Or...how scientists use hypothesis and evidence to solve mysterious..

Read the 3 articles about King Tuts death. Draw a picture that illustrates each scientists hypotesis as to the cause of Tutenkhamons death. Then list the tools the scientist used and the evidence the scientist ised.

Before 2005

Hypothesis King Tut probably died because: murder, blow to head

Evidence The scientists saw from the X-rays that he had a blow in the head from the crack in his skull. They said it was that he was murdered. Evidence They did the CAT Scan which showed that his knee had a fracture and the knee cap was ripped. It showed that he did something to his knee. They said it was a accident from a chariot of a war wound from the battle.
Evidence A DNA study revealed that the 19-year-old king died from complications from a broken leg that got worse by malaria.

Hypothesis 2007 Accident from chariot or war wound

2010

Hypothesis Malaria

2012

Hypothesis Epilepsy

Evidence A scientist found that Tut had Epilepsy. He said that the pharaohs had an unusual body shape, as they appeared in the artistic pictures of King Tut and his believed relatives, he also said that each pharaoh had died at a younger age than his ancestor. That could be true because people with sort of epilepsy also have unusual body shapes, including larger chest and hips.

Which hypothesis do you think has the best evidence? Support your answer with reasons. I think that the one will the CAT scan was the best because it is accurate and it is most likely to be true and it showed it on the movie that it might be really true.

Reading:

NonFiction Single Text

Meets Standard

Identify the central ideas and use details to explain. Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text. Use specific information in the text. Identify reasons and evidence for a particular point made in a text. Evaluate how they support the point. Integrate and evaluate information from several similar and/or different texts (e.g. Nonfiction books, electronic texts, web sites, magazine articles, etc) on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. Find similarities and differences in the different texts.