ALL THAT GLITTERS Quetzal reads a story about "El Dorado," the city of gold, and shows the gang a shiny golden dragon scale that the city's Gilded Dragon gave him. Max asks Quetzal if he can borrow the scale. When they decide to fly to the sunniest part of Dragon Land, Max discovers he's lost the scale. The group tries to find or replace it, but ultimately decides that Max needs to tell Quetzal the truth. EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVE: Finding something that's lost DRAGONBERRY DROUGHT The gang, especially Ord, is all ready for the best day of the year to pick dragonberries. Emmy has a basket, Max has a pail and the dragons have their pouchesanothing can stop them, except maybe the fact that all of the dragonberries are missing! The bushes have all been picked clean! They try to think of many different ways to find them, including following a flock of Do-re-mi Birds (notorious dragonberry eaters). Once they realize that dragonberry bushes are both round and red, their search eventually leads them to one fruitful bush, where they discover a trail of footprints. They follow it and learn that Mungus the giant inadvertently picked all the berries to make his mother a very special treat-a dragonberry pie! He apologies and promises them a slice when it is done baking-yummy! The slice turns out to be more than twice their size (even Ord) and twice as delicious as anything they've ever eaten in Dragon Land. EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVE: Using classification skills to solve a problem.
