In this module, students investigate deforestation of Africa. The module is designed for a science, social studies, and language arts teacher to divide the reading materials and mini-tasks so that students are working on some tasks in science class, some in social studies, and the remaining in language arts. Each teacher can then have students discuss the content from each disciplinary perspective, enriching the content. A chart showing which mini-tasks were taught by each teacher is included. In this module, students write an essay, but the Teaching Task can be modified to have students write a newspaper article, PowerPoint, or speech. Lexile level of articles begin on 7th grade level and extend to above 8th grade level. In the instruction, differentiation is written so lower students can access this reading material. The articles are only suggestions and teachers using the module may wish to update articles each year.
