@http://beachcombersalert.org/RubberDuckies.html__
 * __@http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es2401/es2401page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization__
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 * Information regarding biodegradable balloons: []

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 * Here is the link to the display I made for Immi's gift: []
 * I also supplemented by reading "Kumak's Fish: A Tall Take from the Far North" by Michael Bania and sharing parts of "Arctic Memories" by Normee Ekoomiak.