Following the Footprints: teacher key

Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, grade 7 edition, written for 7th grade. Huge footprints, a newspaper nickname and a Salish word all shaped the story of Bigfoot. Here is what is known about the prints, the names and the questions people still ask.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What did a California newspaper do in 1958?
   • It found a body
   • It started calling the maker of the footprints "Bigfoot" (answer)
   • It sent prints to London
2. What does the word Sasquatch come from?
   • A Scottish name for a lake
   • A name made up by Ray Wallace
   • A Salish word that means "wild men" (answer)
3. What did Ray Wallace's family say in 2002?
   • He had made the 1958 footprints with carved wooden feet (answer)
   • He had filmed Bigfoot
   • He had found a body
4. What does it mean that tracks are "highly disputed"?
   • People who have studied them agree they are genuine
   • People who have studied them do not agree (answer)
   • Nobody has seen them
5. What does the 1933 museum result at Loch Ness have in common with the Wallace story?
   • Both are about a film
   • Both involved prints questioned as made by people (answer)
   • Both found a skeleton

Words

• Sasquatch: Bigfoot's other name
• hoax: a trick
• casts: plaster copies
• disputed: argued about
• verify: show true