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Seahorse Search: A Research Project with Three Sources

Grade 5 research practice: read three short sources about seahorses, sort facts by research question, check facts across sources, and write.

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 5
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students sort facts from several sources by the research question each fact answers.
Students check facts across sources and record which source each fact came from.
Students write a research question and a short paragraph that uses facts from two sources.

How to use

Read Mateo's research questions and the three sources together. Students answer questions 1 to 8 on their own, then use the sources to write in questions 9 and 10.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

W.5.7

Conduct a short research project that uses several sources to build knowledge by investigating different aspects of a topic.

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Seahorse Search: A Research Project with Three Sources

Use several sources to investigate different parts of one topic.

Read the research questions and sources

Mateo's class is doing short research projects about ocean animals, and Mateo chose seahorses. He wrote four research questions, each about a different part of the topic. Then he found three sources. Read his questions and his sources.

Mateo's research questions
1. How does a seahorse move through the water?
2. What do seahorses eat, and how do they eat?
3. How are baby seahorses born?
4. How do seahorses stay safe from animals that hunt them?

Source A (magazine article): An Upright Swimmer

A seahorse may not look like a fish, but it is one. Its head is shaped a little like a horse's head, which is how it got its name. Instead of scales, a seahorse has thin skin stretched over bony plates. Unlike most fish, a seahorse swims in an upright position, with its head at the top and its tail below.

A seahorse moves by fluttering a small fin on its back. This fin beats very fast, yet the seahorse moves slowly through the water. It steers with two tiny fins on the sides of its head. To keep from drifting away when the water moves, a seahorse wraps its curled tail around seagrass or coral, the way some monkeys hold on to branches with their tails.

Source B (aquarium sign): Meet Our Seahorses

Seahorses have no teeth. To eat, a seahorse sucks tiny animals, such as very small shrimp, into its long, tube-shaped snout and swallows them whole. Seahorses also have no stomach, so food passes through their bodies quickly. That is why a seahorse in the wild eats many times a day. Come back at feeding time to watch our seahorses eat!

In the seahorse world, dads have a special job. The female places her eggs in a pouch on the male's belly. The male carries the eggs in his pouch until they hatch. Then many tiny baby seahorses, called fry, swim out of the pouch, ready to live on their own.

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