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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2020
© 2020 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 36, No. 26
Did unicorns ever exist? Explore
the mystery on today’s puzzling
Kid Scoop
page!
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order and color
the unicorn.
The unicorn is usually described as an ideal being, possessing
qualities people admire. While the animal does not exist, the
qualities do.
Each unicorn below has a puzzle piece in its mouth.
Match each piece with an identical piece that
contains a word describing a unicorn quality.
Standards Link: Literary
Analysis: Students understand
the origin of legends.
Several hundred years ago, people
sold mysterious horns that were said
to be unicorn horns. These horns
were straight; most animal horns are
curved. Some were more than seven
feet long and had spirals running
down the entire length.
cientists have
found the bones of
a “dinosaur unicorn.”
The bagaceratops was
a small, plant-eating
dinosaur that was about
three feet (1m) long
and lived in Asia about
80 million years ago.
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Standards Link: Reading
Comprehension: Follow simple
written directions.
The name bagaceratops means
“small horned face.”
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Connect the dots to see what
bagaceratops looked like.
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Today we know that many of those
horns were from a shy sea animal
called a narwhal. Cut out and
assemble the puzzle pieces to learn
a surprising fact about these
“unicorns of the sea.”
Standards Link: Life Science: Animals have features
that help in survival.
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or thousands of years, people all over the world
have told stories about a magical,
mysterious one-horned animal: the
unicorn. In some of these stories,
unicorns were huge and in others
they were tiny and playful.
Some were pure white; others had
horns and bodies
of many colors.
Some were
Cut out these
fierce and
boxes. Put
brave. Others
them together
were peaceful.
in the correct
Some people
think that
unicorn stories
started from sightings
of a one-horned
rhinoceros or a gazelle
in profile.
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Standards Link: Life Science:
Students know that some animals
that once lived on Earth have
completely disappeared.
Can you find
a person in the
newspaper who
demonstrates
the qualities
people associate
with unicorns?
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n 1968, The Unicorn Song became a top ten hit on the
radio. The song, written by children’s book author Shel
Silverstein, told a story about the unicorn playing when he
should have been boarding Noah’s ark.
Find the two dancing unicorns that are identical.
UNICORN
DINOSAUR
NARWHAL
MAGICIAN
SNEAKY
FIERCE
RADIO
PEACEFUL
PEOPLE
HORNS
SPIRALS
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FACE
PIECE
HUGE
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Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
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