Water
For each of the text sets, there are some additional suggestions of articles listed and a few possible new questions the club might discuss. Note that these are just a few of the questions students could discuss—the best situation would be that they come up with their own questions—the ones below are only meant as a guide. Students can also discuss ideas rather than questions.
Water and Global Warming Additional
Text Set
What is the biggest problem concerning water today?
What should be done?
What should we do about global warming?
• Detroit Residents Complain The City Shut Off Their Water Without Warning” (By Detroit Free Press, adapted by Newsela staff 09.28.14)
• “What’s Best for Kids: Bottled Water or Fountains?” (By Eliza Barclay, National Geographic News, March 3, 2010)
• New Aquafina Bottles Reduce Plastic Use by 50 Percent
• “Swirling seas of plastic trash” (Article by Amanda Rose Martinez from StudentScience.com, June 22, 2011).
• “There’s a Horrifying Amount of Plastic in the Ocean. This Chart Shows Who’s to Blame” by Tim McDonnell
• “Plastic Problem” (from SuperScience Magazine, April 2015) NEED SIGN IN CODE
• “Bum Wrap: Does Plastic Deserve to Be Trashed?” by Mary Beth Cox (Odyssey, Nov/Dec 2014) NOT AVAILABLE
• “Ready: Build a Kit”—water
• “Food and Water in an Emergency” (pages 7–12)
• “Ethos® Water Fund”
• “I Don’t Understand Ethos Water”
• “A ‘Humanitarian Campaign’ to Sell Bottled Water” by Anne Landman
• “The Fifteen-Year-Old President” (charitywater.org)
• “Global Water Crisis (Explore the Issue)”
• “Water Inequality Facts”
• “Well, well, it’s World Water Day” by Karen Brazell
• “World Water Day” by Karen Fanning
• “California’s governor orders people and towns to use a lot less water” (By Los Angeles Times, adapted by Newsela Staff)
• “Jay-Z’s Battle for Clean Water” by Martin Bashir
• “NY02 Is Announced As The ‘Official Water’ Of Jay Z’s Roc Nation” by Keith Nelson, Jr.
• “Celebrities and Bottled Water: Spoiled, Misinformed, or Just Plain Weird”
• “Bottled Water Myths” (from IBWA website)
Water and Global Warming Additional
Text Set
What is the biggest problem concerning water today?
What should be done?
What should we do about global warming?
• Detroit Residents Complain The City Shut Off Their Water Without Warning” (By Detroit Free Press, adapted by Newsela staff 09.28.14)
• “What’s Best for Kids: Bottled Water or Fountains?” (By Eliza Barclay, National Geographic News, March 3, 2010)
• New Aquafina Bottles Reduce Plastic Use by 50 Percent
• “Swirling seas of plastic trash” (Article by Amanda Rose Martinez from StudentScience.com, June 22, 2011).
• “There’s a Horrifying Amount of Plastic in the Ocean. This Chart Shows Who’s to Blame” by Tim McDonnell
• “Plastic Problem” (from SuperScience Magazine, April 2015) NEED SIGN IN CODE
• “Bum Wrap: Does Plastic Deserve to Be Trashed?” by Mary Beth Cox (Odyssey, Nov/Dec 2014) NOT AVAILABLE
• “Ready: Build a Kit”—water
• “Food and Water in an Emergency” (pages 7–12)
• “Ethos® Water Fund”
• “I Don’t Understand Ethos Water”
• “A ‘Humanitarian Campaign’ to Sell Bottled Water” by Anne Landman
• “The Fifteen-Year-Old President” (charitywater.org)
• “Global Water Crisis (Explore the Issue)”
• “Water Inequality Facts”
• “Well, well, it’s World Water Day” by Karen Brazell
• “World Water Day” by Karen Fanning
• “California’s governor orders people and towns to use a lot less water” (By Los Angeles Times, adapted by Newsela Staff)
• “Jay-Z’s Battle for Clean Water” by Martin Bashir
• “NY02 Is Announced As The ‘Official Water’ Of Jay Z’s Roc Nation” by Keith Nelson, Jr.
• “Celebrities and Bottled Water: Spoiled, Misinformed, or Just Plain Weird”
• “Bottled Water Myths” (from IBWA website)
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“Kids and Recycling (part 5)—How are plastic bottles and caps recycled?” By CQ Goes Green |
“Recycling Plastic Water Bottles”
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