Cheryl E. Merritt
READING
SCIENCE
SOCIAL STUDIES
GRADES 5-8
BELOW AVERAGE TO ABOVE AVERAGE LEVELS
OBJECTIVES: Students will identify pollution problems in their immediate environment.
Students will identify the main idea of an article.
WHAT TO DO: Students will use newspapers and magazines to find articles on pollution. Each student must bring in one article per week for four weeks. Have them mount each article on construction paper and write one sentence that give the main idea of the article.