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Common Core State Standard
SL.CCS.1/2/3/4 Grades 6-12: An essay of a current news event is provided for discussion to encourage participation, but also inspire the use of evidence to support logical claims using the main ideas of the article. Students must analyze background information provided about a current event within the news, draw out the main ideas and key details, and review different opinions on the issue. Then, students should present their own claims using facts and analysis for support. FOR THE WEEK OF SEP. 15, 2008 New super collider has huge WOW factor - and a 'Big Bang'![]() ![]() This scientific breakthrough shows how classroom topics connect to real-world news. Find at least one other instance from any subject area.
![]() Journalists use familiar language and basic explanations to educate readers about complex topics such as this. Look for or other coverage that presents a clear, readable description of something you didn’t know. Are any strange terms explained?
![]() Scientific principles are part of everyday life, though we may not think of them as science. How many examples can you spot in news photos?
This gee-whiz news sounds like science fiction, but is science reality. Last week in Geneva, Switzerland, international researchers started up the world's biggest, costliest machine - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a sophisticated device that sends sub-atomic particles too small to see zipping around a 17-mile underground loop at nearly the speed of light.
The goal is to smash the components of atoms - called protons - together in attempts to learn about their structure. The powerful new tool lets scientists recreate conditions found at the instant of the "Big Bang," a phrase that describes how physicists believe our universe was created. Essentially, this "super-collider" is a super-advanced experiment aimed at solving nature's oldest and most puzzling mysteries: The collider tube buried along the French-Swiss border took 25 years to plan, $6 billion to build and involved over 9,000 scientists from more than 80 nations. This experiment -- like all of physics -- is based on the principle that the complex universe is orderly and rational, conforming to mathematical equations.
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