Children return to school Mon 8th April

Year 5 Summer 2 Reading Challenge

Hi Year 5,

Your challenge is to read through this article (click on the link): http://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2014/aug/27/do-dams-destroy-rivers

The article is on whether dams destroy rivers – you need to read it through all the way to the end (you may need to look up any words you are unfamiliar with). This is a challenging piece, but it is an opportunity to push yourself.

BRONZE CHALLENGE:

Identify the facts and opinions in the article.

SILVER CHALLENGE:

Identify the opinions and write the alternative viewpoints for each opinion.

GOLD CHALLENGE:

List the facts present and then use these to write a balanced argument about whether dams are good thing or not. You need to explain your answer, using the facts you have listed.

Give this a really good go Year 5 – you have all made some brilliant progress this year, this is an opportunity to show it off!

90 responses to “Year 5 Summer 2 Reading Challenge”

  1. Samuel K.

    NASA stands for nastionl

    1. Head Teacher

      Ok, the N is national or is it, and the rest is?

  2. Samuel K.

    NASA space
    Been powerful

  3. Hanna A.

    BRONZE
    facts-Dams destroy natures habitat.
    opinions-The more richer they are the more changes they make.

  4. Theo D.

    Bronze

    Facts: The notion that some static measure of biodiversity is good and any change is bad is not substantiated by natural history.

    Opinion: what we need to take from this debate is realisation that we know live in an anthropocene world,whose form is increasingly structured and sustained through human decision.

  5. Mariam H.

    The dams were fighting because they hate each other and they don’t want to so roads are crashed and they are smashed

  6. Lyba A.

    Facts:
    Indeed,dams do changs the world and it’s natural environments.
    Ultimately dams change river.

  7. Sariyyah A.

    Bronze challenge
    I think that the opinion is that dams can change rivers and the fact is that dams do change there world in its natural environment.
    Silver challenge
    The opinion is that dams do not destroy the rivers.
    Opinion control how much power you have.

  8. Lataya J.

    DO DAMS DESTROY RIVERS
    MIKE MULLER
    I think Mike Muller doesn’t agree with the theory as a human we change the environment with other thing we build such as cities,roads and airports.

    VERDIT
    It’s not the dams that are a problem to the environment.It is how many dams are being built in unfit countries as they do not have enough water base in such countries.

    COLIN THORNE
    Reflecting back to the theory Colin agrees we do no need dams however we do need cities,roads and airports as they are useful to people who like travelling

    by lataya jackson

  9. Aleem H.

    Facts
    Dams destroy nature’s habbitat.
    Also dams destroy our clean river that gives us water but give us power source.
    Opinions
    The more richer they are the more changes they will make
    Even though they destroy our nature the less oxygen we will have

  10. Andreea M.

    Dames do change the world and dams destroy species and dams do change the natural evironments and dams do destroy.The richer they are the more change the can include.

  11. Rhys F.

    Facts:
    A)They destroy species.
    B)They also makes species.
    C)IRN latest database is a collection of data.
    D) We now live in a anthopoence world.
    Opinions:
    A)Indeed dams do change the world.
    B) People change the environment.
    C)The richer they are the more they change.

    Rhys 🤯🤫🖖

  12. Andreea M.

    The richer they are, the more change they induce.

  13. Yamen E.

    Bronze
    Dams in the old centre were poorly designed.
    Dams produce carbon dioxide.
    There are loads of dams in China.
    The us no longer build dams in there area.

  14. Mohammed J.

    Opinions
    They change the world .
    The richer people’s all things .

    Facts
    They destroy the world .
    They destroy the animals .
    They destroy there habitats.

  15. Abdirahman M.

    ” Many of the dams in the 20 TH century have proven to be river killers.” For example numerous. (OPINION). I know this because people believe and have expanded their thoughts on the statement,also agreed.
    Silver
    “Europe have emerged to remove them.”These can be still useful for powering electricity which can save a life just because its rarely used or developed often in Europe doesn’t mean we shouldn’t help.

  16. Zeynab A.

    Bronze:
    Indeed, dams do change the world and its natural environment. So do cities, roads, airports, chemical industries and agriculture. In general, we can say that people change their environment. The richer they are, the more change they induce. In the course of that, they often destroy species; they also create species, but that is not often measured or mentioned.

  17. Matthew L.

    facts: bronze
    “Ultimately dams change rivers”
    “Many of the dams built in the last century were poorly designed”
    “dam building is still booming”

    opinion:
    “Nottingham University says the short answer is “yes” dams do destroy rivers as ecosystems.”
    “he also notes the positive impact dams have had in reducing the sum of human misery and encouraging development.”
    “Thorne says there is an unavoidable trade off between the benefits dams bring and the harm they do.”

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