MS Unit 1 - Week 3

​Unit 1 - Can all Mysteries be solved?

By Melanie Kuntz

Open Ended

Work with a partner to answer these questions. Try to include the key word in your answer.

2. What does an archaeologist do?

Open Ended

Work with a partner to answer these questions. Try to include the key word in your answer.

3. What clues would the police use to track a bank robber?

Open Ended

Work with a partner to answer these questions. Try to include the key word in your answer.

3. Which creature scares you the most? Why?

Open Ended

Work with a partner to answer these questions. Try to include the key word in your answer.

4. Why do you think dinosaurs disappeared millions of years ago?

Open Ended

Work with a partner to answer these questions. Try to include the key word in your answer.

5. Why do people sometimes like fantasy better than reality?

Open Ended

Work with a partner to answer these questions. Try to include the key word in your answer.

6. What is something that is sacred to you or someone you know?

Match

Match each key word to its definition.

Example: Sacred - relating to a god or religion and believed to be holy.

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• fantasy

• archaeologist

• clues

• creature

• disappeared

something that is not real, but imagined

someone who learns about ancient people

information that helps solve a crime

an animal, fish, or insect

stopped existing

• something that is not real, but imagined

• someone who learns about ancient people

• information that helps solve a crime

• an animal, fish, or insect

• stopped existing

Drag and Drop

Use the Key words to complete the sentences.

A detective looks for ​

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to solve a mystery.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

clues

sacred

creature

fantasy

disappeared

archaeologist

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Use the Key words to complete the sentences.

The sea star is a ​

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that lives in water.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

clues

sacred

creature

fantasy

disappeared

archaeologist

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Use the Key words to complete the sentences.

Scientists are still trying to decide why the dinosaurs ​

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.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

clues

sacred

creature

fantasy

disappeared

archaeologist

Drag and Drop

Use the Key words to complete the sentences.

Another word for holy is ​

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.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

clues

sacred

creature

fantasy

disappeared

archaeologist

Drag and Drop

Use the Key words to complete the sentences.

I have a dream about becoming famous, but it is just a ​

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.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

clues

sacred

creature

fantasy

disappeared

archaeologist

Open Ended

Where could you find accurate

information about ancient Egypt?

Open Ended

How could you create a model of a

pyramid? What materials would you use

to make the model?

Open Ended

What types of evidence might

archaeologists use to figure out why a

group of people suddenly died out or

vanished?

Open Ended

What kinds of things do human beings

need in order to survive?

Fill in the Blank

Some people believe that the Loch Ness monster is a real creeture.

Categorize

Options (6)

beggar

cracker

doctor

dollar

harmmer

tractor

Add the words to the correct spelling in the chart.

ar

er

or

Read the words in the box. Then write each word in the correct column in the chart. After, write the letters that stand for the /er/ sound in each word below. Then use each word in a sentence of your own.

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