Links for the common assessment

1. Sugar overload: clip from Australian news discussing how Jamie Oliver has convinced LA schools to ban chocolate milk. Citizens in Australia are interviewed about their feelings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ4wGDl56Zg

2. Flavored Milk: Tasty Nutrition: Video clip showing a nurse for the Mid-West Dairy organization explaining the benefits of chocolate milk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo3qsx05974

3. Schools may ban chocolate milk over adds sugar by Christina Hoag. ABC news. Describes the debate from each side.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=13559159

4. Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. Flavored milk versus white milk: What's the difference? Q & A with Dr. Sarah Jane Schwarzenberg, co-chair of MN-AAP's pediatric obesity task force

http://mnaap.org/pdf/1108chocolatemilk.pdf

5. Ad by the National Dairy Council showing benefits of chocolate milk.

http://www.nationaldairycouncil.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/child_nutrition/health_kit/FinalFl

6. Information about the benefits of chocolate milk from Trumoo (a company that sells chocolate milk):

http://www.trumoo.com/nutrition/benefits/

7. Moo TV: a video made my grade 4 students to campaign against chocolate milk. They were inspired by a video clip their teacher showed them (Jamie Oliver's show)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsU-­‐E57vea0

8. A study about students drinking less milk when only regular milk is offered. Study is funded in part, by Milk Processors Education Program

http://www.whymilk.com/studies_print.php?study=milk_consumption_in_schools_dropped

9. Raise your hand for chocolate milk: A video clip showing a dietitian who works for a Dairy organization explaining the benefits of chocolate milk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1XGy45F210

10 Raise your hand for chocolate milk: A video clip showing celebrities and authors of books on health discussing why they are pro chocolate milk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjKFlusW-­‐Xc&feature=related

Literacy Links for Nonfiction

Greetings!

It is very important as we read historical fiction to understand as much as we can about the time period in which the book takes place. Below you will find links to information that may help you understand more about different times in history. Enjoy exploring and reading more about the times your characters lived in.

Revolutionary War

www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle.html
www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/index.html
www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/revolut/jb_revolut_subj.html
www2.lhric.org/pocantico/revolution/revolution.htm
ethemes.missouri.edu/themes/935

The Great Depression

http://www.pbs.org/jessejones/jesse_greatdepression_1.htm

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html

http://www.kidskonnect.com/subject-index/16-history/267-great-depression.html

http://1930.mrdonn.org/SharingMemories.html

Slavery

http://africa.mrdonn.org/slavetrade.html

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/children.htm

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/northamerica/after1500/people/slavery.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/j1.html

Holocaust

http://www.pocanticohills.org/amprogress/holocaust.htm

http://frank.mtsu.edu/~baustin/holo.html