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Ecology Plan 2: Current Event Intro

9/11/15

Do Now:

• Turn in your CER worksheet (stairs).

• On NB page 7:– Do scientists use only their research and

observations to make claims? – How else can a scientist gather

evidence?5 minutes

Look to your right!

• Check out the bulletin board.

• What’s a Current Event?

How to Sign Up…• Go to one of the approved sources.

• Find an article you’d like to use.– It must be more than 3 paragraphs.– Make sure it has some sort of graphic.

• Sign up under your period number. Make sure you write the full title & date.

• If someone has already chosen that article, you may not use it!!!

Let’s see the

difference between a

well written current

event and a poorly written

one.

Table Folders… Go!

• Find the article titled “Poland’s Mysterious Crooked Forest”

• Let’s read through it together.

Poland's Mysterious 'Crooked Forest'

By Meera Dolasia on 10/11/2011

Take a stroll inside the pine forest near Gryfino in Northwest Poland and you will feel like you were just transported to Harry Potter's 'Forbidden Forest' - thanks to the 400 eerily curved pine trees.

The odd part is that the pine trees surrounding this tiny area, dubbed 'Crooked Forest' are all straight as arrows - Just the way they are supposed to be. So how did these specimens turn out so cool-looking?

While nobody knows for sure, the theory is that the trees are shaped this way, thanks to human intervention, with the saplings allowed to grow for about ten years and then pinned down in a way that they emerge with a 90° bend, before straightening out again. Some locals believe it was the handiwork of special carpenters from the German special forces in the 1930's - for use in boat hulls and furniture. But, the trees were never harvested because of the chaos created when the World War 2 broke out in 1939.

However, the expert lumberjacks of the Gryfino forest disagree - Given that pine trees are not good for either furniture or boat hulls, they think that the trees in this area just naturally grew in this eerie manner. Whatever the real reason, we sure are glad they are here for all of us to enjoy!

Resources: Dailymail.co.uk, news.discovery.com

Samples:

• In your folder, there are samples of two completed Current Events.

• Look at them with your table partner.

• Use the rubric given to grade them.

• Which one did you grade higher?

• Why?

#1: Look at the title. Write down what you already know about the topic?

Poorly written response

Well written response

I know the forest has crooked trees.

I know that Poland is a country in Europe. I also know that a mystery involves some type of situation that must be solved so there must be clues somewhere to help figure out why the trees are crooked. Trees usually grow straight to get sunlight.

#2: Turn the heading into a question.

Poland's Mysterious 'Crooked Forest'

What does the term “crooked forest” mean? Why is this a mystery? Is the shape of the entire forest crooked or are the trees crooked?

Well Written response

Poorly written responseWhy are the trees in Poland crooked?

3.My article contained (circle all that apply) picture with a caption, map, chart, or graphs?

By looking at these visual representations, I learned…

Poorly written response

Well written response

I learned that there are crooked trees in Poland

I learned that many of the trees in this forest are crooked. They all bend in the same direction and on the same curve. There is nothing holding the trees in place.

4. This article contained which type of information? Circle all that apply: Facts, reasoned judgment, speculation. Provide evidence.Poorly Written Example

Well written Example

Facts: The trees are crooked.

Facts: Crooked trees have been found in a forest in Poland.

Speculation: “Some locals believe it was the handiwork of special carpenters from the German special forces in the 1930's - for use in boat hulls and furniture. But, the trees were never harvested because of the chaos created when the World War 2 broke out in 1939.”

5. Choose one domain specific vocabulary word fromyour article. Define it using your own words.

Sapling - a sapling a a smaller, younger tree. It is easily bent and vulnerable to damage.

Well written response

Poorly written response

Forest - A large group of trees.

6. Using SEVEN sentences only, what was the central idea of this article?

This article tells about a forest in Poland. The trees in the forest have all grown first to the side, then straight up. All of the other trees in the surrounding forest have grown straight. This has left a mystery to be solved about the crooked trees. Some believe that people strapped down the trees in their first ten years of life then left them to grow on their own. They think that the wood was to be used in making hulls of ships and for furniture around the time of World War I. It would be interesting to see if scientists can solve the mystery.

Fact, Reasoned Judgment & Speculation

• Let’s read through a few articles and determine whether they are based on:– Fact– Reasoned Judgment– Speculation

Use the articles labelled “A, B & C”

Closure

• Questions?