Benchmark Review 1- "Digital Detectives"

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What does it mean to develop a paleontologist's 'eye'?

Back

To increase contextual knowledge to build accurate models.

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

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How do campers learn about themselves at the 'Capturing Dinosaurs' camp?

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By providing quotations to detail campers' experiences at camp.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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What is a central idea of the text regarding the American Museum of Natural History?

Back

The American Museum of Natural History offers a camp to teach students about digital fabrication tools.

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

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What supports the claim that students think like scientists?

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Students took up the challenges of modeling fossils, making reproductions, and fitting them together to figure out the type of dinosaur they were.

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What is the author's purpose in the text?

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To show that exposure to digital fabrication is beneficial to students.

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CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.6.6

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What is digital fabrication?

Back

A process that uses digital tools to create physical objects.

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What role do 3D printers play in digital fabrication?

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They create three-dimensional objects by layering materials based on digital designs.

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Why is it important to preserve dinosaur fossils?

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To maintain scientific knowledge and understanding of prehistoric life.

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

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What skills do students develop at the 'Capturing Dinosaurs' camp?

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Modeling, reproducing, and analyzing dinosaur fossils.

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How does the camp encourage scientific thinking?

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By presenting students with scientific puzzles to solve.