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4. Fill in a nxn grid with n letters related n times with no two letters on the same row or column.
5. Dobble (scouts version).

If someone wants to run this on their or unit, let me know and I'll make the activities public in OSM. I added the badges, etc

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I it's Maths Week England this week and I ran algorithm based activities with my Beavers unit, blended into games.
1. Tell somoene how to build a lego they cannot see.
2. Pass water from a cup to someone else's cup with a syringe with the number of ml given by a die cast. The one with less water at the end wins.
3. Stick race. Add a stick to a line once per turn. They must figure out largest sticks will get them to win.
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A leucistic white beaver lives in Eastern Ontario.

An Ottawa photographer and a recently retired Carleton University professor went out near Perth to follow up on reports. Yes, they successfully captured it on photos.

"To see a totally white beaver with dark eyes and a dark foot, that's incredible!"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/rare-white-beaver-wows-ottawa-area-wildlife-watchers-1.7653588

Saturday morning beaver frolics, these two are wrasslin, splashin, rollin and tumblin, creating quite a ruckus. Maybe later they went into the lodge and got frisky, I don't know! 👀

Two wet, brown, furry beavers wrestling in the water, head-to-head and cheek-to-cheek, their black noses and whiskers pointing skyward. They are in a large puddle, surrounded by brown and green marsh grass. Quite amusing to watch them, it seemed to be all in good fun.

Here is the biggest, burliest, chonk of a beaver I've ever seen, and I've seen many. I'm going to say 50 pounds if an ounce, maybe 60 or more. It was a long way off so the pics are poor. We had our 10-40 binocs along so got a very good look at it, a truly impressive beast.

A very large brown beaver, photographed from about 60 yards and so in poor focus, sits in thick green marsh grass chewing bark it has stripped off a willow tree that has been fallen, two of its bare trunks laying horizontally along and above the beaver.
Another angle of the massive beaver. It is on a bit higher ground so more of it's very fat body can be seen as it chews bark.

Today in The Medium Newsletter, featured stories include:

• Addressing , with Jess Steier and @gidmkhealthnerd

• The critical role of in the , by Quentin Septer

• The patriarchal undervaluing of domestic work, by @katiejgln

• How can reduce human stress levels, by @TheConversationUS

• Insights on from a silent retreat, by Rajat Garg

https://medium.com/blog/what-we-can-learn-from-listening-to-people-who-have-changed-their-opinions-on-vaccines-a1feac0693ee

Story by Quentin Septer titled “The Beavers Found Me” and an aerial photo of Glenview, Illinois featuring its stormwater retention ponds
Story by Katie Jgln titled “The Most Essential Work in the World Is Still the Least Valued” and “Sewing Girl” painting by Carl Larsson, portraying a young woman sewing while seated at a large table containing stacks of fabric and a large vase of flowers, with a loom in the background
Story by Gideon M-K; Health Nerd titled “The Problem With Vaccines” and a close-up photo of a gloved person administering an injection into another person’s upper arm
Story by The Conversation U.S. titled “Dogs Can Ease Your Stress Significantly, New Experiment Reveals” and a photo of a bulldog lying on their back with their eyes closed and their head cradled by two human hands

The front page of Wikipedia yesterday featured this article about a dam in the Czech Republic.

The Czech government had promised to restore some wetlands, but they dragged their bureaucratic feet.

So then some moved in. To quote Wikipedia:
"The beaver-built dams provided ecological benefits, including improved water quality, enhanced biodiversity, and better water retention, while also saving the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-engineered_dam_in_the_Czech_Republic

"I was here." - Beaver 🦫🌲

Very clear evidence of activity. You can see their many chew marks on this stump. This is in a small community park, stewarded by citizens who live beside little Calvert Lake.

Access to trails is off of Prospect Lake Rd & easy to miss if you're not paying close attention. Only room for 2 cars to park on roadside pullouts. The trails aren't very well maintained & you can easily get lost around them. I've ended up in someone's backyard once, trying to hike back out. Wear long pants because there's a lot of places you have to bushwhack through along tiny footpaths. Lots of salal, Oregon grape, lady ferns (excellent for fiddleheads harvesting) & mushrooms.

Medium shot of a tree stump displaying beaver tooth marks taken outdoors in a forest setting. The stump is centered in the frame with green foliage filling the background & surrounding the base. The top part of the stump has jagged, light-colored marks indicative of beaver activity. Below is bark with a dark-colored & heavily textured wood.