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STANDARD OF THE WEEK
EARTH SCIENCE STANDARD—
Understanding how changes
in weather affect people on
Earth. Students will learn about
a family that survived a tornado
in Georgia.
Read-Aloud Background
■ Tornado Trivia: • Tornadoes have created paths of
damage ranging anywhere from
7 miles to more than 200 miles long.
• The United States is located in the
the part of the world that is most
affected by tornadoes. About 1,000
tornadoes occur in the U.S. each year.
• The word tornado comes from two
Spanish words: tronada (troh-NAHdah, which means thunderstorm, and
tornar (tor-NAHR), which means to
twist or turn.
• In the Northern Hemisphere,
tornadoes spin in a counterclockwise
direction, which is opposite to the
way the hands on a clock move. In
the Southern Hemisphere, tornadoes
spin in a clockwise direction.
• When a tornado moves over a body
of water, it is called a waterspout.
• Most tornadoes last for only a
few minutes.
• Before a tornado occurs, the air
becomes very still. The sky may turn
a greenish color, and large hail, or
balls of ice, may fall from it.
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Questions and Answers About
Tornadoes and Hurricanes by Melvin
and Gilda Berger (Scholastic, 2000).
Answers available
in printed version.
Supersize
Stingray..........page 3
LIFE SCIENCE STANDARD—
Understanding the
characteristics of organisms
and environments. Students will
learn about the largest freshwater
fish ever caught with a fishing rod.
Read-Aloud background
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• Most stingrays range in width from
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• Stingrays are hard to see. They
often bury themselves in sandy
river and ocean bottoms.
• If stepped on or bothered, a stingray
may lash out with its whiplike tail. A
stingray’s tail is serrated, or sawlike.
It can cut and tear through skin, and
even through a wooden boat!
• Stingrays have no bones. Their
skeleton is made up of cartilage, just
like skeletons of sharks.
CRITICAL THINKING
■ Evaluate: Would you have released
the giant stingray back into the river?
Why or why not?
ReferencE
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www.enchantedlearning.com
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healthy school and community
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personal health. Students will
learn about a recent study that
found that recess helps students
perform better in school.
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recess helps students learn how to
interact with each other and helps
relieve stress. They also found
that about 30 percent of students
in the U.S. get little or no recess.
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concerned about playground injuries.
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Type of Damage
EF-0
65 to 85 miles per hour
(mph)
Winds can cause some damage
to sides of, and shingles on,
homes and buildings.
EF-1
86 to 110 mph
Winds can uproot trees
and overturn mobile homes.
Flagpoles bend.
EF-2
111 to 135 mph
Most mobile homes are
destroyed. Permanent homes
can shift off their foundations.
Flagpoles often break. Bark
comes off softwood trees.
EF-3
136 to 165 mph
Houses are almost completely
destroyed. Bark comes off
hardwood trees.
EF-4
166 to 200 mph
Well-built homes and large
sections of school buildings
are destroyed.
EF-5
Above 200 mph
Mid- and high-rise
buildings are destroyed.
Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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April is National Poetry Month. Celebrate it by writing a cinquain (SING-kayn).
A cinquain is a five-line poem. This type of poem uses nouns, adjectives, and verbs
to describe a topic. Read the example below. Then, write your own cinquain.
April
warm, breezy
digging, planting, watering
flowers will soon bloom
Spring
_________________________________
one noun that tells what your poem is about
___________, ___________
two adjectives that describe your topic
___________, ___________, ___________
three action verbs that end in –ing
_________________________________
a four-word phrase that tells more about your topic
_________________________________
another noun that tells about your topic
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