#14 Evidence and Reasoning

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#14 Evidence and Reasoning

Last updated over 4 years ago

10 questions

Task for this worksheet: 
Find out WHY the evidence SUPPORTS the main idea!

This is a SUPER important task when you are writing. We are going to practice this skill here today!

Main Idea:
The Space Race MADE THE POLITICAL RIVALRY BETWEEN THE US AND USSR WORSE.

Evidence:
“. . . a new benchmark was set by one of the two superpowers almost every year throughout the 1950s and 1960s.”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:
The Space Race MADE THE POLITICAL RIVALRY BETWEEN THE US AND USSR WORSE.

Evidence:
President Kennedy gave a speech to Congress in which he referred to the rivalry between the United States and Russia as a “battle” between “freedom and tyranny.”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:
The Space Race MADE THE POLITICAL RIVALRY BETWEEN THE US AND USSR WORSE.

Evidence:
The United Nations established the Outer Space Treaty, which “limits the use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes and expressly prohibits their use for testing weapons of any kind, conducting military maneuvers, or establishing military bases, installations and fortifications.”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:
The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCE

Evidence:
“Indian space scientists and engineers were sent to train in both [the United States and Russia].”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:
The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCE

Evidence:
The Space Race “prompted competitive countries to send unmanned space probes to the Moon, Venus and Mars.”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:
The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCE

Evidence:
“NASA, the premiere space research agency, was also built in 1958 during the Space Race . . . .”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:
The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCE

Evidence:
Efforts toward the Space Race “made possible human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and to the Moon.”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:
The Space Race HELPED THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Evidence:
“There were many ‘firsts’ during the Space Race. The first intercontinental ballistic missile in 1957, the first artificial satellite (Sputnik 1) in 1957, the first dog in orbit (sent by Sputnik 2) in 1957, the first solar-powered satellite, the first communication satellite, etc.”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:
The Space Race HELPED THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Evidence:
Neil Armstrong’s statement when he stepped onto the lunar surface “‘That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,’ is now one of the most quoted phrases in literature.”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:
The Space Race HELPED THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Evidence:
“. . . both the United States and USSR helped their allies build their space missions through the training of scientists and engineers, the transferring of technology, and by allowing other researchers to visit their space laboratories.”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

#14 Evidence and Reasoning

#14 Evidence and Reasoning

Main Idea:The Space Race MADE THE POLITICAL RIVALRY BETWEEN THE US AND USSR WORSE.Evidence:“. . . a new benchmark was set by one of the two superpowers almost every year throughout the 1950s and 1960s.”Question:Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCEEvidence:“Indian space scientists and engineers were sent to train in both [the United States and Russia].”Question:Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCEEvidence:The Space Race “prompted competitive countries to send unmanned space probes to the Moon, Venus and Mars.”Question:Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCEEvidence:“NASA, the premiere space research agency, was also built in 1958 during the Space Race . . . .”Question:Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCEEvidence:Efforts toward the Space Race “made possible human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and to the Moon.”Question:Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:The Space Race MADE THE POLITICAL RIVALRY BETWEEN THE US AND USSR WORSE.Evidence:“. . . a new benchmark was set by one of the two superpowers almost every year throughout the 1950s and 1960s.”Question:Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCEEvidence:“Indian space scientists and engineers were sent to train in both [the United States and Russia].”Question:Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCEEvidence:The Space Race “prompted competitive countries to send unmanned space probes to the Moon, Venus and Mars.”Question:Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCEEvidence:“NASA, the premiere space research agency, was also built in 1958 during the Space Race . . . .”Question:Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCEEvidence:Efforts toward the Space Race “made possible human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and to the Moon.”Question:Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:
The Space Race MADE THE POLITICAL RIVALRY BETWEEN THE US AND USSR WORSE.

Evidence:
“. . . a new benchmark was set by one of the two superpowers almost every year throughout the 1950s and 1960s.”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:
The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCE

Evidence:
“Indian space scientists and engineers were sent to train in both [the United States and Russia].”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:
The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCE

Evidence:
The Space Race “prompted competitive countries to send unmanned space probes to the Moon, Venus and Mars.”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:
The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCE

Evidence:
“NASA, the premiere space research agency, was also built in 1958 during the Space Race . . . .”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:
The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCE

Evidence:
Efforts toward the Space Race “made possible human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and to the Moon.”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:
The Space Race MADE THE POLITICAL RIVALRY BETWEEN THE US AND USSR WORSE.

Evidence:
“. . . a new benchmark was set by one of the two superpowers almost every year throughout the 1950s and 1960s.”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:
The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCE

Evidence:
“Indian space scientists and engineers were sent to train in both [the United States and Russia].”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:
The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCE

Evidence:
The Space Race “prompted competitive countries to send unmanned space probes to the Moon, Venus and Mars.”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:
The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCE

Evidence:
“NASA, the premiere space research agency, was also built in 1958 during the Space Race . . . .”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Main Idea:
The Space Race INSPIRED OTHER NATIONS TO INVEST IN SPACE SCIENCE

Evidence:
Efforts toward the Space Race “made possible human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and to the Moon.”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?