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Room 214 had been empty since the old science teacher retired, and the sixth graders were sure it was haunted. Lights flickered. A faint tapping came from the walls after school.
Devon did not believe in ghosts, but he did believe in evidence. Armed with a flashlight and a notebook, he stayed late on Tuesday.
At 3:47 the tapping began: tap… tap-tap… tap. Devon followed it to a vent near the floor. He pressed his ear to the metal and heard water gurgling. Behind the wall, the old heating pipes were expanding as the boiler came on, knocking against their brackets.
He wrote his findings in a report titled "The Ghost of Room 214: A Plumbing Mystery." The principal had the pipes fixed, and the next week Room 214 became the new robotics lab.
In the early 1800s, a young woman named Mary Anning walked the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England, searching for "curiosities" to sell to tourists.
When she was about twelve, Mary and her brother uncovered the first complete skeleton of an ichthyosaur, a giant marine reptile. Later she found one of the first plesiosaur skeletons and an important flying reptile, a pterosaur.
Because she was a woman from a poor family, the scientific societies of her day did not admit her as a member, and men often published her discoveries without credit.
Today, Mary Anning is recognized as one of the most important fossil collectors in history. Her finds helped scientists understand that species could become extinct — a revolutionary idea at the time.
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Worksheets › Grade 6 English › Integration of Knowledge & Ideas › Integration of Knowledge & Ideas
Free Grade 6 English worksheet (Common Core RL.6.9): compare "Room 214" with "Mary Anning, Fossil Hunter" and analyze how each develops its ideas. Skill: Compare texts and evaluate arguments. Level: Grade 6 — also suits Year 7 (UK).
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