[ABCDE] VOLUME 8, ISSUE 10 SOMETHING FOR Summer PHOTOS BY LINDA DAVIDSON, GERALD MARTINEAU — THE WASHINGTON POST; SANDRA LEAVITT LERNER, BEN CHAPMAN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST INSIDE Beacons of Icons of Thrown Life, Coastal Summer For a On the 10 History 14 17 Loop 20 Wing June 8, 2009 © 2009 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY VOLUME 8, ISSUE 10 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program A Word About Something for Summer Lessons: Learning is a lifelong activity Each of the INSIDE online guides has a theme with suggested that does not take summer breaks. activities for use in two or more disciplines within different grades. The newspaper can be a key partner in In this June guide we just want to have summer fun as we read The developing an interest in many areas of Washington Post and learn. knowledge. Find physics at a baseball game, swimming pool or amusement park. Take a road trip to lighthouses or count dragonflies. Celebrate Level: Low to High a lunar walk and witness a solar eclipse. Many of the articles are Subjects: English, Science models for writing. Read about an icon or observe a group at a Related Activity: Health swimmin’ hole. Then write about an experience. The content reflects the diversity of subjects, approaches and sources that can be found in every issue of The Washington Post. Activities are suggested to inspire reading, writing and learning through a stroll down the street or short excursions of the imagination. The Post Sports section is exploring swimming coverage with more depth by giving every metro-area swimming team a page on a new Web site. Take the electronic plunge at http:reachforthewall. com. e- Think e- you are so e-busy you might miss Post coverage of an Replica eventReplica or topic? SetReplica up an e-Replica alert. NIE Online Guide Editor — Carol Lange Art Editor — Carol Porter Available Online All Washington Post NIE guides may be downloaded at www.washpost.com/nie. Send comments about this guide to: Margaret Kaplow, Educational Services Manager, [email protected] Cover Design: Collage by Carol Porter for The Washington Post 2 June 8, 2009 © 2009 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY VOLUME 8, ISSUE 10 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program Something for Summer Beaches Learning does not stop when the academic year ends. The Washington www.epa.gov/beaches/learn/pollution.html Post reports on many worthwhile activities, provides calendars Beach Pollution of events and includes maps for a Road Trip. This guide includes Environmental Protection Agency overview articles to inspire writing, reading and experiencing summer in the of causes and sources of water pollution at Metropolitan area. beaches Do a Crossword section. Older students may find www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/ Homophones sound alike and titles there that they will enjoy. Oceans, Coasts & Estuaries give some students problems EPA clearinghouse for programs and latest with spelling. After discussing the Find a Fossil information meaning of “homophone,” including Did you know that Maryland has its Greek root (homophonos: a state fossil? So does Virginia. www.nrdc.org/water/oceans/qttw.asp homos, same + phone, sound), give A KidsPost article, “X Marks the Beach Pollution students “Sounds Right to Me.” Fossil,” gives a new way to enjoy Natural Resources Defense Council Q and A Answers are found at the end of a walk along the beach and cliffs on beach pollution, press releases, stories and these suggested activities. lining the shores of the Potomac links to recommended sites Six pairs of homophones are River and Chesapeake Bay. found in the crossword puzzle. Discuss the article and locate the www.nationalgeographic.com/features/00/ Students might list the pairs of places mentioned on a map. Have earthpulse/reef/reef1_flash.html homophones found in the puzzle. any students found fossils? If you Great Barrier Reef For the remaining words, they have access, bring in examples of Take a National Geographic virtual dive off are to provide the homophone fossils to share. the northeastern coast of Australia correctly spelled. Students may also Visit the Smithsonian’s National be asked to provide three to five Museum of Natural History to view www.oceansatlas.com/index.jsp additional pairs of homophones. a much larger collection. Online UN Atlas of the Oceans Use the homophones in sentences select The Life of a Vertebrate Uses, issues and geography of the globe’s to distinguish them in meaning and Fossil (http://paleobiology.si.edu). oceans spelling. Encourage students to find a fossil during the summer break. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ Read a Book artsandliving/travel/ Summer is a great time to read Celebrate Lunar and Solar Events Travel just for fun. Books can be read to Two special events take place in Washington Post travel article archives; look follow a theme, explore an interest the summer of 2009. for articles about travel to islands and shores or learn about other people. Take July 20 is the 40th anniversary Flight, in the sidebar, provides of the Apollo 11 mission’s moon recent titles that celebrate the landing. Neil Armstrong took his 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 “small step” after the “Eagle” had mission, lunar landing and walk on landed on the surface of the moon. the moon. He and “Buzz” Aldrin collected KidsPost Reading Club in 2009 lunar samples for 21 hours, focuses on nonfiction books. Read then docked with the Columbia biographies, works about discovery, command module in which Michael history and science, animals and Collins had been orbiting the moon. plants. Visit the official NASA site Although The Post no longer has (www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ a Book World Sunday section, book reviews are found daily in the Style CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 3 June 8, 2009 © 2009 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY VOLUME 8, ISSUE 10 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 Just as Metro section reporters Take Flight were assigned to select and apollo/40th/index.html) for more write about an icon of summer, Bizony, Piers information. Set up an e-Replica ask students to select an icon of One Giant Leap: Apollo 11 Remembered alert to read Post coverage of the summer and write an essay. You Zenith Press, 2009 anniversary. determine if they are to include Space historian Bizony selected stunning “Apollo 11: One Giant Leap” is description, interviews (formal and images; essay and quotations provided for students to place the informal), and facts from research. 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 The entire Icons of Summer Daniels, Patricia mission and moon landing into series may be read at http://www. The New Solar System historic perspective as well as washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ National Geographic, 2009 think about the future of space content/linkset/2008/06/26/ On the 50th anniversary of NASA, guide exploration. LI2008062602770.html. The icons explores Earth’s planetary neighborhood; On July 22, a total solar eclipse included BBQ, mosquitoes, the photographs, diagrams, essays, fact boxes will take place. According to the hula hoop, swimwear and garden NASA Web site (http://eclipse. hoses. Teachers may wish to give Jacobs, Robert gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/TSE2009/ additional articles to students to Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts TSE2009.html), the “path of the analyze the approaches taken by NASA and Abrams Books, 2009 Moon’s umbral shadow begins in these reporters. Apollo missions 7-17, using photographs India.” Visit the NASA site and read selected by each of the 21 surviving Apollo The Post for coverage of this event. Count Birds and Dragonflies astronauts; foreword by Stephen Hawking Another summer activity in which and his daughter Lucy Write About a Summer Icon to be engaged — observing and During the summer of 2008, keeping a count of birds, dragonflies Platt, Richard and David Hawcock Metro’s annual summer series and butterflies — takes place in the Moon Landing: Apollo 11 40th Anniversary focused on the icons of summer. D.C. metropolitan area. Teachers Pop-Up Reporters were instructed to find may encourage students to be Candlewick, 2008 a story about a summer icon. Each involved in one of these activities NASA photographs, illustrations, pop-ups; had to determine a symbol of or establish your own count of flora dreams to technological reality summer and find the story. In this and fauna on school property and guide, we have included “Diving neighborhoods over the summer. Ross, Stewart Into the Mystic Waters of Memory,” What a great way to get to know Moon: Science, History and Mystery the reader’s chose for favorite story. students who will be in your classes Scholastic, 2009 Define “icon” and make a list of in the next academic year, establish The moon’s myths, influence on culture and examples under the categories of some protocols and have data to use the story of the preparation, journey and religion, culture, automobile and in the future. landing of Apollo 11 music. What qualities do the people Read “Life, on the Wing: and items listed as icons share? Dragonfly-Counting is a Reston Thimmesh, Catherine How do they differ? Lead discuss Ritual That Adds Up to Something Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed from these symbols to icons of Greater.” Dragonflies do not get Apollo 11 on the Moon summer. the attention that butterflies and Houghton Mifflin Books, 2006 Add another column labeled cardinals and rare wildflowers Historic flight from the perspective of the summer. Brainstorm possible receive, but in this piece readers behind-the-scenes people who made it events, items and members of the gain an appreciation for the insect.