Activity: Assess student commitment and skill at completing assignments, introduce scientists as storytellers as more robust than newspersons. 

Pre-Activity:  Homework to find a news article on seals, summarize in own words, and post in online workspace.

Do Now:  Find two neighbors with different news stories than yours and find out what was in theirs, and tell them yours.

Aim:  To understand that science is made up of people telling each other stories (theories) with evidence.

Major Assignment:  Examine the qualities of news versus science journal publication.

Processes, Skills, Goals:  Reading, oral and written communication (from immediate quiz to have students write what they learned from their neighbors).

Content:  News articles, CREATE article, Science Journals, Articles.

Instructions:  Students discuss their articles, and then are challenged to summarize who told them what (or collected as a graded "What I Got" quiz)in their notebooks.  Students not performing Do Now assignments receive appropriate feedback, as do performers.  That segues into discussion on news versus science articles.  Students are given short science article and class examines differences through teacher-guided inquiry.

Materials:  Notes on differences between news and science articles, copies of CREATE article.

Guiding Questions:  What did the news article tell you?  Do you think it advanced the understanding of an aspect of science for society?  What did you think about the science article on which the news article was based?  What were the prerequisite skills for the reader to understand each article?  How long would it take the average person to get the "message"?  How would they be different afterward?  How would the publisher be different?

Homework:  Read and prepare to discuss CREATE article.