Current Events Instructions and Example by Hillary Smith https://padlet.com/hsmith19/5dcojklakwsrwwi7 en-us 2025-10-17 14:00:20 UTC 2025-10-30 15:05:53 UTC hello@padlet.com hsmith19 https://padlet.com/hsmith19/5dcojklakwsrwwi7/wish/3637760268 These are the instructions for this assignment. Your job is to explore and research a current event. You want to dive into the "rabbit hole," so to speak, to understand it as thoroughly as you are able. You may choose any ongoing and robust current event approved by Mrs. Smith.


Your job is to create a guide to your topic, using this tool. For every source that adds to your knowledge of a topic, you should add a link here on Padlet, along with 2-3 sentences of your own summary/insight.


You should color-code based on the following:

  • Overview/Basic Information

  • History/Background

  • Individual stories

  • Other


]]> 2025-10-17 14:29:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hsmith19/5dcojklakwsrwwi7/wish/3637760268 hsmith19 https://padlet.com/hsmith19/5dcojklakwsrwwi7/wish/3637763132 This AllSides Media Bias Chart can help you to find sources and to ensure that your sources come from a variety of perspectives.

]]> 2025-10-17 14:31:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hsmith19/5dcojklakwsrwwi7/wish/3637763132 hsmith19 https://padlet.com/hsmith19/5dcojklakwsrwwi7/wish/3637764077 EXAMPLE POSTS ON "INVASIVE SPECIES IN THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES" CONNECTED BELOW.

]]> 2025-10-17 14:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/hsmith19/5dcojklakwsrwwi7/wish/3637764077 "The Dirty Dozen" hsmith19 https://padlet.com/hsmith19/5dcojklakwsrwwi7/wish/3637772963 Invasive species are thriving in the Florida Everglades. This list outlines 12 of the worst culprits: five species of reptiles and amphibians; one species of snail; two species of fish; and four species of plants. The Burmese Python is the on in the news the most.

]]> 2025-10-17 14:39:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hsmith19/5dcojklakwsrwwi7/wish/3637772963 Snake hunters bag 106 pythons in Florida effort to control predator hsmith19 https://padlet.com/hsmith19/5dcojklakwsrwwi7/wish/3637778006 Florida has had several state-sponsored hunts for the invasive pythons in order to reduce the population. They have been having these events since 2013, and the numbers caught each year continue to grow.

]]> 2025-10-17 14:43:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hsmith19/5dcojklakwsrwwi7/wish/3637778006 What is an invasive species and why are they a problem? hsmith19 https://padlet.com/hsmith19/5dcojklakwsrwwi7/wish/3637782197 Invasive species are not just out of place; they also damage the ecosystem. They do not have natural predators or environmental checks and balances, so they reproduce and damage the landscape outside of the expected "circle of life" in an area.

]]> 2025-10-17 14:46:52 UTC https://padlet.com/hsmith19/5dcojklakwsrwwi7/wish/3637782197 Floridian Spends Retirement Capturing Invasive Lizards That Threaten Native Wildlife hsmith19 https://padlet.com/hsmith19/5dcojklakwsrwwi7/wish/3637788999 Sid Pennington is one of the people trying to reduce the tegu population in the Everglades. He has captured 117 of the large lizards.


As of 2022, over 12,000 tegus had been removed from the Florida wild.

]]> 2025-10-17 14:52:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hsmith19/5dcojklakwsrwwi7/wish/3637788999 Overview hsmith19 https://padlet.com/hsmith19/5dcojklakwsrwwi7/wish/3658785374 2-3 sentences

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