DARWIN'S DISCARDS
Standards: NGSS.SCIENCE MS-LS4-5, MS-LS4-2, MS-LS4-3
You have been helping your mom clean out your great aunt’s attic for the past three hours. It’s musty, it’s dusty, and there are cobwebs literally everywhere! This is definitely not how you imagined you would spend your Saturday! You are about to fake a sudden illness when you come across a weathered chest that looks intriguing and you strain to open the heavy lid that has been closed for ages. Inside are browned pages which look to be torn from an old book and two locked boxes. “Greyson, let’s take a break,” your mom says as she wipes the sweat from her brow, “How about some lunch?” “That sounds good mom, but I kind of want to try to get these open before that,” you say as you rattle the larger box of the two. “Oh honey, I tried to open all that stuff years ago, it can’t be done,” she says. “Your aunt has some crazy notion it is the discards of the Charles Darwin estate, but we just need to throw it out with the rest of the trash up here.” You give her a pleading look and she nods, ”Alright, I’ll go make lunch, you have 45 minutes to try to open them or the whole chest and its contents are being thrown away!”
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