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Module 9 Unexpected, Unexplained
Essential Question: What makes something mysterious, and what drives people to solve mysteries? Science Connection: Unsolved Mysteries
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
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• Get Curious Video: What Was That?
• Searching for Atlantis, Read Aloud
• Why People Love Mysteries
• Mr. Linden’s Library by Walter Dean Myers
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• The Loch Ness Monster from National Geographic
• Finding Bigfoot: Everything You Need to Know
by Martha Brockenbrough
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• The Secret Keepers by Trenton Lee Stewart
• The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Trade Book Writing Focal Text
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VIDEO INFORMATIONAL TEXT INFORMATIONAL TEXT MYSTERY
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VIDEO INFORMATIONAL TEXT
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MYSTERY NARRATIVE
Module 10 The Lives of Animals
Essential Question: What can we learn about ourselves by observing and interacting with animals? Science Connection: Animal Behaviors
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Title
• Get Curious Video: We Are Animals
• Prairie Dogs: Talk of the Town, Read Aloud
• Why We Watch Animals
• Willie B.: A Story of Hope by Nancy Roe Pimm
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• Dolphin Parenting from National Geographic
• Can We Be Friends? by Ellen R. Braaf
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INFORMATIONAL TEXT INFORMATIONAL TEXT NARRATIVE NONFICTION
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MAGAZINE ARTICLE
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Prairie Dogs:
Talk of the Town
by CYNTHIA MILLS
From the wagging tail of a happy dog, to the bristling fur and spitting yowls of an angry cat, animals can definitely get their messages across. Dr. Con Slobodchikoff, a biologist at Northern Arizona University, thinks that prairie dogs can say a lot.
Prairie dogs live in colonies called towns, and they depend on each other to sound distinctive alarms if danger approaches. Their alarm calls are halfway between the buzzing of a kazoo and the squawk of a crow, and they can be heard from 3 miles (5 kilometers) away. It’s hard for humans to hear the differences between the calls, though, because they only last about half a second—about as long as it takes to say “Hey!” really fast. So Slobodchikoff recordedthecalls.Heranthesoundsthroughacomputertoslowthemdown and turn them into detailed pictures called spectrograms. Using the pictures of the sounds, he compared one sound to another to see if they were different. A
The spectrograms showed that prairie dogs make different alarm calls for hawks than for coyotes and other threats on land. But while the calls for flying hunters like hawks are mostly the same, the calls for animals on the ground are different from one another. B
Do prairie dogs say more than “Look out above” and “Look out below”? Slobodchikoff recorded the calls over and over again while students or dogs walkedby.Thenheplacedplywoodcutoutsofacoyote,askunk,anda simple oval nearby, to see what would happen. B
The prairie dogs watched regular dogs the same way they watched coyotes, but not as intensely. Their reactions to humans depended on past experience. In an area where humans had hunted them, the prairie dogs dove into their burrows to hide; in places where people left them alone, they didn’t react much at all. The prairie dogs responded to the cutouts in various ways, but not the same way they did to real predators. B C
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• Winter Bees and Other Poems of the Cold by Joyce Sidman
• The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate, Trade Book Writing Focal Text
Prairie dogs