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[Dino and Coop singing]

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Picture it you spent your whole life thinking shrimp are super boring [A plate full of shrimp]

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tasty sure but still super boring until one day you read about the mantis shrimp

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which can punch with the same velocity as a gunshot from a rifle we're actually [A mantis shrimp wearing boxing gloves in a ring]

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not making this one up these little guys are tiny terrifying warriors so now that

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you have a new fun opinion on shrimp you might find yourself tempted to share [A boy sharing a fact about shrimp to his friend]

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with your friends if you do though you're gonna have to back up your claims

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with evidence after all a shrimpy little death machine might cause a few raised [A shrimp on the stand in court wearing boxing gloves]

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eyebrows luckily gathering evidence isn't too complicated we just need to

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compile all the little details that helped us to form our new ideas and [Man gathering evidence from a cluttered garage]

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opinions in the first place they might be facts or logical conclusions based on

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the source material you read the source materials could be books magazines or

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even websites shmoop what a weird cough we should get that checked out and even

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if you're like cool I got everything I needed from those sources the first time [Boy wearing sunglasses jumps into bed to take a nap]

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around time to take a nap you're actually going to want to go back to the

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source material and re-read it hey you never know what fun little details you

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might have missed like the fact that the Mantis shrimps punch is so strong it [Matis shrimp punching a fish]

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boils the water around it into vapor bubbles and creates underwater shock

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waves this thing sounds like a Bond villain back to the actual topic on hand [A mantis shrimp facing up to James Bond]

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this process is especially important for schoolwork say you started writing up a

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report about Australia but you want to find some evidence to support the claims [A man in the middle of an Australian wasteland]

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you made in your report so here's a paragraph you read when writing your

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report and you need to find evidence for two ideas in your paper one Captain

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James Cook took possession of Australia in 1770 and two Europeans arrived in [Captain James Cook onlooking]

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Australia in the 1600s so where's the evidence? Well, the first idea is pretty

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easy if we look at that second sentence we see a nice clean fact that supports

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the idea that Captain James Cook took possession of Australia in 1770 bingo what [Sentence of a paragraph highlighted stating James Cook took possession in the name of Great Britain]

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about the second idea we're trying to show that Europeans arrived in Australia

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in the 1600s there is no particular sentence that says this but it is a [A European man stood in a desert in Australia]

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logical conclusion based on the first sentence it tells

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us that Europeans began exploration in the 17th century since we're talking

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about Australia and European exploration generally involved landing somewhere and [A European stumbling across an Australian man]

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you know walking around we've got some solid evidence for the idea that

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Europeans arrived in Australia in the 1600s and it doesn't end with digging up

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facts about the natural world we can even find evidence when we're reading [Man digging up artifacts from the ground]

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fiction too. Take the following bit from one of Aesop fables the hare with

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many friends the hare with many friends if someone told you that the hare in

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this story was scared could you find some evidence to back that up well if [A hare trying to be brave]

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you read carefully you'll notice that the text never actually thought out says

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the hare was scared, but if you pay attention to what the hare is doing

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she's trying to escape from a bunch of hounds which is exactly the kind of [A hare running away from a hound in a field]

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behavior you would expect from someone who's very afraid of hounds, not that we

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know that from experience or anything it's a logical conclusion we're drawing

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from the text which makes it solid evidence and that's it all you've got to

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do is read the source material again to find supportive information and boom [An old man reading a Science Stuff book]

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you'll find evidence man that would make detectives life so much easier we should

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show them this video [A detective speaking to a man]

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