If you follow local news, you might be aware that two tagged great white sharks, Mary Lee and Genie, have been hanging out offshore of Jacksonville Beach this week. (My husband surfs, so this has been quite a hot topic among our family this week!) We have been checking out where they've been when their devices were pinged, and I wanted to share this with our students because of the connections to social studies (we've been looking at a physical map of Massachusetts this week and the sharks were tagged in Cape Cod) and to science (we'll be studying vertebrate animals later this year). We can even make a math-to-world connection using a comparison problem:
If Mary Lee weighs 3,456 pounds and Genie weighs 2,292 pounds, then how much heavier is Mary Lee than Genie?
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