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Work on research procedures in this lesson, which prompts writers to collect and evaluate information pooled from a number of sources. They work in teams to collect information about crocodiles from different sources. They compare the information that they collected with that collected by other groups to decide which sources have valid information.

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Grade
5th - 8th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
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For Teacher Use
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Research
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Year
2004
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