✨ #14 Evidence and Reasoning

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5 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 (USSR and USA) almost every year throughout the 1950s and 1960s.”

Question:
Why does that evidence support the main idea?

Sentence Starter:
I think that this evidence supports the main idea because...

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?

Sentence Starter:
I think that this evidence supports the main idea because...

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?

Sentence Starter:
I think that this evidence supports the main idea because...

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

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?

Sentence Starter:
I think that this evidence supports the main idea because...

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?

Sentence Starter:
I think that this evidence supports the main idea because...