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Polar High Roller, a Bingo-based Class II gambling game designed by VGT, was released to US casinos in 2008. Polar High Roller is a 3 mechanical reel slot simulation game. The game was successful enough to spawn at least 2 sequels. Polar High Roller is a single pay line game. Polar Riches Slots. Take a plunge into the Arctic when you log on and play the Polar Riches video slot at your favorite Internet casino. This online slot game features animals inhabiting the Arctic Ocean, who have a taste for the finer things in life, like gold jewelry and martinis. Polar Riches is a 5-reel/20-payline slot by Amaya Gaming and features atypical wild and scatter features, as well as a free spins bonus round offering from 4 to 7 free spins. Northern lights, igloos, polar bears, and the icy surroundings make Deuces on the Rocks resemble a modern video Slot. The music is another plus, as it's both catchy and relaxing. You won't need to.
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There is an option to play for free, which we would recommend if you haven't played with the Lock & Spin feature before. But, once you've mastered it you need to play for real money to get the real cash prizes on offer.
Easily accessed from online casinos there's no download needed, so after a short (and instructive) preface, play is instant.
There are 20 fixed paylines, but, the basic betting range is really wide starting from the very low limit 0.40 and rising to 200.00. However, with the Lock & Spin Feature you can pretty much set whatever bet range suits your pocket for every individual spin. There's a medium variance and RTP is 96%.
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Polar bear Wild Symbols offer the standard substitution of other symbols, except Scatter Symbols, but, a player can increase their winning potentially substantially by playing the Lock & Spin Feature.
Ash Gaming have tuned into the zeitgeist perfectly, as choice is the golden notion of our era. The unique Lock & Spin feature allows player to choose how to play and how much to gamble. As the paytable suggests, 'play it your way'.
For an additional stake (the amount you're betting is always displayed in the bottom right hand corner), you can lock Wilds in place anywhere across the reels. A player has complete power of choice to select the number and location of the Wilds to lock in, giving the high rollers a whole new level to aim for.
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Three Free Spins Scatter Symbols will trigger the Free Spins bonus and the more Scatters, the more Free Spins, up to a maximum of 20.
During Free Spins all your polar bears become Sticky Wilds, locked in place for the duration of Free Spins, which can be a lucrative round, especially as Wilds can feature Multipliers.
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Ice Run is an online slots from Ash Gaming's parent company, Playtech which is comparable as a base game.
However, once you've added the game changer that is the Lock & Spin Feature it's difficult to make the comparison. We probably need to think higher volatility, in which case, we naturally think Ainsworth and the Rumble Rumble slot is a classic example.
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Ash Gaming have cleverly designed this game to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. The fun graphics and basic gameplay will appeal to any arctic-themed slots fans, but the wonderfully versatile Lock & Spin Feature will allow a low limit punter to dabble in some high roller territory, at the same time as attracting all you high stakes pokies fans.
This nonfiction article is written for use with upper-elementary students (grades 4-5). Modified versions are available for students in grades K-1 and grades 2-3, or any student needing a simplified version. As always, consider the reading level and needs of your students when selecting a version for classroom use.
At each grade level, the article is available in three forms. Printable pdf files allow you to print this story in either text-only or a foldable book format. Your students can listen to the story while they read ourelectronic book version. Literacy templates and related resources provide suggestions for integrating this story with your science and literacy instruction.
Interested in other nonfiction articles for your students? Browse all twenty sets from the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears collection on our Stories for Students page!
Life on the Ice (Cube)
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Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level = 4.8
Right now, trillions of invisible bits of almost nothing are passing through your body. They are called neutrinos. Neutrinos are everywhere. Yet it is almost impossible to catch one.
Scientists want to understand neutrinos. To learn about them, scientists have built some of the strangest telescopes ever seen. One of these telescopes is at the South Pole. It is called IceCube.
Laura Gladstone is a scientist working at IceCube. Laura is a student at the University of Wisconsin. She helped design a machine that spots neutrinos moving through ice. Laura tested this machine at IceCube.
What’s it like to do science at the South Pole? Laura wrote about placing her machine down a mile-long hole in the ice. She wrote about cables that got so cold and icy that she needed a blow dryer to make them work. She wrote about working 18 hours a day (after all, there’s no nighttime for half the year at the South Pole). But Laura also wrote about everyday life in the coldest place on Earth.
One day in December, some of the IceCube scientists made ice cream. They mixed powdered milk and water. They put their bowl outside. The ice cream froze in just three minutes! Laura said it was delicious. She had to be careful, though, not to touch the metal spoon to her lips, or else the spoon would stick!
Laura also wrote about the clothing she wore while working at IceCube. Each day, Laura wore a heavy parka filled with down, three pairs of socks, and boots with four-inch soles. Altogether her clothing weighed 13 pounds. It’s a lot of work just to go outside even for a short time, so Laura needed to plan carefully.
Many things we take for granted are missing from the South Pole. Laura wrote about how wonderful it was to have strawberries with a holiday dinner. At the Pole, where all food had to be flown in from far away, fresh strawberries were a rare treat.
Hot showers were a rare treat, too. Laura was allowed two showers a week – each to last just two minutes! Not much time to wash your hair. But water and the fuel to heat it up are valuable. Everyone at the South Pole has to follow the rules to keep from running out of fuel.
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At the South Pole Laura lived in a temporary building with around 15 other people. The temporary building is only used in the Antarctic summer. No one could live there in the winter. Even in the summer, though, staying warm was a challenge. Laura wrote that she slept wearing long pants, a sweatshirt, and a hat, with three blankets and her coat draped over her. Not only that, but she had to wear a mask over her eyes to keep out the sunshine that kept coming – even in the middle of the night!
Finding ways to have fun at the South Pole is more important than you might think. It keeps the scientists and other workers interested in their tasks. It also gives the 250 or so people working at the South Pole a feeling of tradition.
One tradition is the Race Around the World. It is a two-mile race around the South Pole. Some run, some walk, and some ride in parade floats they’ve built for the occasion. Laura described her favorite, a steam-breathing dragon that lumbered its way around the course.
One activity missing from the South Pole might surprise you. There’s no ice skating. Why? Skating requires flat ice. Flat ice comes from water that has frozen over a lake or a pond. At the South Pole the ice never melts, so there’s no water to freeze. No water means no flat ice, and no flat ice means no skating.
Other than the humans working at the Pole, there’s no animal life at all. That means no mice or mosquitoes, not even a butterfly or a squirrel, and no birds singing or flying overhead and no dogs barking. There was one animal that made it to the Pole with Laura, though. Her stuffed penguin PJ kept Laura company every step of the way.
Most scientists don’t stay at the South Pole for long. Laura is now back in Wisconsin, but the work on IceCube will go on for many years. And the neutrinos Laura studied just keep coming.
Glossary
Down – soft, fluffy feathers, used to stuff clothing for warmth
Lumbered — moved in a clumsy manner
Parka – a warm jacket
Tradition – an activity repeated year after year
Trillions – a very large number of something
Modified versions of this text are available for grades K-1 (Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level = 1.9) and grades 2-3 (Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level = 3.5). See below for links to all three versions in text, book, and electronic book forms.
Printable Files
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Notes for assembling the books:
You can put this book together a couple of different ways. You can print out the pages, cut them in half and then order the pages back to front. Fold the stack in half and then staple the spine of the book. Pairs of pages can then be stapled or glued along the right edge.
You can also assemble the book as a foldable book.
To assemble the book this way, print the four pages and align the document pages so that the following book page numbers are in the lower right-hand corner: front page, page 6, page 2, and page 4. (The cover page should be on top and page 4 on the bottom.) Set your copier to copy single pages into double pages and run the four document pages in the order specified. Cut along the dotted line in the center of the double-sided page, place the book pages in order, fold, and staple along the spine.
Electronic Books
Life on the Ice (Cube)
Grades K-1 Electronic Book
Articulate Version
Flash Verison
Grades 2-3 Electronic Book
Articulate Version
Flash Version
Grades 4-5 Electronic Book
Articulate Version
Flash Version
In the Articulate version, click on the small arrow at the top of each page for the narration. The large arrow at the right will take you to the next page.
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In the Flash version, the play button (in the top right hand corner) will play an audio file of the text on that page, while the pawprint (bottom right hand corner) will turn to the next page. Please note that the audio files take a moment to load on each page. Once the file has been loaded, a play button will appear in the top right hand corner of the page. To minimize the delay on each page, you can open the file and read through the article first. Once each page’s audio has loaded, it remains loaded until you close the browser window. By preparing the article ahead of time, you can have students start at the beginning of the book and read without delays. If you don’t have Flash, you can download it for free from the Adobe web site.
This set includes three levels of e-books and foldable PDF booklets for grades K-1, 2-3, and 4-5.
Literacy Templates
In this month’s literacy content knowledge article, we discuss how to help students think about the text as they read. Print and use the Q+V+C template to help your students question, visualize, and make connections as they read “Life on the Ice (Cube)!”
Q+V+C Template
This template helps students ask questions, visualize, and make connections while reading.
Related Resources
IceCube
The web site of the IceCube project contains information for the “casual visitor,” a multimedia gallery, and a section devoted to educational outreach. The site is updated frequently with the latest news regarding the project.