Cornwall Terrace Elementary: 5th-Research & Debate

LUCY CALKINS TEXT SET ARTICLE LINKS:

• Extreme Sports Facts by Sciene Kids
• "Safety Worries Hit the 'Slope' at Sochi Olympics" (by Los Angeles Times, adapted by Newsela staff  ( Students may need to log in with Google Accounts)
• "Best of the X Games"
• "Skate Safety: A Crash Course" by Sky Siljeg
• "Kids and Extreme Sports" by Kyanna Sutton, Family Education

Additional Article Suggestions:

• “Snowboarder Kevin Pearce Recovers” By Alexis Wiseman, Scholastic News Kids Press Corps
• Getting Involved In ‘Extreme Sports’: Advice From Parents Of Top Extreme Athletes” from Momsteam.com
• "X Games" National Geographic

Multimedia

• (video) Kevin Pearce Recovers (Scholastic News Online from Student Reporter, Alexis Wiseman)

http://safeshare.tv/v/ss56985df0758d0

• (video) “Xtreme Parents: Extreme Sports” Features a 3rd gr. monster truck driver and a rodeo rider.
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/parenting-monster-trucks-children-drivingsports-2020-16283782

(video) “Ashima Shiraishi- World’s Best Female Rock Climber?” Video of her at age 9. Today she is a 14 y/o climbing phenomena. YouTube. http://safeshare.tv/v/ss5698657591166

(video) “Cody Ling Profile- Kids Who Rip- Amazing Freestyle Skier” YouTube. http://safeshare.tv/v/ss5698692aedc4e

LUCY CALKINS TEXT SET ARTICLE LINKS:

• "Zoos"
• Are Zoos a Good Thing?
• "Tigers Cuddle With Apes" (National Geographic Kids)
• "Giant Panda Cubs Give Hope to an Endangered Species" by David George Gordon
• "What Zoos Do"
• "Tigers At Home In the Bronx Zoo" by Quinn Jacobson, Scholastic Kids Press Corps
• "Some clever chimps stage escape at Kansas City Zoo" By Kansas City Star, adapted by Newsela staff
• "Dogs work with elephants at Pittsburgh Zoo" By Pittsburg Post-Gazette, adapted by Newsela staff
• "Fall is pumpkin time - even for zoo animals!" by Ellen Brait, The Guardian, adapted by Newsela staff
• "Zoos step in to help save wild animals around the world" by McClatchy Foreign Staff, adapted by Newsela staff
• "Zoo orders huge shoes for one of its elephants" by Washington Post, adapted by Newsela staff 

Additional Article Suggestions: https://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/article?urn=urn%3Asirs%3AUS%3BARTICLE%3BART%3B0000278347

• "Zoos- Endangered Species"  Scholastic News
• “Why Zoos Matter” 
• “Reintroduction programs”
• “Apes have Rights Too, Court Rules” By Scientific American, adapted by Newsela staff 

DEBATE TOPICS: OPINIONS OF BOTH SIDES ABOUT ZOOS

Multimedia:

(video) “The Pros and Cons of Zoos.” From D News. YouTube. http://safeshare.tv/v/ss5698171903f61

(video) Captive Animal Misery in European Zoos. Youtube. http://safeshare.tv/v/ss5698124019ee1

(video) Feeding the Animals at the Smithsonian National Zoo. Youtube. http://safeshare.tv/v/ss5698147d37602

LUCY CALKINS TEXT SET ARTICLE LINKS:

• "Bag-Ban Debate" By Jennifer Dignan, Scholastic News
• "Plastic Bags: Convenient and Cruel" article by Storyworks Magazine
• Fact Sheet from Bag the Ban
• “Floating Junkyard” by Britt Norlander, Scholasic News
• Learn the Facts from Bag the Ban
• NYC’s Grocery Bags: Myth vs. Fact from Bag the Ban 
• Toronto Bans Plastic Shopping Bags 
• Environment from Bag the Ban
• Jobs and the Economy from Bag the Ban

Additional Article Suggestions: 

•  Plastic Bags: To Ban or Not To Ban
• The Debate of Banning Plastic Bags
• Can We Save the Earth from Plastic Bags? by Rachel Cribby

Multimedia

• (video) “Charity: water”
http://www.charitywater.org/whywater/

• (video) “Kids and Recycling (part 5)—How are plastic bottles and caps recycled?” By CQ Goes Green

• (video) “Recycling Plastic Water Bottles”

• “Why is Everyone Worried About Global Warming?” by Margaret Anderson (Ask Magazine, April 2008—entire issue is about Global Warming) http://www.lake.k12.fl.us/cms/lib05/FL01000799/Centricity/domain/17/elementary%20ela%20scope%20and%20sequence%202014-%202015/4th%20grade/Grade%204%20Unit%209%20Global%20Warming.pdf

“Climate Change: Catastrophe in the Making” from the Environmental Defense Fund. https://www.edf.org/climate/climate-facts-dangers-and-what-you-can-do?s_src=ggad.03.2012.control&gclid=CP2-oMfc9a4CFWcQNAodrzWVEw

“A Student’s Guide to Global Climate Change.” From the EPA. http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/

Infographic: Extreme Weather and Climate Change from Union of Concerned Scientists. http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/impacts/extreme-weather-climate-change.html#.Vpb1sk-rEm9

“Extreme Weather Impacts of Climate Change.” from the National Resource Defense Council. http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/climate-change-impacts/

(video) “Global Warming: A Way Forward: Facing Climate Change.” from National Geographic. 

LUCY CALKINS TEXT SET ARTICLE LINKS:

• Mt. Everest From The New Book Of Knowledge
• “Has the Summit of Mt. Everest Become an Overcrowded Tourist Trap?” By: Stephen Williams, New York Daily News
•  “How People Die on Mount Everest: Infographic” 
• "Tourism" From Mount Everest 3D
• “Interview with Sir Edmund Hillary” 
• "Into the Deathzone: A Mount Everests Adventure" from StoryWorks Magazine 
• Mount Everest's Death Zone from Super Science Magazine
• "Mt. Everest: Why do People Keep Climbing It?"

Additional Article Suggestions: 

• “Helping People Climb Mount Everest is a dangerous job for sherpas in Nepal” By Los Angeles
  Times, adapted by Newsela Staff
•  “On Top of the World at 13” by Laura Leigh Davidson
• “How Has Mount Everest Tourism Affected Nepal?” By Cristen Conger

• “Jordan Romero 13, summits Everest: How Young Is Too Young?” (By David Scott, Christian Science Monitor, May 23, 2010)
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0523/Jordan-Romero-13-summits-Everest-How-young-is-too-young

LUCY CALKINS TEXT SET ARTICLE LINKS:

•  “Dangerous Predators” 
•  Infographic: Status of the Shark
•  Sharks: Killers or Just Misunderstood? By Sarah C. Stoughton, MA
• “Food Web Woes” by Emily Sohn 
•  “Tourists Wary But Not Put Off After Shark Attacks In Hawaii” By Los Angles Times, adapted by Newsela staff
• “Great White Shark” National Geographic Kids 
• Spinner shark attacks Florida teen surfer By Sun Sentinel, adapted by Newsela staff
• Shark attacks expected to rise this summer. Discovery News
• Five most dangerous sharks to humans. CBS News
• “Rise in shark attacks scares tourists away from paradise isle of Reunion.” Sunday Express (UK) 

Additional Article Suggestions: 

•  “Big Question: Are there Many or Few Great White Sharks Near California?” By Los Angeles Times, adapted by Newsela Staff
• “Sharks in Captivity”
•  “Sand Tiger Shark”  National Geographic Kids
• “Sharks Endangered”
•  “Great White Comeback” by Samantha McCann
•  “Swimming with sharks and stingrays” by Emily Sohn 
• “Bull Shark”  National Geographic Kids
• “Fun Shark Facts for Kids” 
• “Great White Shark” 

Multimedia:

• (video) “Saving the Ocean: Shark Reef.” from PBS. http://www.pbs.org/video/1875037754/

• (video) “Sharks Too Close for Comfort?” Discovery Channel Shark Week
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/shark-week/videos/sharks-too-close-for-comfort.htm

• (video) “What’s More Deadly Than Sharks?” (Video from OneWorldOneOcean.com, August 3, 2013)
 

• (video) “Sharks: Stewards of the Reef (sharkstewards.com)” (Video created by Shark Saver, found on YouTube)
 

Suggested articles:

• “Which scientific research is more important, underwater or space?”

http://www.timeforkids.com/news/exploration-poll/176886

• “A Month Under the Sea”
http://magazines.scholastic.com/news/2014/09/A-Month-Under-the-Sea

• “Space Exploration” from National Geographic
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/space-exploration/

• What was the Apollo Program?
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/what-was-apollo-program-58.html

• “Mission Twinpossible” (from Time for Kids)
http://www.timeforkids.com/news/mission-twinpossible/219891

Interview with Dr. Michael Shara, an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History. Scholastic Science Explorations. http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/explorations/authform_shara.asp

• 50 Years in Space on scholastic.com
http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3756035

• “Why explore space?” (By Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy, Discover Magazine, November 28, 2007)
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/28/why-explore-space/ —

• “Space Exploration”
http://www.esa.int/esaKIDSen/SEMT0EBE8JG_LifeinSpace_0.html

• “The Real Reasons We Explore Space” (By Michael Griffin, Air & Space Magazine, July 2007)
http://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-real-reasons-we-explore-space-18816871/?no-ist

• “A Giant Robot Crab” by Hailee Romain
http://magazines.scholastic.com/news/2014/04/A-Giant-Robot-Crab

• “Underwater Exploration”  by Cheryl Ward
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/explorations/squid/libraryarticle.asp?ItemID=199&SubjectI
D=126&categoryID=5

• “Fabien Costeau leads Acquanauts in Record-Breaking Underseas Expedition”
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/06/140624-fabien-cousteau-aquanauts-aquariusmission-
31-ocean/

• “Mars Can Wait: Oceans Can’t” (By: Amitai Etzioni, Special To CNN, August 17, 2012)
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/09/opinion/etzioni-space-oceans/.

Scientists to explore an underwater world near Antarctica that's been hidden for 120,000 years

Multimedia:

• (video) Bill Nye: Why We Explore. YouTube.

http://safeshare.tv/v/ss569818e1750af

• (video) “Help Save Our Oceans: A Groundbreaking Undersea Expedition with Fabien Costeau” YouTube.

http://safeshare.tv/v/ss569819c210107

(video) “What I learned from spending 31 days under water” TED Talk by Fabien Cousteau. YouTube. 

http://safeshare.tv/v/ss56981acef316d

• (video) “Let’s Talk Space” (from Time for Kids)
http://www.timeforkids.com/photos-video/video/lets-talk-space-226686

• (video) Neil deGrasse Tyson—We Stopped Dreaming (Episode 1). YouTube.

http://safeshare.tv/v/ss56981bb3cc590

May be photocopied for classroom use. © 2015 by Lucy Calkins and Colleagues from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project from Units of Study for Teaching Reading (Heinemann: Portsmouth, NH).