Should plastic water bottles be banned? Text Set
Articles:
- “Is Bottled Water Really Better?” (Article from Scope Magazine, April 2013)
- “Is Bottled Water Really Better?” by Lauren Tarshis (Scholastic online)
http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3756291 - “The Battle Over Bottled Water” (Article by Sindya N. Bhanoo, March 24, 2010, New York Times’ Green Blog).
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/ the-battle-over-bottled-water/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0: - “Bottle Ban”—(By Hailee Romain, Scholastic News, March 12, 2014) http://magazines.scholastic.com/news/2014/03/Bottle-Ban
- “Drinking Water: Bottled or From the Tap?” (Article by Catherine Clarke Fox from National Geographic Kids). http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/spacescience/water-bottle-pollution/
- “Should Sales of Bottled Water Be Banned from Schools?”(Time for Kids) http://www.timeforkids.com/news/debate/30371
- “Bottled Water: Better Than the Tap?” (By Anne Christiansen Bullers, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FDA Consumer Magazine, July–August 2002) http://www.ncsu.edu/project/bio183de/Black/chemreview/chemreview_news/402_h2o.html
- “Don’t Touch the Water” (Article from Scholastic Scope, The Language Arts Magazine, March 2014).
- “What Are Some Advantages of Bottled Water?” http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/advantages-bottled-water-10179.html
- “Bottled Water Matters” http://www.bottledwater.org/economics/bottled-water-matters
- “Opinion: Bottled risk” by Brahma Chellaney, Project Syndicate. Available at different reading levels. https://newsela.com/articles/projectsyndicate-bottledwater/id/12567/
Books:
- Do You Know Where Your Water Has Been?: The Disgusting Story Behind What You’re Drinking (Sanitation Investigation) by Kelly Barnhill
- Human Footprint: Everything You Will Eat, Use, Wear, Buy, and Throw Out in Your Lifetime (National Geographic Kids) by Ellen Kirk
- The Water Cycle by Rebecca Harman
- The Magic School Bus At The Waterworks (P)
- One Well: The Story of Water on Earth by Rochelle Strauss
- The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming by Laurie David and Cambria Gordon
- A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder by Walter Wick (S)
- Water Pollution (A True Book) by Rhonda Lucas Donald (N)
- Our World of Water: Children and Water Around the World by Beatrice Hollyer
Multimedia:- “The Story of Bottled Water.” (Video created by “The Story of Stuff Project,” available on YouTube, March 2010). (0–2:04)
http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-bottled-water/ - “Good Stewards of the Environment.” (Video created by “Bottled Water Matters,” available on YouTube. Explains steps bottled water companies are taking to protect the environment.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iExU-NT-RlA
- “Most Bottled Water is Tap”—(from CNN report, May 21, 2008) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saSgpX186MM
- “Bottled Water: Always There When You Need It” (Video created by Bottled Water Matters July 30, 2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOBatcWe08c
- “The Story of Bottled Water.” (Video created by “The Story of Stuff Project,” available on YouTube, March 2010). (0–2:04)