1. Warm-Up:
1. Describe how the use of coal and fossil fuels leads to global warming and climate change. 2. How is electricity made? (Think way back to physics!)

2. Objectives Essential Question:
Students will compare and contrast the main ideas and interpretation of information between texts about the Mississippi Power Plants; Students will analyze and predict how Mississippi is contributing to pollution or helping in conservation of resources
How is Mississippi responding to resource use and sustainability concerns?
Essential Question:

3. Vocabulary Words
Conservation. Brown Coal. Nuclear Power. Entergy.

4. Comparing Interpretations
What happens when the claim is the same but the evidence is different?

5. You Do
Partners will read about the new coal plant being developed in Kemper County, Mississippi by Mississippi Power and the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station located in Port Gibson, Mississippi
Compare and Contrast ideas in the Venn Diagram during reading