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Type of Web activity: Links to Sites for Current Event Coverage
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This is a starting place for teachers who wish to incorporate current events in their science classes but whose students and school libraries may lack newspapers. Students select a site, then select a story to learn about, guided by a traditional question-answer format. A web-based twist is that students are asked to find additional information about the story they choose on other web sites. Environmental Current Events Links The following pages contain recent environmental current events coverage. Living on Earth - A weekly public radio show featuring stories and interviews about the environment. NOAA News - A monthly on-line publication of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration USGS News - a list of recent news releases written by the United States Geological Survey.
Student assignment 1. Pick one story from one of the above sites that you want to read and think about. 2. Answer the following questions. Prereading a. Who wrote this story? (what is the person's name and job?) b. Who is expected to read this story and why do you think so? (activists, scientists, general public) c. Why was this story presented this week? Reading d. What, in about three sentences, is the main idea of the story? e. In a news story, anyone who supplies information or quotes is called a "source." Identify all the sources quoted in your story. Identify each person and state why his/her view was included in the story. Reflecting f. Pick two sources in the story. What action do they think should be taken in the near future and why? g. What questions remain unanswered in this story? h. What value do you think the story has? (was it entertaining, informative, thought-provoking, etc.?) Verifying or Refuting i. Pick one fact or viewpoint mentioned in the story and find one additional fact or comment that could have been included in the story. You could find a contradicting view or simply additional information. (Hint: Try finding web pages from the organizations that the sources belong to.)
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