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Common Core Texts Grade 5

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Module	Resources
1	"Universal Declaration of Human Rights"(United Nations) "Universal Declaration of Human Rights: For Youth" (United Nations) "UDHR Article Strips" - Adapted from Web site: Human Rights Here and Now: Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, edited by Nancy Flowers, University of Minnesota Human Rights Resource Center "A Short History of the UDHR" - Expeditionary Learning Human Rights Resource Center, background information on the UHDR: excerpt from "The History of the United Nations." "From Kosovo to the United States," Isau Ajeti (as told to Blanche Gosselin) "Teaching Nepalis to Read, Plant, and Vote" by Lesley Reed (from Faces) "Background texts about Mexico in the 1920s" - Expeditionary Learning "Esperanza Rising" (Readers Theater script) "American Heroes" (Readers Theater script) "Writing Transitions" (excerpt from The Writing Lab & the OWL at Purdue and Purdue University ) "American Heroes" - Readers' Theater script Aaron Shepard’s RT Page, Scripts, and Tips for Reader’s Theater UNICEF Oxfam "A summary of the rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child" (UNICEF) Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNICEF)
Image Links for Module 1, Unit 2	Mexico: Government and Revolution Links General links via Library of Congress Portrait of Porfirio Díaz Images of Mexico during the Carranza revolution against Huerta’s government (LOT 9563-16) El Presidente Álvaro Obregón “Rebel Soldiers, Chihuahua, Mexico,” 1910–1920s Mexico: Neighbor to the North Links General images from Library of Congress U.S. and Mexico state line (1915) (Getty Research Library) Diego Rivera on Artsy.net Mexico: Rich versus Poor Picture of working family in Mexico, 1913: [Use with credit line] From the Robert Runyon Photograph Collection [image number 00048], courtesy of the Center for American History, the University of Texas at Austin.
Suggested Resources for Module 1, Unit 2, Lesson 5	California: Depression Era: 1930s: Repatriation for Mexican & Filipino Farm Workers Farm Labor in the 1930s Hispanic Americans: Migrant Workers and Braceros (1930s-1964) Immigration from Mexico: Immigration...Mexican The Great Depression: The Depression & World War II
2	"Sloth Canopy Researcher: Bryson Voirin" (from the Biomes of the World Web site, copyright © 2002–2012 by UntamedScience.com and Bryson Voirin) "Hawaii's Endangered Happy Face Spider" - Expeditionary Learning, 2012 "Live Online Interview with Eve Nilson" (Special Issues: Inside the Rainforest) "The Wings of a Butterfly: A Tale of the Amazon Rainforest" by Aaron Shepard (Cricket, Mar 2011, 38:6: 15–18) "Great Bear Rainforest Remote Camera Project" [Video by Twyla Roscovich] The official website of Dr. Meg Lowman Interview with Sloth Canopy Researcher: Bryson Voirin (courtesy of UntamedScience.com) "Climate Change Experiment Tracks Lizards and Butterflies" (Video) Field Notes On Science & Nature (Harvard University Press) "Birds in Town & Village" by W. H. Hudson "Pictures: Fire Ant Swarms Form Living Life Rafts" "Ants" (from National Geographic) "Ant Expert Groups Texts: Ant Group 1 - Bullet Ants" - Expeditionary Learning "Ant Expert Groups Texts: Ant Group 3 - Leafcutter Ants" (from The Virtual Rainforest by Dr. Gerald Urguhart, Michigan State University) "Ants - Life Cycle Graphic" (from Enchanted Learning) "Learn about Butterflies: The Complete Guide to the World of Butterflies and Moths" "Rainforest Butterflies Video: Buttefly Eggs and Caterpillar Survival - Life in the Undergrowth" (6:32) "Rainforest: The Most Precious Environment on Earth" by Adrian Hoskins - Expeditionary Learning Monarch Butterfly (from National Geographic) "Howler Monkeys" (from National Geographic Kids) "Howler Monkey" (video) -( from ThinkJungle.com) "Howler Monkey" (from National Geographic) "Quote from R.T. Peterson" - Roger Tory Peterson (scroll down to "Drawings vs. Photographs) Greetings from NY (postcard images on USA.gov) Smithsonian Libraries USA.gov: Government Made Easy: Ant Close Up USA.gov: Government Made Easy: Butterfly Close Up Rainforest Insects Alex Wild Photography
2a Gallery Walk	Doing field research in the rainforest Anna and Marco measuring trees’ growth in the Atlantic rainforest Rainforest conservation volunteer opportunities New way to help farmers deal with climate change Clues from the rainforest could help scientists solve energy problems
2b	“Dr. James Naismith, Inventor of Basketball” “First College Basketball Game” “Big Thinkers: Was Steve Jobs this Generation’s Thomas Edison?” (Junior Scholastic. 11/21/2011, Vol. 114 Issue 6, p5-5) “Television Takes the World by Storm” (video excerpts) “The TV Guy” “TV Turns On” by Claudia Reinhardt and Bill Ganzel “Garrett Morgan: Inventor Hero” by Paula Morrow (Ask Magazine) “The Twofold Genius of Garrett Morgan” (Social Studies for Kids) “Garrett Augustus Morgan” (excerpts) “Airplane.” The New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Online, 2013. Web. Sept. 16, 2013 (excerpts). “Invention of the Airplane” by Shashank Nakate (excerpts) “Wright Brothers: Inventors of the airplane,” (Ducksters, Technological Solutions, Inc. [TSI]) “How Did We Learn to Fly Like Birds?” (excerpts)
3a	"It's Not Just a Game!" by Lori Calabrese "Roots of American Sports" by Phyllis Goldman, Allosaurus Publishers "Sports in America" (U.S. State Department) "Roberto Clemente's Gifts From the Heart" (Scholastic News) "Althea Gibson (Sunrise-Sunset)" from Los Angeles Sentinal (scroll past Wilma Rudolph to find Althea Gibson) "H.R. 4130: The Althea Gibson Excellence Act" from the 112th Congress, March 1, 2012
3b	Video: "Ground Rules: Chapter 3" "Deforestation in Canada"