Week 5 Web Design Contest: Practice Your Web Designb Skills (I)

Racquette Lake Outdoor Education Experience for EDU314 602 and 604

To do this week

Design a Website for Your Elementary School (real or imaginary): Project #2 School Web . Learn to work in teams.

Remember the Geese Story!? Have fun working in teams!

This spring
when you see geese
heading north for the summer
flying along in a "V" formation, you
might be interested in knowing what science
has discovered about why they fly that way. It
has been learned that as each bird flaps its
wings, it creates an uplift for the bird immediately
following. By flying in a "V" formation,

the whole flock adds at least 71%
greater flying range than
if each bird flew
on its own.

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People who share a common direction and sense of community
can get where they are going quicker and easier,
because they are traveling on the thrust of one another.

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Whenever
a goose falls out
of formation, it suddenly
feels the drag and resistance
of trying to go it alone, and quickly
gets into formation to take advantage of the
lifting power of the bird immediately in front.
(If we have as much sense as a goose, we will stay
in formation with those who are headed the
same way we are going.) When the lead goose
gets tired, she rotates back in the wing and
another goose flies point. (It pays to take
turns doing hard jobs - with people or
with geese flying north.)
The geese honk from behind to
encourage those up front
to keep up their
speed.

What do we say when we honk from behind?

Acknowledgement: Thanks go to Dr. Lin Lin for sharing the Geese Story.