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Please do not read this to the students.  This is a description for teachers, about the big ideas and key understanding that students should take away after completing this task.\nBig Ideas and Key Understandings\nA paleontologist’s work can be stored and left untouched for many years. Investigations often lead to more unanswered questions.\nSynopsis\nFrom the early 1900’s through 1997 scientist investigate meat-eating dinosaurs. This informational text describes how paleontologists continue to investigate unanswered questions.  In 1976 Philip Currie a paleontologist discovered Barnum Brown’s field notes and 4 photos that were stored in the American Museum of Natural History along with bones from several dinosaurs. This find brought up the question did some meat-eating dinosaurs spend time living and hunting together? At the time paleontologist thought they lived and hunted alone like the Tyrannosaurus Rex. In 1997 Philip revisited the site and found at least 22 Albertosaurus buried in the rock. Several other scientists found places with the remains of other groups of meat-eating dinosaurs.  Scientists can’t answer all questions as a definite yes/no. They make smart guesses based on the evidence they have collected. This investigation lead to other questions that remains unanswered.\nRead entire main selection text, keeping in mind the Big Ideas and Key Understandings.\nRe-read the main selection text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and teaching Vocabulary.\nDuring Teaching\nStudents read the entire main selection text independently.\nTeacher reads the main selection text aloud with students following along. (Depending on how complex the text is and the amount of support needed by students, the teacher may choose to reverse the order of steps 1 and 2.)\nStudents and teacher re-read the text while stopping to respond to and discuss the questions and returning to the text.  A variety of methods can be used to structure the reading and discussion (i.e.:  whole class discussion, think-pair-share, independent written response, group work, etc.)\nText Dependent Questions\nText-dependent Questions\nEvidence-based Answers\nWhat kind of fossils were Philip and his team looking for?\n(Pg. 44)\nThey were looking for fossils that belong to dinosaurs called Albertosaurus.\nReread page 45. The author uses the phrase “looking for a needle in a haystack”, which means something is very hard to find. Why was the fossil field in western Canada’s badlands hard to find?\nHow did Philip know he must be close to the fossil field?\nPhilip had few clues: some notes and four old photos from 90 years ago. Brown did not make a map or write down where he had found the fossils.\nPhilip saw the remains of Brown’s campsite earlier in the day.\nWhat evidence did Philip have to prove he had found Brown’s bone bed? (Pg. 47)\nThe scene in front of him looked just like the photo. He could tell someone dug into the rock a long time ago because there were holes or cuts in the rocky hills.\nHow did Barnum Brown find his first fossil? (Pg. 48)\nBarnum Brown found his first fossil while digging for coal when he was young.\nWhy did Brown leave Columbia University? (Pg. 48)\nBrown left the university because he liked digging up bones more than learning about them in a classroom. He became a bone hunter for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.\nWhat did other people say about Brown to indicate that Brown was good at finding fossils? (Pg. 48)\nThe head of the Museum Henry Fairfield Osborn joked that Brown could “smell fossils” and news writers called him “Mr. Bones”.\nWhere and when were the first Tyrannos","cbCaijp440J0vA6Z","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijp440J0vA6Z","docx",36712,12,"English","# Unit 4/Week 2\n## Title and Suggested Time\n## Teacher Instructions\n## Big Ideas and Key Understandings\n## Synopsis\n## Before Teaching\n## During Teaching\n## Text Dependent Questions\n## Evidence-based Answers","[{\"question\":\"What kind of fossils were Philip and his team looking for?\",\"answer\":\"They were looking for fossils that belong to dinosaurs called Albertosaurus.\"},{\"question\":\"Why was the fossil field in western Canada’s badlands hard to find?\",\"answer\":\"The author explains it was like “looking for a needle in a haystack,” meaning the fossils were very difficult to locate.\"},{\"question\":\"What evidence led Philip to believe Albertosaurus might not have hunted alone?\",\"answer\":\"Brown’s discovery of many meat-eating dinosaurs of the same species in the same spot served as evidence that Albertosaurus did not live and hunt alone.\"}]","The Albertosaurus Mystery - Lesson | DOCX",1792132351,18]