Teacher Guide: Lesson 4.5
The Weekly Reader Connections feature on Kids' Place Houghton Mifflin Math provides your students with additional information about the topics that appear in the Curriculum Connection feature in their student books.
The article “Parks in Peril” educates students on the causes of numerous National Parks that are at risk of becoming endangered parks.
You may want to discuss with students whether they have been to a national park, memorial, or historic site. Ask why it might be important to preserve those sites.
Have students read the article on their own and then complete the Word Wise activity. The activity asks students to make a word web using one of the Word Wise terms. You may give students copies of the Word Web worksheet (PDF file) to help them complete this activity.
In the Data Hunt activity, students take a quiz based on information in a table that states the yearly attendance of ten National Parks. The students answer multiple-choice questions comparing the attendance numbers of the different parks.