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Science Current Events Template

This document outlines a weekly science current events assignment for 6th grade science students. It explains that the goal is to help students learn about and enjoy science in their everyday lives by reading and summarizing recent science news articles. Each week, students must bring in a science-related news article no more than two weeks old from approved sources like newspapers, magazines, or the internet. For the written report, students predict and discuss what the article is about, related science concepts, define unfamiliar words, summarize the key details, and explain how the topic relates to real-world issues. Guidelines are provided for formatting the written report and acceptable online sources for finding articles.

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Science Current Events Template

This document outlines a weekly science current events assignment for 6th grade science students. It explains that the goal is to help students learn about and enjoy science in their everyday lives by reading and summarizing recent science news articles. Each week, students must bring in a science-related news article no more than two weeks old from approved sources like newspapers, magazines, or the internet. For the written report, students predict and discuss what the article is about, related science concepts, define unfamiliar words, summarize the key details, and explain how the topic relates to real-world issues. Guidelines are provided for formatting the written report and acceptable online sources for finding articles.

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Science Current Events: Weekly Assignment 6th Grade Science Mr.

McDonald

Science Current Events


Why?
To help make science relevant to your life I am requiring that you bring a science related news article that is current to class every week (biology, chemistry, physical science, earth and space science, environmental science, etc). One of my goals is that students learn to en oy science and understand its significance in our everyday lives. I also want students to practice reading and searching science news periodicals as well as improve skills in understanding and summari!ing news information. The articles may be from a newspaper, the internet, a maga!ine or periodical (not "ikipedia or any encyclopedia). #ake sure that you include the name and date of the source as well as the title of the article in your written report (see below). $very #onday (or the first day of the school week) a new science current event article (no older than two weeks unless approved) and written report are due at the beginning of the class. %elow are some guidelines of how your current event write&up should contain (always in paragraph form). ! you choose to use an article !rom the internet you must "rint the entire article and #rite your revie# in your o#n original hand#riting. 'o not use a computer for completing your write&up.
&ame: Date : $eriod ': Assignment: Science Current Event (eadline or Article )itle: Source &ame and )y"e: ((or e)ample * +ource ,ame- ,ewsweek, +ource Type- #aga!ine) Date o! Article: Author (if available)$revie#: .redict what the article will be about before reading it. %rainstorm what you already know about the topic. This may be a bulleted list. Clunks: /ist the 0clunk1 words that you encounter throughout the article (words that you don2t know what they mean). 'efine a minimum of two of those words (look up the dictionary definition3 use the sentence conte)t to determine the most appropriate definition). Get the Gist: "rite a summary paragraph that addresses the "ho, "hat, "here, and "hen of the article. Connect to the World * n your o#n #ords+: $)plain how this addresses a local or global issue. 'oes this impact the environment (positively or negatively)4 5re there any social, economic, political, cultural, or ethical issues related to your article topic4 $ossi%le nternet Sources: nationalgeographic.com popsci.com nature.com sciencemag.com sciam.com sciencenews.com animal.discovery.com science.discovery.com earthsky.org (there are more this is only a small selection)

5ttach your article behind your written report.

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