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Please do not read this to the students.  This is a description for teachers, about the big ideas and key understanding that students should take away after completing this task.\nBig Ideas and Key Understandings\nIt is important to preserve and protect our environment; anyone can make a difference in their environment, even young adults.\nSynopsis\nThis nonfiction text discusses how a fourth grade class at Union Avenue School worked hard to protect the New Jersey shoreline by planting recycled Christmas trees in the sand. The trees prevent high tides from flooding sand dunes, which serve as animal habitats and also protect people’s homes.\nRead entire main selection text, keeping in mind the Big Ideas and Key Understandings.\nRe-read the main selection text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and teaching Vocabulary.\nDuring Teaching\nStudents read the entire main selection text independently.\nTeacher reads the main selection text aloud with students following along. (Depending on how complex the text is and the amount of support needed by students, the teacher may choose to reverse the order of steps 1 and 2.)\nStudents and teacher re-read the text while stopping to respond to and discuss the questions and returning to the text.  A variety of methods can be used to structure the reading and discussion (i.e.:  whole class discussion, think-pair-share, independent written response, group work, etc.)\nText Dependent Questions\nText-dependent Questions\nEvidence-based Answers\nRe-read the first paragraph. In your own words, summarize who and what is this article about. (Pg. 344)\nThis article is about a fourth grade class at Union Avenue School in New Jersey and their science project.\nWhat does the author mean when he says, “…nothing could topple the science project…”? (Pg. 344)\nThe science project is to reuse trees to prevent the loss of the sand dunes from the local beach. The students “planted\" used Christmas trees to protect the sand dunes.  Nothing could topple the project because the students were committed to the work and saving the sand dunes.  The students did not give up and kept looking for ways to fight erosion.\nThe fourth grade students designed a project to protect their town and the beach.  Using evidence from page 344, explain why sand dunes are so important.\nThe sand dunes act as a windbreaker.  They prevent the wind from blowing the beach sand away.  Sand dunes also stop ocean water from washing up past the beach.\nReread the text on page 345.  Explain how the students are reusing trees that are usually thrown away after Christmas.\nThe students buried the trees.  They stood them up in trenches.  The trees were buried in three trenches, each 100 feet long.\nUsing the text on pages 344 and 345, compare and contrast the recycled trees and the trees that were laid sideways on the beach.\nBecause the recycled trees have been buried, they do not move and they keep the sand dune in place.  The dunes hold together because of the buried trees.  Laying the trees sideways on the sand didn’t help because the trees were swept out to sea during the winter storms.\nThe students from Brigantine Middle School decided to build sand dunes also. 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