Research and Review Elementary Level 1

Environment
Can cleaner cook stoves help save the world?
a2bitnickel

Summer 2013

Research and Review ~~ Environment (3)

Topic Focus: Can cleaner cook stoves help save the world?
Where should you look before you start each story do some research?
Google this topic focus and you may find too many choices.
Lets cut this into a smaller piece.
What are some ideas that you find when you Google the Topic Focus, like what do
we mean clean cook stoves.
Definitions of clean cook stoves: Clean cook stoves can be _______?
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Label each answer from 1~ 6.

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Why?
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Story Title: Can cleaner cook stoves help save the world?
The title helps you discover ideas. In this title we find words that will help us.
The url is http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-13/backfiring-cookstoves-point-way-toassessing-aid-schemes.html

Now find some information to answer these three questions.

Find some ideas like ~
What are three things that stoves do to hurt people?

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Why do they hurt the people?

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What solutions can you find how stoves help people?

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2. ___________________________________
3. ___________________________________
Discuss this when you get to class.

Topic ~ Can cleaner cook stoves help save the world? 5x5
Step 1 ~~ Think about 5 different ideas to help us understand the
problem. Look at your research to help you.
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2.___ Help _________
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Step 2 ~~ Make 5 questions about each idea. There is one example for
you to look at.
1.___ hurt ________
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What hurts the people THE MOST?

What affects the cook stove the most?
How do cook stoves hurt people?
What damage cannot be changed?
What is the best solution to help the cook stove and the people?

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Step 3 ~~ Make longer one sentence answers for each question.

1.___ hurt ________
i) What hurts the people THE MOST?
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ii) What affects the cook stove the most?
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iii) How do cook stoves hurt people?
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iv) What damage cannot be changed?
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v) What is the best solution to help the cook stove and the people?
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Read the story

Can cleaner cook stoves help save the world?
2012-05-15 19:33

Did the slick animations in the Girl Effect video, compel you to buy soccer cleats for a South
African girl? Maybe Matt Damon persuaded you to invest in Water.org so you can supply clean
water and toilets to the worlds poor.
If you havent, youve missed out on a big trend. Overseas development assistance is going
private. More and more, private Charities, Foundations, and NGOs are joining, or displacing
government organizations such as the U.S. Agency for International Development and
multilateral groups like those of the United Nations to help the poorest of the poor. Celebrities
vouch for various projects, and the Internet makes giving simple. From 2005 to 2010, overseas
aid from U.S. private groups jumped by 164 percent, while official development assistance grew
by only 8 percent, according to figures tracked by the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development.
Does the money they donate to global causes actually do good? The results of a study published
last month highlight how surprisingly hard it is to answer that question. It involved measuring
the effects of installing innovative cook stoves in 2,600 households, in 44 villages, in Indias
Orissa state.
The clean-cook stove movement has considerable momentum. Championed by Hillary Clinton
and Julia Roberts, the Global Alliance for Clean Cook stoves has raised $135 million to reduce
smoke exposure from cooking indoors with primitive stoves or open fires: The World Health
Organization estimates that such exposure causes 2 million premature deaths a year. The alliance
hopes to distribute 100 million smoke-reducing stoves, which come in endless varieties, by 2020.
The researchers behind the study, Rema Hanna of Harvard, and Esther Duflo and Michael
Greenstone of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expected to confirm the health benefits
of the $12.50 mud-based, chimneyed cook stoves installed in Orissa. In laboratory experiments,
clean cook stoves have been shown to release fewer pollutants and burn more efficiently than
traditional cooking methods. However, such tests cant predict what will happen in the real world.
Thats where a well-designed randomized trial is irreplaceable.
In Orissa, households were randomly assigned to three waves of stove construction, and
researchers measured a meaningful reduction in smoke inhalation in the first year after a stove
was installed. Over a longer period, however, they saw no health benefits and no reduction in
fuel use. Thats because once the stoves and chimneys developed cracks, the villagers generally
chose not to fix or maintain their new devices but instead went back to their old, smoky ways of
cooking.
This doesnt suggest the clean-cook stove campaign should be abandoned so much as slowed
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down. It would be wise to test various designs in real-life settings, and, where necessary, take
more time to human-proof models. Clean-cook stove advocates need to develop incentives for
families to stick with the stoves, and they need to study why many villagers in the India trial
embraced the devices yet continued using their conventional cooking fires as well. Otherwise,
the innovative stoves of today could wind up in the same junk piles, as models from efforts
decades ago. Those castoffs are a reminder that, however well- intentioned, many assistance
programs for the developing world can prove fruitless.

Vocabulary check
Find the colored words and look them up in the dictionary. There are ten (10)
of them.

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Step 4
Step 4 is to put all the answers into paragraphs. Each of the five (5) in section
one (1) is a paragraph. You will have a 5 paragraph essay now. There is one
example for you. You make yours.

1. hurt
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Step 5 is to add an introduction and a conclusion. Do this for your
essay homework.

The introduction uses all five of the major words you made in
the beginning.

The conclusion gives five basic things you said about the points.

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The Debate
Debate is about making statements NOT questions.
Each debate topic starts with a statement.
Today the topic is about Humans and Environment. The statement to defend
(agree with) or rebut (disagree with) is:

Humans need to cook using fire. Fire creates smoke. Therefore, humans
will always need smoky cook stoves.
Be careful with words like Always

In the story (facts)

What ideas in the story agree with this statement? (defend / agree)
What ideas do not agree with this statement? (rebut / disagree)
What ideas expand, do not fit into these two categories?
In my research (facts)
What ideas did I find in my research that agree / disagree / expand the
statement?
My opinions based on what I know plus facts from the story and my research.
On the next page you will two boxes. Number each point. Match each point
topic from the story and your research by their number. Put a (+) for the agree
points, and a (-) for those which disagree.
If a point doesnt match, that is ok. This means that you will need to find an
answer later.
After you have numbered and matched your points, each one should have a
plus (+) and (-) to be a match, then you are ready to try a debate.
In the debate the teacher will give you a point or argument and you will speak
what you have found in the story and the research. In the second round you
will need to give your opinions from the research you already did to expand.

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 Have students imagine breathing smoke from farmers burning

their rice fields every day.
Have the students write a list of words describing how they feel
when someone smokes, or they have a smoky BBQ fire.
Write a short essay from this list.

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In this box put the (+) points ~~

In this box put the (-) points ~~

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In this box write your own opinions from your research related to cook stoves and human
environment. ~~~
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