Film Science Questions for The Golden Treasure

Background: Is thinking like a scientist just for people in white coats working in a lab? This film shows how thinking and working in a scientific way helps an archaeologist and his children locate Egyptian treasures buried for thousands of years.

full sentences, completed = A

point form, completed = B

point form, mostly done = C

partial effort = D or F

1. How far will the approaching train move in 45 s if it's speed is 1.9 m/s?

2. Achmed coming to met them at the train station will take how long to travel 600 m if his Jeep moves at 3.5 m/s?

3. Science needs proof an idea is correct before credit is given to the appropriate people. Mr. Marsh needs to show what type of "proof" to the people who are paying for his archaeological dig in the desert?

4. The cow turning the large water wheel walks at 0.6 m/s. How long does it take it to travel 50 m?

5. Why is Mr. Marsh working like a scientist by studying the plan of the dig?

6. Was Mr. Marsh correct in chastising young Geoff Lowe about his opinion that time spent on the small dig is wasted time?

7. What would a trail of artifacts buried in the ground tell Mr. Marsh?

8. Is the grass in the small courtyard at the entrance to the Luxor temple complex native to the desert?

9. Carol and Peter see Geoff selling his camera in the marketplace. Why are they surprised?

10. Yussef and Ali are walking at 0.2 m/s from the dig, trailing behind Ramzi. If Yussef throws Geoff's knife toward Ramzi at 3.2 m/s, what is its speed?

11. Ramzi runs from Ali and Yussef at 1.2 m/s. If they chase after him at 1.6 m/s, what is their relative speed compared to Ramzi?

12. Most of the tombs discovered in the Valley of the Kings had been hidden for thousands for years. How is this like Mr. Marsh's situation?

13. Why does Mr. Marsh caution Ali against digging too energetically in the trench?

14. We see people doing what jobs as they "work" the dig in a methodical, scientific way?

15. Carol, Peter and Ramzi discovered what evidence that Ali and Yussef had removed the stone from the bottom of the trench?

16. What plan did the children conceive to locate the stone?

17. What search pattern did the children use to increase their chances of finding Geoff in the wadi?

18. How had Ali and Yussef cleverly hidden the stone?

19. What does the film say about luck as a part of science and discovery?