What surprises can happen on an expedition?
Scientists go on expeditions for many reasons and sometimes they find things they didn't expect to see. Scientists headout to research other cultures. They learn about plants, animals, and landforms in other regions of the world. They try to find out if legends about the great deeds of people in the past are really true. What they learn can be surprising. In some regions of the world ancient people cultivated the land using plows and animals. That's not too different from the way it was done just a century ago. In other regions of the world ancient people made their homes out of adobe. Some of those home still stand today. And in other regions, ancient people built gigantic pyramids that are now viewed in awe by millions of people from around the world.
This week you will learn how people from ancient civilizations built structures and farmed the land.
This week you will learn how people from ancient civilizations built structures and farmed the land.
Compare and ContrastTo compare means to look at how two or more things are similar.
To contrast means to look at how to or more things are different. When readers are able to find differences and/or similarities while they are reading, it helps them to organize new information with what they already know. Clue words such as like and as can show similarities. Clue words such as however and instead can show differences. A helpful graphic organizer that can be used to visually represent similarities and differences is a Venn-diagram. It is made of two or more circles where the overlapping parts represent what is similar about two or more topics. |
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