Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Kade's essay about dinosaur tracks in the desert

*In class we read an article about dinosaur tracks that were found clustered together in the Arizona desert. The article was called The Dinosaur Dance Floor. The students discussed why the dinosaurs might all have been in one small area together, and thought of good reasons why scientists should study those tracks.
My name is Kade. I live in a small town in Alaska. We don’t have a desert in Alaska. We have rivers. Sometimes we see animal tracks in river mud. Scientists could study the dinosaur dance floor tracks in the mud because we want to know what kinds of dinosaurs there were and what they were doing.

It (the dinosaur dance floor) is a place where water can be or it could be a place that is warmer or they could be protecting some babies or they could be tired of the cold in Arizona.

People can know what dinosaurs lived in Arizona millions of years ago that might give clues about what the climate was like. They might find out it was different.

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