Bring Science Alive! Exploring Science Practices— Grade 3 | Unit 1 Sample Science Journal

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PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

Taking Part in a Paleontology Dig Although we have already learned a lot about Columbian Mammoths, there is always more for us to learn. Paleontologists dig for fossils in order to learn about things that lived thousands of years ago. Your classroom has turned into a dig site. Act as paleontologists to excavate fossils and gather data.

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Performance Assessment:  Researching How Columbian Mammoths Went Extinct

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