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Oil Spill A Huge Mess

Price: $2.99, format: 7 page PDF, grades: K,1,2,3,4,5

Reading about current events helps students understand the world in which they live. Disasters such as oil spills or earthquakes also help young readers identify ways in which communities help each other out. In this issue students will read about an oil spill, its impact on the environment and how people respond to an emergency to protect the environment - including what children can do to make a difference.

In this issue students will:

• study a current event
• learn how a disaster happened and what is being done to fix it
• identify cause and effect using the newspaper
• understand positive ways to affect the environment - even if you're a kid!
• learn about animals that live in or near the Gulf of Mexico