Stop the copying with wild and wacky

Stop the Copy ing with Wild and Wacky Re search Pro jects Nancy Polette An im print of Li brar ies Un lim itedWestport, Con nect i cut • Lon don... Stop the copy ing with wild and wacky

Stop the Copy ing with Wild and

Wacky Re search Pro jects

Nancy Polette

An im print of Li brar ies Un lim itedWestport, Con nect i cut • Lon don

Li brary of Con gress Cat a log ing-in-Pub li ca tion Data

Polette, Nancy.

Stop the copy ing with wild and wacky re search pro jects / Nancy Polette.

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In cludes bib lio graph i cal ref er ences and in dex.

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In for ma tion Stan dards Or ga ni za tion (Z39.48–1984).

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Con tents

Pref ace ix

Part One: Food for Thought Wacky Veg e ta bles 3

Re search Re port: Ode to an On ion 4

News Re lease 5

Re search Re port: Fact or Myth? 6

Re search Re port: Ketchup Ice Cream 7

Dic tio nary Skills: The TV Was His Din ner 8

Re search Re port: Cham pion Hot Dog Eater 9

The Great est Rec ipe 10

Cre ative Writ ing: Writ ing a Fa ble 11

Re search Re port: K Ra tions 12

Re sources: Food 13

Part Two: On the Move! Fly ing 17

Re search Re port: The Avi a tion First No body Wanted 18

High lights in Avi a tion 19

Re search Re port: The Sim ile Re port 20

Re search Re port: Firsts in Avi a tion 21

Re search Skills: First to Fly in a Lawn Chair 22

Cre ative Writ ing: The Mir a cle Girl 23

Fa mous Firsts 24

Re search Model: An other Alarm ist 25

Re search Re port: Pro tec tor of the Ocean 26

Re search Re port: Want to Buy a Car? 27

Re search Re port: Ten Rea sons Not to Buy a _ 28

Re sources: On the Move! 29

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Part Three: The Doc tor Is In!

Cures When there Were No Cures 33

Dic tio nary Prac tice: Why I Missed School To day 34

Quiz: An Elec tri cal Cure 35

Doc tors 36

Re search Re port: The Doc tor Who Went to Jail for Set ting a Bro ken Bone! 37

Cre ative Writ ing: Was She a Crim i nal? 38

Quiz: Firsts in Med i cine 39

Re sources: Med i cine 40

Part Four: Crime Does n’t Pay Quiz: Crime Does n’t Pay 45

Re search Re port: In truder Causes Traf fic Jam No Ticket Given 46

Mas ter Crim i nals Turned De tec tives 47

Re search Re port: Out laws of the Wild West 48

Re search Skills: Mys tery Scav en ger Hunt 49

Guilty or In no cent? 50

Con clu sion Pa per: The Per sua sive Es say 51

Re sources: Crime 52

Part Five: The White House Those Sur pris ing Pres i dents 57

Re search Re port: Fa vor ite Songs 58

Those Sur pris ing First La dies! 59

Re search Re port: The First La dies 60

Ghosts in the White House 61

Cre ative Writ ing: Cre ate a White House Ghost Story 62

Quiz: The White House 63

Re sources: The Pres i dents and Their Wives 64

Part Six: Peo ple Who Were First More Crazy Firsts 67

Quiz: Amaz ing Firsts for Women 68

Re search Re port: A Rap 69

More Lit tle-Known Firsts 70

Re search Re port: Fa mous First Facts 72

De spite a Hand i cap 73

Re search Re port: The A–Z Re port 74

Re sources: Peo ple Who Were First 75

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Part Seven: Un be liev able Peo ple

Un be liev able Walk ers 79

Re search Re port: The Youn gest Run ner 80

Re search Re port: Ex er cise or Med i ta tion? 81

Cre ative Writ ing: Mag netic Peo ple 82

Dic tio nary Skills: Wolf Girls 83

About Mi sers 84

Re search Re port: The Acros tic 85

Re search Re port: Ahead of His Time 86

Re search Re port: The $65 Mil lion Pants 87

Re search Re port: The Man With out a Coun try 88

Re search Re port: The Girl Who Chased Fire En gines 89

Re search Re port: Peo ple In vent the Strang est Things! 90

Re sources: Un usual Peo ple 91

Part Eight: Bits of His tory Con clu sion Pa per: Did Co lum bus Re ally Dis cover Amer ica? (1492) 95

Im pos tor! (1771) 96

Re search Re port: Im pos tors 97

Re search Re port: The Al amo (1836) 98

Re search Re port: A Fu neral for a Leg (1837) 99

Con clu sion Pa per: Fact or Leg end? The Lost Dutch man Mine (1845) 100

Bits of His tory from the Civil War 101

Re search Re port: The Civil War (1861–1865) 102

Quiz: A Civil War Quiz 103

The Wild West: Was She Re ally a Ca lam ity? (1865) 104

Re search Re port: Women of the Wild West (1850–1880) 105

How Wild Was the Wild West? (1870s) 106

Re search Re port: Which Town Was the Wild est? (1870s) 107

Lit er ary De scrip tion: Wild West Towns (1870s) 108

One-Eyed Char lie, 1812–1879 109

Re search Re port: First Woman to Vote (1868) 110

Re search Re port: Stage coach Rob bers 111

Com bin ing His tory and Cre ative Writ ing 112

The Beat of Amer ica 113

Re search Re port: It Was n’t Mrs O’Leary’s Cow! (1871) 114

Re search Re port: Ar ti facts (1840–1890) 115

World War I (1917) 116

Main Idea: Stubby, Hero of 17 Bat tles 117

Re search Re port: The Great Mo las ses Di sas ter of 1919 118

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Part Eight: Bits of His tory (Cont.)

Re search Re port: Di sas ters 119

Quiz: World War II: Op er a tion Mince meat (1940–1945) 120

The Dancer Was a Spy (1939–1945) 121

Re search Re port: Re search ing Women Spies (1776–1865) 122

Re search Re port: The Bing Crosby Code (1975) 123

Re search Re port: Yes ter day and To day (1900-200_) 124

Re search Re port: A His tor i cal Birth day Card 125

Re sources: His tory 126

Part Nine: The Earth and Its Crea tures Re search Re port: When The River Ran Back wards 131

Mne mon ics 132

Mne mon ics: The Boil ing Lake 133

Trea sure Is land 134

Re search Re port: Re search ing Pi rates 135

Cre ative Writ ing: Strange Rains 136

Cre ative Writ ing: Sing ing Sands 137

En dan gered Spe cies 138

Re search Re port: En dan gered Spe cies 139

Mar vel ous Mam mals 140

Cre ative Writ ing: More Mar vel ous Mam mals 141

Cre ative Writ ing: Story Out line 142

Cre ative Writ ing: The En joys a Hol i day! 143

An i mal Heroes 144

Re search Re port: The Newshound! 145

Re sources: The Earth and Its Crea tures 146

Part Ten: The Un ex plained The Devil Ship 149

Re search Ac tiv ity: Bal lad of Hunley’s Boats 150

The P-40 Ghost Plane 151

Mys te ri ous Places: The Ber muda Tri an gle 152

Re search Re port: Mys te ri ous Places 153

An cient Curses 154

Write an Obit u ary 155

Strange Crea tures 156

Re search Ac tiv ity: The Rhym ing Acros tic 157

Re sources: The Un ex plained 158

Bib li og ra phy: Ad di tional Ref er ences 159

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Preface

Did you know

A famous French chef created her greatest recipe BEFORE she learned to cook!McDonald’s opened its first restaurant as a barbecue stand

The first airmail letters went by train

The top speed of the first automobile was three miles per hour

A young man with no medical training served as a resident doctor in a major hospital.The best way to prevent a toothache is to wear a dead mole around your neck

The best way to get rid of a dead whale is to blow it up with dynamite

These and many other wild and wacky (BUT TRUE) tales serve as spring boards to re searchabout peo ple, places, an i mals, and events In place of the tra di tional re search re port, stu dents cre -ate songs, po ems, quiz zes, games, and a host of other prod ucts while at the same time meet ing

na tional stan dards in read ing, lan guage arts, and in for ma tion lit er acy The re search re port ing mod els are ge neric in that they can be used to re port on any per son, an i mal, place, or event.

Stop the Copy ing with Wild and Wacky Re search Pro jects gives stu dents the op por tu nity to

ex plore the strange, the un usual, and the out-of-the-or di nary found on this won der ful planet weall share and to dis play un der stand ing of a topic by cre at ing unique re search prod ucts in whichthey can take pride

RESEARCH HAS NEVER BEEN THIS MUCH FUN!

In tro duc tion

By the time stu dents have reached the third grade, copy ing is fairly per va sive when re search

re ports are as signed Tell ing stu dents not to copy but to put the in for ma tion “in your own words”

is an other way of ask ing stu dents to take some thing that is writ ten well and write it poorly.Many re search mod els en cour age copy ing by leav ing out an im por tant step Ex am ine this

ba sic re search model:

6 Organize the information

7 Share the information

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The miss ing, and most im por tant, step is to de ter mine the re search prod uct upon which allother steps de pend This should be step 2 For ex am ple, in a study of an cient Egypt, if the re -search prod uct is a scale model of a pyr a mid, the ques tions and re sources used will be very dif -fer ent from the in for ma tion re quired if the prod uct is a one-week di ary of an Egyp tian slave.The sam ple re search re port ing ac tiv ity on page xi uses wild and wacky sto ries to stim u late

in ter est in a topic It then al lows stu dents to ex am ine and se lect a re search re port ing model withwhich they are com fort able (which prevents copying)

To in tro duce the prac tice of do ing re search with out copy ing to youn ger stu dents, or to breakthe copy ing hab its of older stu dents, it is es sen tial that in for ma tion be or ga nized and re ported innew ways The mark of a lit er ate per son is the abil ity to en code in for ma tion in a va ri ety of ways

Wild and Wacky Re search pro vides more than 50 re search re port ing mod els that pre vent copy ing

and re sult in orig i nal prod ucts in which stu dents can take pride

The fol low ing mod els are ge neric; they can be used to re port on any topic:

• Fact or Myth? (p 6) A statement about the topic is given on one page, asking the readerwhether the statement is fact or myth The answer, along with supporting data, is given onthe next page

• Cinquain (p 23) or diamante (p 38) These short poetry models are used to describe aperson, place, or animal

• Ten Reasons (p 28) This model requires the student to analyze a topic in depth to come up with 10 reasons NOT to do something, for example, 10 reasons not to visit a castle, 10reasons not to have an alligator for a pet

• Acrostic (p 85) The topic is described in short sentences or phrases, with each linebeginning with a letter of the topic name

• A–Z Report (p 74) A variation on the acrostic The topic is presented in 26 phrases orsentences, with each phrase or sentence beginning with a letter of the alphabet

• Newspaper The topic is described as news, as advertisements, as an editorial, as want ads,

or as other parts of a newspaper

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HOW TO STOP COPYING USING WILD

AND WACKY RESEARCH

Share: Mo ti vate stu dents to re search food by shar ing sev eral of the wild and wacky (but true)

food tales Ex am ple: tales about the on ion and the po tato chip

Se lect a Topic: Ex am ine and choose a food (e.g., or ange).

Choose a Prod uct Model: I will write an “Ode to an Or ange,” which con tains a de scrip tion,

source, con tents, nu tri tional prop er ties, and value to and uses by humans

De velop Ques tions: What is the source? What are the var i ous lay ers of an or ange? Which parts

are ed ible? What are the nu tri tional val ues? How are or anges used by humans?

De ter mine Re sources: Where Does Food Come From? by Shel ley Rotner (Millbrook Press,

2006); Eat ing Right by Helen Frost (Peb ble Books, 2000).

Col lect and Or ga nize Data: Gather data to an swer the ques tions and ar range the in for ma tion

fol low ing the “Ode to an On ion” model (page 4)

Share the Prod uct with oth ers.

Eval u ate: Does the “Ode” con tain all needed in for ma tion? Could any part of the re search pro

-cess have been done more ef fi ciently?

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Ode to an Or ange

I am an or ange

From fra grant blos som to a fully rounded fruit I am plucked from a tree

My leath ery rind hides the del i cate flesh be neath

My great est need is to guard my vi ta min C, which fights the com mon cold

My vi ta min A keeps eye sight sharp and keen

My job is to strengthen the im mune sys tem of hu mans

My for mer home, the tree, will con tinue to pro duce my cous ins for 50 to 80 years

I va ca tion when 40 per cent of me is turned into juice

My great est de sire is to bring joy to a child by be ing found in a Christ mas stock ing

an assigned person or a person of their choice

Flight Bag/Suit case (p 18): What would the con tents tell about a per son?

Song/Bal lad (p 26): Use a fa mil iar tune to re late an im por tant in ci dent in the per son’slife

Sim ile Re port (p 21): Com pare life events For ex am ple, Bessie’s fam ily was as poor

as an empty piggy bank

Who, What, When, Where, Why Re port (p 48)

Song Con nec tions (p 58): Con nect a fa mous per son with var i ous song ti tles and ex plain the con nec tion us ing events in the per son’s life

-Paul Re vere Po etry: Sum ma rize the per son’s life or re tell an im por tant in ci dent inrhym ing verse, with two to three words per line

Met a phor Re port: Use met a phors to de scribe the per son and ex plain the choices of met

-a phor For ex -am ple, D-avy Crockett w-as -a rock De spite the d-an ger he f-aced, he re fused

to move and re mained stead fast at the Al amo, re sult ing in his death

Lim er ick: Us ing the lim er ick form of verse, give one or two facts about the per son.

Rap: Use a rap form to re view a per son’s life or an im por tant in ci dent in his or her life.Obit u ary: Write an obit u ary and de sign an ap pro pri ate head stone for the person.Bio Poem: Re port in for ma tion about the per son us ing these prompts:

Ex am ple:

Char lotte Park hurst

I am a stage coach driver

I won der if I can keep my se cret for ever

I hear the pound ing of horses’ hooves in my sleep

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I see trough and wind ing trails

I want to de liver my pas sen gers safely

I pre tend I am a man

I touch the reins with ex pe ri enced hands

I cry never, show ing no weak ness

I say a woman can do any job a man can do

I try to avoid rob bers but

I give as good as I get.

I am Char lotte Park hurst

REPORTING ON PLACES AND EVENTS

Share several of the stories from Part Eight, “Bits of History”; Part Nine, “The Earthand Its Creatures”; or Part Ten, “The Unexplained.”

Assign, or allow students to choose, a place or an event from history to research.Introduce one or more of the following models for reporting the research:

Cause/Ef fect Model (p 88): De scribe an event by giv ing six rea sons why it hap pened

Di sas ter Model: Be ware, be ware of the (di sas ter) there! De scribe the event in six toeight sen tences Re peat the first line

Step-by-Step Model (p 82): De scribe the steps in a pro cess or his tor i cal events in the

or der in which they hap pened, then give an al ter na tive out come

Ex am ple:

I won der why they

Pre pare the soil

Plant the seeds

Cul ti vate the earth

Spray the crops

Pick the cot ton

Re move the fi bers

Bale the lint

Truck the bales

Clean the cot ton

Spin the thread

Weave the yarn

Dye the cloth

Cut and sew

When I could wear

WOOL INSTEAD!

BioEvent (p 102): Re port on a his tor i cal event us ing the head ings in the bio-model

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Ex am ple:

Topic: Bom bard ment of Fort Sumter

Sym bol of: Un ion Au thor ity

Four Lo ca tion Words: is land, har bor, en trance, Charleston

Five Ac tion Words: threat ened, bom barded, ex ploded, evac u ated, marched Caused by: Con fed er ate de mand for a fort in a se ceded state

Val ued by: Both the North and South

Choices made: Lin coln’s de ci sion to send sup plies; Con fed er ate de ci sion to bom

-bard the fort be fore sup plies arrived

Lack ing: Enough food and sup plies to with stand the bom bard ment

Ma jor Play ers: Un ion Ma jor Rob ert An der son, Con fed er ate au thor i ties

Sim ile: Rub ble left was like an aban doned, col lapsed mine

Out come: Vic tory for the South, evac u a tion of the fort; aroused and united the

North

Sen tence Se quenc ing or Car toon (pp 117, 122): Show a se ries of events as car toons or

re ar range sen tences to place events in the or der in which they hap pened

Prep o si tion Re port (p 119) De scribe an event us ing this pat tern:

From Through _Across Around

Be tween _

Be neath _Near Into _

REPORTING ON ANIMALS

Share one or more of the wild and wacky an i mal tales Re search any an i mal, and in clude a

de scrip tion, its food, its hab i tat, and its hab its Use the in for ma tion in “A Hol i day Story” (p 142)

or “An In fin i tive Poem” (p 137)

Ex am ple:

The Griz zly Bear

All I wanted was

to roam freely from Mex ico to Alaska

to grow un hin dered to my full eight feet and 900 pounds

to find am ple game, fish, and ber ries to sat isfy my hun ger

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to see my sil ver-tipped brown fur spar kle in the sun light

to find a cozy den in which to curl up in the win ter

to be pro tected in na tional parks

But I did n’t want

to face big game hunt ers who kill for sport

to have my head stuffed and placed on a wall

to find my food sup ply gone as cit ies spread out

to be con fined to s sin gle area, a tiny part of the land I once roamed

to have my beau ti ful fur made into a rug

to be come one of many en dan gered spe cies

Ac tive re search does not al ways re quire the use of printed ma te ri als Polls can be ex cel lent

av e nues for re search To con duct a poll:

1 Determine the data to be gathered Example: Favorite ice cream flavor of students.

2 Determine the population to be polled: Members of one class? Boys only? Girls only?How many?

3 Prepare a chart on which responses are noted

4 Poll the students Record responses

5 Examine responses and draw conclusions

QUIZZES

Wild and Wacky Re search con tains sev eral quiz zes that can be used to teach the value of de

-ter min ing key words be fore search ing for in for ma tion For ex am ple (from the “First for Women” quiz on page 68):

Lt Col Eileen Collins is the first woman astronaut to _

Key words: Collins, astronaut

From the Civil War quiz page 103:

The war began when the Southern troops fired on Fort Sumter

Key words: Fort Sumter

RESEARCH SKILLS

Al though Wild and Wacky Re search is in tended to help stu dents ap ply those re search skills

that have been taught, stu dents will en joy cre at ing wild and wacky ex cuses us ing the dic tio naryand show ing their knowl edge of the Dewey Dec i mal Sys tem by tak ing part in li brary scav en gerhunts to com plete a wild and wacky story

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MORE RESEARCH REPORTING MODELS

A quick sur vey of li brary/me dia col lec tions will re veal the ti tles that fol low plus many moreprod uct mod els that will serve as pat terns for chang ing stu dents’ re search prod ucts In com bin -ing the re search pro cess with the op por tu nity to pro duce some thing stu dents can not help but gain both knowl edge of the skills and the in for ma tion needed and of them selves as creativeindividuals

Blun der or Brain storm: Fact and Fic tion of In ven tions and In ven tors, by Nancy Polette (Pieces

of Learn ing, 2006)

Dam sel or Dare devil: Fact and Fic tion of Fa mous Women, by Nancy Polette (Pieces of Learn

-ing, 2006)

The Fighter Wore a Skirt, by Nancy Polette (Pieces of Learn ing, 2002).

Nar ra tive po ems of 32 Amer i can women who faced a chal lenge and won

For tu nately/Un for tu nately, by Remy Charlip (HarperCollins, 1967).

List in chro no log i cal or der the pos i tive and hegative events in a per son’s life

Gifted or Goof-Off: Fact and Fic tion of the Fa mous, by Nancy Polette (Pieces of Learn ing, 2004) Iron Horses or Cov ered Wag ons, Bumpy Trails, by Verla Kay (Putnam, 2004).

Both books re late his tor i cal events in chro no log i cal or der, us ing “Paul Re vere” poetry

A New Eng land Scrap book, by Loretta Krupinski (Harper, 1995).

Shows those things unique to New Eng land, with fac tual in for ma tion, po etry, and art

Power or Pol i tics: Fact and Fic tion of the Pres i dents, by Nancy Polette (Pieces of Learn ing,

2006)

So You Want to Be Pres i dent, by Ju dith St George (Philo mel, 2000).

Com pares names, birth places, ap pear ance, per son al i ties, pets, mu si cal abil ity, ath let ics, ed

-u ca tion, and pre vi o-us jobs of presidents

Sum mer, by Ste ven Schnur (Hought on Mifflin, 2000).

An acros tic model for re port ing on any topic

What Is This Thing? by Nancy Polette (Pieces of Learn ing, 2007).

Shows an ar ti fact from 1800s Americana and gives the reader three guesses

A World of Won ders, by J Pat rick Lewis (Dial, 2002).

Clever po ems de scrib ing well-known places in the world

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EVALUATION OF RESEARCH PRODUCTS

Cri te ria-Based Eval u a tion

Stu dents are given the cri te ria for pro jects or writ ing as sign ments on which a grade will be given The top score for each item is 10 points There are 10 items, al low ing for a per fect score of

100 points When the stu dent com pletes the pro ject, he or she scores him self or her self on the cri

-te ria The -teacher then scores the pro ject us ing the same cri -te ria Stu dent–-teacher con fer ences

oc cur on any cri te rion about which stu dent and teacher scores differ widely

Eval u a tion of Writ ten Re search Prod ucts

Uses a va ri ety of sources 1 10

Con tains fac tual in for ma tion backed up by list of sources 1 10

In for ma tion is clear 1 10

Is neat and at trac tive 1 10

Uses cor rect spell ing 1 10

Uses cor rect punc tu a tion 1 10

In cludes de tails or elab o ra tions 1 10

Uses in ter est ing vo cab u lary 1 10

Uses cor rect gram mar 1 10

Fol lowed di rec tions 1 10

Eval u a tion of Nonwritten Prod ucts

(Score 1 = no to 10 = yes)

Pres ents core ma te rial in a cre ative way

Log i cally con nects topic and prod uct

La bels and let ter ing neat and cor rectly spelled

Is ac com pa nied by a list of sources of in for ma tion

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Re search ac tiv i ties are keyed to one or more of these na tional stan dards:

Na tional Stan dards in Read ing, Lan guage Arts, and In for ma tion Lit er acy

I Read ing-Com pre hen sion

A Use prior knowl edge to com pre hend

B Read to find out, in ter pret, solve prob lems

C Un der stand cause and ef fect/draw in fer ences

D De ter mine main idea and sup port ing ev i dence

E Para phrase/sum ma rize, com pare/con trast

F Dis tin guish fact from opin ion

G Use out lines, time lines, graphic or ga niz ers

H Con nect, re act, spec u late, in ter pret, ques tion

I Com pare, con trast to sup port re sponses

II Writ ing

A Write to ex press, dis cover, re flect

B Write to solve prob lems

C Choose ap pro pri ate form for pur pose

D Or ga nize ideas, use pre cise word ing

E Take notes and or ga nize writ ten ma te rial

F Rec og nize and use a va ri ety of non fic tion for mats in writ ing to in form

G Para phrase and sum ma rize text

H Pro duce a clearly writ ten, well-de vel oped re search re port with out copy ing

I Gen er ate and or ga nize ideas

J De velop drafts

K Re vise: add, de lete, com bine, re ar range, edit, proof read, eval u ate

L Self-eval u ate writ ten prod ucts based on spe cific cri te ria

III In for ma tion Lit er acy

A De velop ques tions in re sponse to in for ma tion needs

B Know char ac ter is tics and uses of a wide va ri ety of in for ma tion sources

C De velop a plan for se lect ing, eval u at ing, and us ing in for ma tion sources

D Lo cate and re cord in for ma tion De ter mine the best method for note tak ing

E Seek ac cu rate and com plete in for ma tion to make good de ci sions

F Re ar range find ings to cre ate new knowl edge and un der stand ing

G In ter pret and syn the size in for ma tion

H Share in for ma tion and ideas

I Ex pand knowl edge by pur su ing in for ma tion in a va ri ety of forms

J Re flect on strat e gies; re vise and re fine

K De velop prod ucts and cre ate orig i nal works

L Seek in for ma tion from a va ri ety of per spec tives

M Work ef fec tively in groups to de velop ques tions, pur sue in for ma tion, solveprob lems, and gen er ate knowl edge

N Seek out and en joy a va ri ety of lit er ary ex pe ri ences

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Part One Food for Thought

Wacky Food Facts

Americans consume an average of 20 billion hot dogs ayear

A piece of French toast left on his plate by JustinTimberlake was sold on eBay for $3,000

Chef Boyardee is a real person

Roasted spiders have three times the protein of cookedbeef

In Mexico the giant water bug is considered a treat

Favorite pizza toppings in India are pickled ginger, mincedmutton, and cottage cheese

Native Americans boiled and ate the 17-year locust

A favorite meal in China is bean worms, scorpions, andlocusts

If you visit an African country, you could be servedgrasshopper egg soup and white ants or weaver moths,eaten with their nest

Michel Lotito made it into the Guinness Book of World Records by eating an entire airplane.

WACKY VEGETABLES

AN ONION A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY!

Would you like a high-en ergy food, low in cal o ries, that helps you avoid 60 dis eases? How

about a low cho les terol, no fat food that fights the free rad i cals in your body, which cause de struc tion to cells? Try the lowly onion!

-Are you a B vi ta min freak? Want 20 per cent of your re quired vi ta min C ev ery day in a foodthat’s low in car bo hy drates? Need a po tas sium fix? Try the lowly onion!

Want to avoid a heart at tack? Half of a raw on ion a day will raise the good HDL cho les terol

30 per cent, in crease cir cu la tion, lower blood pres sure, and pre vent blood clotting

Sounds good, you say, but what about on ion breath? Easy! Just chew a lit tle pars ley

POTATO CHIPS THE RESULT OF AN ANGRY COOK

In 1853 George Crum was a cook at Moon Lake Lodge in Saratoga Springs, New York Onething that got George’s tem per up was a cus tomer who sent food back to the kitchen with a com -plaint Leg end says that Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of the wealth i est men in the na tion, dined onenight at the Moon Lake Lodge He or dered fried po ta toes and sent them back to the kitchen, say -ing that they were too thick The cook sliced some po ta toes thin ner and sent them out Once again the plate was re turned to the kitchen The po ta toes were still too thick!

George Crum lost his tem per He sliced po ta toes in pa per thin slices He fried them so crispythat they could not be picked up with a fork He grabbed the salt shaker and gave them a gooddose of salt Back the po ta toes went to the picky cus tomer George waited for the ex plo sion Heknew he would prob a bly lose his job But no ex plo sion came The po tato chips were de li cious!

Ev ery one at Vanderbilt’s ta ble wanted to try them It was n’t long be fore George be came fa mousfor his “potato chips.”

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ODE TO AN ONION

I am an on ion

I am clothed in gos sa mer lay ers of white

My great est need is to to guard my chem i cals which fight free rad i cals

My vi ta min C cous ins are nu mer ous and plen ti ful

My job is to raise the good type HDL cho les terolPro tein, car bo hy drates, so dium, and po tas sium lurk within my lay ers

I va ca tion be neath win ter snows

My great est de sire is to in crease cir cu la tion, lower blood pres sure, and pre vent blood clot ting

I am an on ion!

Re search Pro ject: Stan dards I-A; II-D, G; III-D, E F

Choose the po tato or an other fruit or veg e ta ble Re search its prop er ties, in clud ing its nu tri tional value Fol low this pat tern to in clude as much in for ma tion as possible

I va ca tion _

My great est de sire is _

I am Source

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NEWS RELEASE

This news re lease ap peared in the St Louis Post Dis patch and other ma jor news pa pers all

over the coun try on April 1, 1996 How do you know it is a hoax?

Taco Bell Buys the Lib erty Bell

In an ef fort to help the na tional debt, Taco Bell is pleased to an nounce that we have agreed to pur chase the Lib erty Bell, one of our coun try’s most his toric trea sures It will now be called the “Taco Lib erty Bell” and will still be ac ces si ble to the Amer i can pub lic for view ing While some may find this con tro ver sial, we hope our move will prompt other cor po ra tions to take sim i lar ac tion to do their part to re duce the coun try’s debt.

-FAST FOOD FACTS

The first fast-food res tau rant opened in the United States on July 7, 1912 It was the NewYork City Au to mat A coin was dropped in a slot and a win dow opened to re veal the food.White Cas tle was the sec ond It opened in Wich ita, Kan sas, in 1921 For the first time cus -tom ers could see the food be ing pre pared Five holes were added to each beef patty to speedcook ing Ham burg ers sold for five cents

Mc Don ald’s was opened by two broth ers in 1940 as a bar be cue drive in By 1948 it was fa mous for its ham burg ers, which cost 15 cents The sand wiches were sold in pa per wrap ping thatcould be thrown away

-Wendy’s was opened in 1969 in Co lum bus, Ohio, by Dave Thomas, who learned thefast-food busi ness from Col Harlan Sanders of Ken tucky Fried Chicken fame Wendy’s was thefirst to have a drive-through win dow

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FACT OR MYTH?

Here are pop u lar be liefs about food Re search and dis cover why each state ment is a fact or a

myth Cre ate a 16-page book ti tled FACTS AND MYTHS ABOUT FOOD On one page write astate ment about food Ask whether the state ment is a fact or a myth On the next page give the an -

swer and the ev i dence (re search) that sup ports the an swer Stan dards I-F; II-C, H; III-D–J

1 Cal o ries eaten at night are more fat ten ing

2 Skip ping break fast helps you lose weight

3 Your body can’t tell the dif fer ence be tween honey and sugar _

4 Low fat al ways means low cal o rie

5 You can eat shell fish on a cho les terol-low er ing diet

6 Ol ive oil has fewer cal o ries than other fats _

7 Frozen veg e ta bles are as nu tri tious as fresh ones _

8 Foods boast ing “0 trans fat” con tain “good” fats

Source: St Louis Post Dis patch, March 21, 2007

whole grains were used

ÑAn swer Key: 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8 are myths; 3, 5, and 7 are facts.

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KETCHUP ICE CREAM

A Baskin Rob bins re searcher was watch ing the pop u lar TV show All in the Fam ily and no ticed

that Archie Bunker, the head of the fam ily, put ketchup on ev ery thing, in clud ing his break fast eggs.The re searcher de cided that be cause Archie had made ketchup so pop u lar, ketchup ice cream might

be a best seller Baskin Rob bins of fi cials thought it was a great idea and cre ated ketchup ice cream.They ad ver tised it as the only veg e ta ble ice cream ever made They waited for big sales, which neverhap pened The pub lic pre ferred their veg e ta bles on their din ner plates and not in the des sert bowl.Ice cream was in vented in the United States in Phil a del phia in 1874 George Wash ing ton,Thomas Jef fer son, and Dolley Mad i son served ice cream at state din ners The ice cream conewas in vented in 1904 at the World’s Fair in St Louis, Mis souri In 1984 Ron ald Rea gan de claredthe month of July to be Na tional Ice Cream Month

Take a poll: your fa vor ite ice cream Poll ten class mates Stan dards I-G, H; III-D, G, H

Con clu sion: The fa vor ite ice cream fla vor re vealed in this poll is:

Try the same poll with boys, girls, adults, and stu dents in dif fer ent grade lev els Com pare

re sults

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THE TV WAS HIS DINNER

Michel Lotito’s par ents were wor ried Their nine-year-old son had strange eat ing hab its Noice cream and cake for him! He pre ferred pieces of metal, glass, and even parts of the fam ily TVset Even to day as an adult, an X-ray of Michel’s stom ach might show parts of bi cy cles, su per -mar ket carts, or airplanes

Ac cord ing to CNN news, Michel eats al most any thing He gained a place in the Guinness Book of World Re cords for con sum ing an en tire air plane, a Cessna 150 The cham pion eater

makes his liv ing giv ing dem on stra tions of his un usual eat ing abil ity In ad di tion to the air plane,

he has eaten 18 bi cy cles, 18 tele vi sion sets, and an entire coffin

Ex am i na tions by many doc tors re veal that Michel’s stom ach lin ing is twice as thick as a nor mal stom ach and that he has suf fered no ill ef fects from his strange diet Michel says that whennot per form ing, he eats reg u lar meals and is a very good cook

-Dic tio nary Fun: Choose the cor rect word Stan dards I-A, B, I

1 The word that best de scribes Michel’s ap pe tite for metal is:

A) for lorn B) vo ra cious C) con ta gious D) be nign

2 The word that best de scribes Michel’s per for mance is:

A) mys ti cal B) mag nif i cent C) ma lev o lent D) as ton ish ing

3 The word that best de scribes eat ing an air plane is:

4 The word that best de scribes Michel’s meals at home is:

A) mun dane B) un usual C) out ra geous D) orig i nal

5 The word that best de scribes what a doc tor look ing at Michel’s X-ray thinks is:

6 The word that best de scribes what Michel’s au di ences feel is:

A) re vul sion B) ad mi ra tion C) kin ship D) cu ri os ity

7 The word that best de scribes what Michel does for a liv ing is:

A) dole ful B) re spon si ble C) man da tory D) dar ing

8 The word that best de scribes Michel’s par ents when he was nine is:

A) un happy B) con fused C) cou ra geous D) tac i turn

ÑAn swer Key: 1-B; 2-D; 3-A; 4-A; 5-C; 6-D; 7-D; 8-B

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CHAMPION HOT DOG EATER

Ev ery Fourth of July an In ter na tional Hot Dog Eat ing Con test is held at Co ney Is land inBrook lyn, New York The women’s re cord for eat ing 37 hot dogs in 12 min utes is held by SonyaThomas Sonya is five foot, five inches tall and weighs 100 pounds, far less than most of herover sized com pet i tors

Sonya, who man ages a Bur ger Chef res tau rant in Mary land, trains for the many com pe ti tionsshe en ters She works out daily on a tread mill and does ex er cises to im prove her hand-eye co or di -

na tion, jaw strength, and stom ach ca pac ity Twice a week she eats dried squid, a chal lenge for any one’s jaw She eats only one meal a day, a chicken sand wich, large fries, and two 42-ounce dietcokes, to keep her stom ach stretched The con tests she has won in clude eat ing oys ters, meat balls,tater tots, and cheese cake She won the oys ter con test by eat ing 46 dozen oys ters in 10 min utes

-Re search the Food Pyr a mid Find out what a healthy diet is Com plete the pat tern be low Stan dards II-E, G, I; III-C, D, E, G, H

Be cause _ _

Be cause _ _

Be cause _ _

Be cause _ _

Be cause _ _

Be cause _ _

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THE GREATEST RECIPE

In 1962 a six-foot, two-inch-tall woman ducked as she walked through the doors of ra diosta tion WGBH in Boston Her name was Julia Child For the next 30 min utes she talked about her

new book, Mas ter ing the Art of French Cook ing She mixed in funny sto ries while she told lis

-ten ers how to baste, broil, dice, fold, melt, mince, sauté, and sim mer all kinds of foods She madeFrench cook ing sound easy Lis ten ers were so de lighted with the rec i pes she shared that Juliawrote more cook books and be came the most fa mous chef of French cui sine in the world, but

strangely enough, Julia cre ated her great est rec ipe be fore she learned to cook.

When Pearl Har bor was bombed on De cem ber 7, 1941, the United States went to war Juliawas de ter mined to go to war, too She ap plied to the Navy to join the WAVES The Navy saidNO! She was too tall Julia landed a job with a new spy agency, the Of fice of Se cret Ser vices(OSS)

In her early days at the OSS Julia worked in the Emer gency Res cue Equip ment Branch tohelp pi lots and air crews whose planes crashed at sea Sharks were the great est dan ger thedowned fli ers faced Sharks smelled the blood of in jured fly ers and at tacked them Sharks also

at tacked OSS di vers who at tached bombs to Ger man U-boats off the At lan tic Coast Along withoth ers, Julia worked night and day to de velop a shark re pel lent It needed to be some thing a flier

or a diver could re lease in the wa ter to drive away the deadly sharks

Julia did not have to know how to cook to stir up a shark rec ipe All she had to do was mixblack dye and cop per ac e tate It smelled like a rot ting shark One whiff of the aw ful stuff, and at -tack ing sharks turned and swam away The downed fli ers said it was a fine rec ipe! The OSS di -vers said it was a mar vel ous rec ipe! It was a rec ipe that saved hun dreds of lives It was Julia’sgreat est recipe!

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CREATIVE WRITING:

WRITING A FABLE

ABOUT SHARKS

Sharks live in all the oceans but are most numerous in warm seas

Their scaly bodies can be 40 feet long

When a shark’s tooth is lost, another grows in its place

Sharks follow ships for days at a time to pick up food thrown overboard

Some greedy sharks are continuously hunger As soon as they finish one meal, theylook for another

The 50-foot-long whale shark is harmless to bathers and sailors

Basking sharks of the Arctic Ocean like to come to the surface and bask in the sun.White sharks and blue sharks are man eaters

ABOUT FABLES

A fa ble is a short tale, usu ally fea tur ing two an i mals Its pur pose is to teach a moral or les

-son Use the in for ma tion above to write a fa ble fea tur ing sharks Stan dards I-F; II-C, H; III-D–J

Glid ing over the waves of the _ Ocean was a _ shark named Early one morn ing was when he spied a and thought to him self, “ .”The _ called out to the _, say ing

“ _.”The re plied,

“ .” It was at that mo ment that _ And learned that

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K RATIONS

Write a news pa per ar ti cle about K ra tions, an other food that came out of World War II.

Be gin with an in ter est-catch ing head line Stan dards I-E; II-C, D; III-D, E

HEADLINE

Para graph One: Who, What, When Where

Para graph Two: De tails

Para graph Three: Mi nor De tails

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Resources: Food

Resources: Food

Eat ing, by Claire Llewellyn Smart Ap ple, 2005.

Why you need to eat; smell ing, tast ing, di gest ing

Eat ing Right, by Helen Frost Peb ble Books, 2000.

Food guide pyr a mid with spe cific foods as ex am ples

Fairy Tale Feasts, by Jane Yolen Croc o dile Books, 2006.

A lit er ary cook book for young read ers and eat ers

Food for All, by Rufus Bellamy Smart Ap ple, 2006.

Ac tions taken to feed the world’s hun gry peo ple

From Milk to Ice Cream, by Stacy Taus-Bolstad Lerner, 2003.

Step-by-step pro cess in pro duc ing ice cream

George Crum and the Saratoga Chip, by Gaylia Tay lor Lee & Low, 2006.

Leg end ary tale of the first po tato chip

The His tory of Food, by Ju dith Jango-Co hen Twenty-First Cen tury Books, 2006.

Dis cusses many meth ods of pre serv ing foods

It’s Dis gust ing and We Ate It!, by James Solheim Si mon & Schuster, 1998.

True food facts from around the world

Julia Child, by Laura Shapiro Vi king, 2007.

Adult bi og ra phy of the fa mous chef

Junk Food, by Vicki Cobb Millbrook, 2005.

Six snack foods that have lit tle nu tri tional value

Kitchen Sci ence, by Pe ter Pent land Chelsea House, 2003.

Com bines sci ence and food prep a ra tion

Life and Times of the Pea nut, by Charles Micucci Hought on-Mifflin, 1997.

Grow ing and us ing pea nuts through out the world

The Math Chef, by Joan D’Amico Wiley, 1997.

Sixty math ac tiv i ties and rec i pes for kids

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On ions by Maria Rog ers Ad di son-Wes ley, 1995.

A cel e bra tion of the on ion through rec i pes, lore, and his tory

Pop corn by Elaine Lan dau Charlesbridge, 2003.

Where it came from; nu tri tion and rec i pes

The Sci ence Chef, by Joan D’Amico Wiley, 1995.

One hun dred fun food ex per i ments and rec i pes for kids

The Se cret Life of Food, by Clare Crespo Hyperion, 2002.

Pre par ing food shaped like a va ri ety of ob jects

Where Does Food Come From?, by Shel ley Rotner Millbrook Press, 2006.

From field to su per mar ket, the or i gin of many foods

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Part Two

On the Move!

Wacky Trans por ta tion Facts

The first automobile could not go as fast as a horse andbuggy

The world’s largest limousine is 47 feet long and has abuilt-in swimming pool

Police in Jackson, Mississippi, pulled over a weaving cardriven by a blind driver guided by a drunk passenger.Fifteen million Model T automobiles were made between

1908 and 1927 All were black

A bicycle has over 1,000 parts

It costs a large ship almost $50,000 to go through thePanama Canal

If the captain applies the brakes to a large ship, it takes three miles to stop

The first airmail flight in 1918 went by train

The average American will walk 75,000 miles in a lifetime

THE FIRST AIRMAIL FLIGHT: PLANE OR TRAIN?

May 15, 1918, was a day that would go down in his tory The first air mail flight from Wash ing ton, D.C., to New York was ready to go Pres i dent Woodrow Wil son and other im por tant of fi -cials gath ered for a cer e mony to watch the flight take off Lt George Boyle, the pi lot, was just out

-of flight school He was cho sen be cause -of fam ily and po lit i cal con nec tions Af ter a short speech, Pres i dent Wil son signed a let ter with the first air mail stamp When the let ter ar rived in New York

it was to be auctioned off for charity

The pi lot turned the switch to start the en gine Noth ing hap pened He tried a sec ond andthird time Noth ing hap pened Some one had for got ten to put fuel in the plane! Forty-five min utes later Lt Boyle took off to the sound of a laugh ing crowd Away the plane flew in the wrong

di rec tion! Af ter a flight of only 24 miles the pi lot was forced to land the plane in a farmer’s field,where it flipped over The young man was not hurt, and the mail was put on a train to its fi naldestination

A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

Rosalie Gordon was a show girl in Hous ton, Texas, when the Gates Air Cir cus came to town She had done some wing walk ing ear lier with the cir cus and con tacted Ivan Gates about do ingthe first para chute jump by a woman Rosalie was hired and prep a ra tions were made The crowdwas large as Rosalie climbed out onto the wing and jumped at a sig nal from the pi lot The girl fell

20 feet and was stopped by a vi o lent jerk Her para chute had failed to open She was hung up on arope still at tached to the plane, dan gling 20 feet into space The pi lot knew that land ing the planewould kill Rosalie, but the fuel sup ply was low What could be done? This and many other ex cit -ing tales of the early age of avi a tion are told in Barn storm ers and Dare dev ils, by K C.

Tessendorf (Atheneum, 1988)

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THE AVIATION FIRST NOBODY WANTED

In the First World War, com bat planes car ried one or two men On Jan u ary 6, 1918, Cap tainMakepeace was on a mis sion fly ing over Ger man ter ri tory The other man in the small plane wasCap tain J H Hed ley The trip, fly ing at 15,000 feet, had thus far been un event ful Then it hap -pened! Makepeace spot ted Ger man air craft head ing straight to ward him He put his plane in asteep dive to avoid the at tack ing planes The force of the dive lifted Cap tain Hed ley out of hisseat and into the sky Makepeace as sumed that Hed ley had fallen to his death as the plane con tin -ued to dive sev eral hun dred feet be fore lev el ing off It was then that Makepeace heard a thumpand felt a drag on the plane’s tail Hed ley had fallen in the right spot at the right time He held on

to the tail and soon was able to climb back into his seat, un hurt Both men were re lieved andamazed as Makepeace headed the plane safely back to base

Whose Flight Bag Is It?

Here are three fly ing aces of World War I Read about each in the en cy clo pe dia Match each with the list of con tents of his flight bag Stan dards I-B, D, H, I

Wil liam (Billy) Bishop

di ploma from Trent Col lege au to mo bile key chain de gree from Royal

pi lot’s cer tif i cate 94th Pur suit Squad ron flag Mil i tary Col legecup with Royal Fly ing Corps in sig nia $10 bill flag of the 60th

flag of the 11th Fighter Squad ron Medal of Honor Fighter Squad ron

com bus tion en gine cane with 72 notches

blue berry muf fin

ÑAn swer Key: 1 Al bert Ball; 2 Eddie Rickenbacker; 3 Wil liam (Billy) Bishop

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HIGHLIGHTS IN AVIATION

1903 Wilbur and Orville Wright make the first manned pow ered flight of 852 feet, last ing

59 sec onds

1911 First cross-chan nel flight, by Louis Bleriot, time 37 min utes.

1911 Har riet Quimby be comes the first U.S li censed fe male pi lot.

1921 Bessie Coleman be comes the first black fe male pi lot

1926 First U.S po lar flight, with Rich ard E Byrd as nav i ga tor and Floyd Bennett as pi lot.

1927 Charles E Lindbergh makes the first trans at lan tic flight in a mono plane.

1932 Amelia Earhart makes the first woman’s trans o ce anic solo flight.

1933 First round-the-world solo flight, by Wiley Post takes seven days and eigh teen hours.

1947 Charles E (Chuck) Yaeger breaks the sound bar rier at mach I.

1949 Capt James Gallagher and crew make the first non stop, around-the-world flight, in

The Lucky Lady II They re fuel in the air four times.

1973 First fe male pi lot of a ma jor U.S sched uled air line, Em ily Warner, is hired by

Fron tier Air lines as sec ond of fi cer on a Boe ing 737

1998 First fe male com bat pi lot to bomb an en emy tar get, Lt Kendra Wil liams, USN,

bombs en emy tar gets over Iraq on De cem ber 16, dur ing op er a tion Desert Fox

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THE SIMILE REPORT

A sim ile com pares two things us ing the words like or as Ex am ple: Her am bi tion was as

large as an el e phant’s dream

Iden tify the sim i les in the re port that fol lows.

A Sim ile Re port: Bessie Coleman, 1896–1926

Her family was as poor as an empty piggy bank when her father abandoned her motherand 12 children

As a child she gobbled up books like a hungry bear awakening in the spring Her mother taught her to read, knowing that the way out of poverty was education

Her dream to be a pilot was as impossible as an alligator with feathers, since no blackperson, and certainly no woman, could qualify as a pilot in 1919

She felt like a lost piece of luggage when she was turned down by every U.S flightschool because she was black and a woman

A friend was as generous as a Christmas Santa Claus when he gave her enough money

to enroll in a flying school in France

Her eyes lit up like stars when she earned her pilot’s license in 1921 in France, returned

to the United States, and was written about in the newspapers

Her flights were as dangerous as a bull charging a red flag when she performed all overthe country as a barnstormer, parachutist, and stunt flyer

The crowds packed her air shows like a subway car at rush hour to see her daring loopsand whirls

The nation’s tears flowed like a river at flood stage when, in 1926, Bessie was thrownout of her plane on a test flight without the parachute she usually wore

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FIRSTS IN AVIATION

The Sim ile Re port

Se lect one of these fly ers who made avi a tion his tory: Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright,Amelia Earhart, Charles E Lindbergh, Wiley Post, Rich ard E Byrd, Har riet Quimby, Em ilyWarner, Charles (Chuck) Yeager, or Capt James Gallagher

Com plete a sim ile re port about the per son Fol low each sim ile with in for ma tion that sup

-ports the sim ile Stan dards I-A–D; II-A, C, E, G, K; III-D–H

Cre ate sim i les us ing words from this list or other words of your choice:

clever con fi dent cu ri ous de ter mined ea ger

skill ful tough

Name .His/her fam ily was as as

As a child he/she like a _.His/her dreams were as as _.One prob lem was as as .He/she ap proached like He/she was as as _ when _.His/her flight(s) was/were as as .The re cep tion of the coun try was as as _ when _.Source

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RESEARCH SKILLS:

FIRST TO FLY IN A LAWN CHAIR

To get the com plete story, search the li brary shelves Find the topic rep re sented by each

Dewey Dec i mal num ber Write the topic in the space next to the num ber Stan dards III-B

Since the be gin ning of (1) 529 _ men have al ways dreamed of fly ing In 1982 a pi lot for Pan Amer i can (2) 387.7 _ ra di oed theLos An geles tower that he had passed a man in a fly ing lawn chair with a (3) 355 _ Ra dar soon con firmed that it was not a (4) 818 _ There was an un iden ti fied fly ing ob ject in the LAX air spacefly ing at 16,000 feet

The UFO was not from (5) 576.8 _ It was Larry Walters, who was mak ing his dream of fly ing come true Larry bought 45 (6) 551.6 (7)745.594 _ and tanks of he lium from a lo cal Army-Navy store Hepad ded his lawn chair and at tached the (8) 745.594 _ Other lines

an chored the chair to his (9) 629.2 _ His plan was to float around a few hours above his house, then pop the (10) 745.594 _with his pel let (11) 355 and de scend to (12) 550 _

Un for tu nately, when he cut the lines to take off, he shot up 16,000 feet, and there he driftedfor more than 14 hours Sto ries vary about how he fi nally reached (13) 550 _ One story says that the (14) 745.594 _slowly de flated and he came down in Long Beach An other story says Larry was float ing abovethe (15) 551.46 _ when a he li cop ter low ered a res cue line andhauled him to safety Af ter land ing he was ar rested for vi o lat ing LAX air space Which is true?You will have to ask Larry

ÑAn swer Key: 1-time; 2-Air line; 3-weapon (gun); 4-joke; 5-outer space; 6-weather;

7-bal loons; 8-bal loons; 9-au to mo bile; 10-bal loons; 11-weapon (gun); 12-earth;13-earth; 14-bal loons; 15-ocean

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CREATIVE WRITING:

THE MIRACLE GIRL

She Went to Bed on One Ship and Awoke on An other!

The night of July 25, 1956, was the last night of the voy age of the Andrea Doria Sail ing

from Genoa, It aly, to New York City, the ocean liner car ried more than 1,000 pas sen gers Thesea was shrouded in heavy fog Cap tain Piero Calamai re duced the ship’s speed, ac ti vated thewarn ing whis tle, and or dered all wa ter tight doors closed

Sail ing east to ward Swe den was an other ship, the Stock holm Cap tain Harry Nordenson was

not aware of the fog bank that they would soon reach With out warn ing, the two ships col lided

Four teen-year-old Linda Mor gan was asleep in her cabin when the Andrea Doria was struck

broad side The im pact lifted the girl out of her bed, threw her across the two ships, and dropped

her, with only a bro ken arm, on the deck of the Stock holm just as the ships scraped past each other and sep a rated “I was on the Andrea Doria,” she said “Where am I now?”

The col li sion re sulted in 51 deaths and hun dreds of in ju ries Linda’s story made head linesthrough out the coun try She was dubbed “The Mir a cle Girl.”

Cre ate a cinquain (five-line poem) about Linda Mor gan Stan dards I-A, B, D; II-A; III-G, H

Line 1: Name Linda Mor gan

Line 2: Two ad jec tives _ _

Line 3: Three verbs _, _,

Line 4: Four-word phrase _

Line 5: Syn onym MIRACLE GIRL!

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