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Academic Standards

 

Reading Objective:

Students will discover how kids at one school tested a solution for keeping their playground cool.

 


Social and Life Skills:

health and safety, summer safety

 


Science Focus:

heat absorption and reflection, scientific process

 

ELA Skills:

key details, vocabulary, writing, create visuals

 

Page 4 Skill:

double bar graph

 

Vocabulary:

asphalt, absorb, reflect, compared

 

CCSS:

RI.2.1 key details; RI.2.2 identify main topic; RI.2.3 describe steps in a procedure; W.2.8 writing; SL.2.1 collaborative conversations

 

Lexile level: 

530L

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