One Great Text: Scienctists Plan Billion Dollar Journey To The Center Of The Earth

DOGOnews is a great website for both students and teachers. Students can make their own personal page where they can earn points and badges, follow other users, bookmar & share news, books, and movies, as well as express their opions about news, books, and movies. The website provides students with great websites and news articles on current events. They can chose articles from various subjects including science, sports, social studies, etc. They can also go on a tab that says maps and on there the map goes on different points and talks about current events going on around the world. I think this is a great website for students to use in any content area but most especially science.

I chose the article entitled “Scientist Plan Billion Dollar Journey To The Center Of The Earth” to share with an 8th grader and a 10th grader. The article talks about how an international team of scientist are on a mission to ‘Explore the Earth Under the Sea’. They want to reach the mantle and extract samples and it talks about how they plan to accomplish their goals. Both students seemed to be very interested in the article. The 8th grader said it was “pretty cool, a little extreme” she also stated that it was a little difficult to read because of the big words being used, she kind of understood it and the pictures helped. However, she tought, after reading the article, that it is not possible and thinks its a waste of money. The 10th grader, on the other hand, believes this is possible and that he hopes they find something that won’t melt to be able to get to the mantle. He stated that it was easy to read, he understood, and disagreed with the fact that it was a waste of money. He tought it was important to find out whats under the crust.

This is the URL to the article: http://www.dogonews.com/2012/10/7/scientists-plan-billion-dollar-journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth