Right There Questions
What animal is being researched in the article? Provide a sentence to prove it!
What are Elephants
What do you think will happen with the information that the scientists learned from this experiment? Explain your inference and use text to help you.
Provide your inference with explanation.
Explain the setup of the experiment. Use text evidence to help you.
A table was created of plywood. A rope was placed through a ring at front of the table; causing two ends. Two red bowls were attached to the table. Two lanes were assigned; one to each elephant. A net was set up as a barrier between the elephants. A piece of wood was set up to stop the table.
Define Mahout.
A Mahout is an elephant trainer.
Who would walk the elephants to the end of the rope? Provide a piece of text evidence.
A Mahout
What do yo think would happen if the elephants weren't given food to stay calm? Explain your inference and use text to help you.
Provide your inference with explanation.
Explain the process the scientists used to get the elephants to pull the string. Use text evidence in your answer.
Mahouts first trained the elephants to pull chains. Then the Mahout walked elephant to the rope to and trained it to pull the rope using vocal commands.
What was given to the elephants to ensure that they remained relaxed between tests? Give text evidence for your answer.
Elephants were given pieces of banana and sugar cane.
What color were the bowls in the experiment? Provide a sentence for the text that proves your answer.
What are red.
What would happen if the elephants were given 5 trials each day instead of 10? Explain your inference and use text to help you.
What is your inference and explain why.
What is the Main Idea of the passage. Give evidence.
Elephants are are one of the few animals that can work cooperatively.
Predict what might happen if the elephants did not stay calm? Why did you make this prediction?
Who is the author of the text? Provide text evidence to support your answer.
Who is Joshua Plotnick
Why do you think it was necessary to have two video cameras recording the elephants? Explain your inference and use text to help you.
What is your inference? Explain your thinking.
Find evidence that shows that the elephants understood the task. At least TWO different pieces.
Provide two separate pieces of information that show the elephants understood the task.
How would you feel if you were the elephant and the scientist was running experiments on you? Explain your answer with a connection to the text.
Answers will vary.
When did the testing occur? Provide evidence of months/years.
What is January THROUGH May of 2009
Predict what what might happen if the elephants were not given bananas and sugarcane. Use EVIDENCE to support your prediction.
Elephants may become stressed. "Mahouts gave elephants pieces of banana and sugarcane to ensure they stayed relaxed."
Provide evidence that the mahout played a large role in the experiment. Find two DIFFERENT pieces of evidence.
Provide evidence from TWO sections.
Why did the mahouts turn their back on the elephants once they were released? Give text evidence to support your answer.
Mahouts turned their back to the elephants so that they did not accidentally give a cue to the elephants.