Unit 1: Images of Life
Reading 1A: The Visual Village
Complete the outline as you read The Visual Village.
Photography Then and Now
In the past:
In the present
Advantages: Disadvantages:
Unit 1: Images of Life
Reading 1B: My Journey in Photographs
Complete the flow chart of the life of Annie Griffiths as you read My Journey
in Photographs.
First job as a waitress
After picking up a camera…
Challenges faced Getting to National Things learned at the
Geographic Worthington Daily Globe
•
What is important to her in Life lessons
her career
•
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•
Unit 2: Natural Attraction
Reading 2A: Living Light
Complete the chart as you read Living Light.
Bioluminescence
on land
Bioluminescence
in the ocean
In the ocean’s upper layers…
Examples:
Blending in
Using light For Defense For Offense For Reproduction
Unit 2: Natural Attraction
Reading 2B: Feathers of Love
Complete the chart as you read Feathers of Love.
New Guinea’s Birds of Paradise
Description
Display behaviors
Purpose of colors
and behaviors
Development and
evolution
Problems
Unit 3: Food and Health
Reading 3A: How Safe is Our Food?
Complete the outline as you read How Safe is Our Food?
Bacteria in Healthy Humans Infected Fruits and With the right
animals… vegetables… conditions…
Bad Bacteria
What is PulseNet?
The way farm animals are
Bacteria in Food raised…
The responsibility lies not only with the cook,
but also
Consequences of consuming Solution from Costa Solution from
imported products Rica Sweden
Unit 3: Food and Health
Reading 3B: The Battle for Biotech
Complete the research table as you read The Battle for Biotech.
Biotech Foods
Description and
science of genetic
engineering
Arguments for:
Safety of GE foods
Concerns:
Pros:
Environmental
issues
Cons:
Potential for
eliminating world
hunger
Unit 4: Design and Engineering
Reading 4A: Design by Nature: Biomimetics
Complete the chart as you read Design by Nature: Biomimetics.
Animal Mimicked aspect from How it’s used in product
animal design
Thorny devil
lizard
Humpback
whale
Termites
Mosquito
Fly
Gecko
Summarize how biomimetics works and some of its drawbacks:
Unit 4: Design and Engineering
Reading 4B: Weaving the Future
Complete the outline as you read Weaving the Future.
Applications of Technology in Textiles
Synthetic Electronics in Textiles in the
Textiles Clothing Military
Invention of Nylon The Development Future Warrior Program
of Clothing
Hugues Vinchon’s Wearable Electronics Uses in the Military
Synthetic Fibers
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•
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•
Possibilities inspired by Clothing innovations in Development in
nature… the market… usage of textiles…
Unit 5: Human Journey
Reading 5A: The DNA Trail
Complete the flow chart as you read The DNA Trail.
Tracing DNA
START
“Mitochondrial Eve” and “Y-
chromosome Adam”
Asia
Africa to Western
Asia
Middle East to Central The Americas
Asia
Australia
THE END
Europe
Unit 5: Human Journey
Reading 5B: Fantastic Voyage
Complete the timeline of the Lapita and early Polynesian pioneers as you
read Fantastic Voyage.
The Lapita people
1300 to 800 B.C.
Using trade winds
El Niño
1,000 years later
The Polynesian civilization The success of the Lapita
descendants
Unit 6: Money and Trade
Reading 6A: How Money Made Us Modern
Complete the flow chart as you read How Money Made Us Modern.
Ancient Currencies
Accountants in Sumer Ancient Chinese
The Origins of Gold
The New Economic System The Start of Global Trade
Paper Currency: Virtual Bitcoin
Money
Major Advantage: Credit Cards
Unit 6: Money and Trade
Reading 6B: The Rise of Virtual Money
Complete the concept map as you read The Rise of Virtual Money.
Advantages: Disadvantages:
Definition: Virtual How it works:
Currency
Bitcoin:
Unit 7: Group Behavior
Reading 7A: A Crowd in Harmony
Complete the fact sheet as you read A Crowd in Harmony.
Name of festival
Description of
festival
Details of the
2013 Kumbh
Psychology of
belonging to a
crowd
How belonging to a
crowd improves
your health
Incident of “loss
of harmony”
Unit 7: Group Behavior
Reading 7B: Our Online Behavior
Complete the outline as you read Our Online Behavior.
3. Lack of Face-to-Face
Interaction 4. Bullying on Social
Media
1. Rise in Online
Aggression
Online Hate?
5. Author’s Conclusions
2. “You are whom you meet.”
Our Shared Reality… The Changing “Whom”…
Unit 8: Investigations
Reading 8A: Who Killed the Emperor?
Complete the chart as you read Who Killed the Emperor?
Possible cause of
Arguments for Arguments against
death
Political murder
Chemicals in the
wallpaper
Doctors’ mistake
Cancer
Revenge
Unit 8: Investigations
Reading 8B: In the Crime Lab
Complete the outline as you read In the Crime Lab.
Marcella Fierro Alphonse Poklis
Job Description
Procedure: Technologies: Memorable Case:
Unit 9: Rediscovering the Past
Reading 9A: Virtually Immortal
Complete the flow chart as you read Virtually Immortal.
Arriving The Queen’s Stepwell History of Rani ki Vav
Tour of Rani ki Vav Challenges Project Description
Near the Bottom of the 3-D Digital Copy Goal of the Expedition Team
Well
Unit 9: Rediscovering the Past
Reading 9B: Lure of the Lost City
Complete the timeline as you read Lure of the Lost City.
The Myth
1930s
1940 – 1954
1990s
2010
Feb 2015
The Discovery
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Unit 10: Healthy Living
Reading 10A: Living Longer
Complete the outline as you read Living Longer.
Salvatore Caruso “Pajarito”
Laron Syndrome
His Friends
The Gene Hunt
Protective Genes
2006 Study Island of Oahu “The Wellderly”
Unit 10: Healthy Living
Reading 10B: In Search of Longevity
Complete the chart as you read In Search of Longevity.
Sardinians Adventists Okinawans
Location
Person featured
Age of this
person
Details about
the region or
community
What are the
factors that
might account
for the people’s
longevity?
Unit 11: Green Solutions
Reading 11A: Saving Water
Complete the chart as you read Saving Water.
Water Shortage: A Global Problem
The extent of the •
problem
•
What happened there?
Castilla–La Mancha
What was the situation there?
Goratalai
What was done to help the people?
What was the situation there?
Durban
What was done to help the people?
Unit 11: Green Solutions
Reading 11B: Technology as Trash
Complete the outline as you read Technology as Trash.
Harmful Effects Recycling
• Burning it creates poisonous
Ideal solution because…
_____________.
• _____________ the environment
with toxic substances such as:
1. The problem is…
2.
3.
The Basel Agreement
E-waste
Accra, Ghana
Possible Solution
Israel Mensah’s Story
Unit 12: Earth and Beyond
Reading 12A: Planet Hunters
Complete the chart as you read Planet Hunters.
“hot Saturn”:
“hot Jupiter”:
Exoplanets
Others:
1.
Finding a 2.
planet
3.
Dwarf stars
Looking for
signs of life
The dream of astronomers:
The challenge scientists face:
Unit 12: Earth and Beyond
Reading 12B: The Threat from Space
Complete the timeline as you read The Threat from Space.
History of Asteroids
66 million years ago
June 30, 1908
35 million years ago
1954
August 10, 1972
March 22, 1989
June 18, 2004
2013
Deflecting Asteroids Asteroid Bomb
