About this Product
• This product includes bell ringers designed as warmups or exit slips

• A single activity usually can be completed in five minutes

• Students do NOT need prior knowledge to complete a bell ringer

• Students DO need a dictionary or glossary to complete a bell ringer

• Bell ringers align with other teaching materials from the unit

• Digital activities and editable presentation included.

• Answer key included.

Important Notes:

• Download a FREE Bell Ringer Unit to learn more about my bell ringers

• Save $$ with the Nature of Science Bundle

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Topics Covered:

Bell Ringer #1: The Scientific Method

Bell Ringer #2: Making Observations

Bell Ringer #3: Making Inferences

Bell Ringer #4: Asking a Testable Question

Bell Ringer #5: Forming a Hypothesis

Bell Ringer #6: Planning an Investigation

Bell Ringer #7: Identifying Variables

Bell Ringer #8: The Experimental Method

Bell Ringer #9: Organizing Data

Bell Ringer #10: Analyzing Data

Bell Ringer #11: Forming a Conclusion

Bell Ringer #12: Reducing and Recognizing Error

Bell Ringer #13: Recognizing Bias

Bell Ringer #14: Communicating Scientific Ideas

Bell Ringer #15: Arguing Scientific Ideas

Bell Ringer #16: CER (Claim-Evidence-Reasoning)

Bell Ringer #17: Critiquing Scientific Ideas

About Bell Ringers

• Each bell ringer is three questions tiered to Bloom's Taxonomy (see below)

• 1/2 and full page printing option - full page option optimized for 3-ring binders

• Digital bell ringers allow students to answer questions directly in a fillable slide

• An editable presentation (pptx file) of all bell ringers is included. The file is compatible with both PowerPoint and Google Slides.

DIGITAL RESOURCES

This resource includes modified files that facilitate online - distance learning:

• Fillable slides designed to work with Google Slides and Microsoft PowerPoint

Important Notes about Fillable Slides:

• Digital assignments work seamlessly with Google Slides: WATCH ME

• Each assignment is saved as an individual file with the key removed.

• Digital assignments CANNOT be edited. Only the text boxes or forms can be manipulated.

All Digital resources can be shared via platforms that are password-protected or accessible only to students.

Differentiation and Tiering

A colored shape code is denoted to help you differentiate concepts:

• Bell Ringers with a green circle covers basic ideas and understandings.

• Bell Ringers with a blue square covers intermediate ideas and understandings.

• Bell Ringers with a black diamond covers advanced ideas and understandings.

A signal strength is used to help probe lower, mid and higher order thinking:

• “Low” signal strength assesses the ability to remember, recall and understand

• “Medium” signal strength assesses the ability to apply, analyze or explain

• “High” signal strength assesses the ability to evaluate, judge or interpret

Note: Some units do not include all levels of differentiation.

NGSS Alignment

• This resource supports NGSS Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs) and Nature of Science topics (NOS).

TERMS OF USE

• All rights reserved by Stephanie Elkowitz.

• This product is to be used by the original purchaser only.

• Intended for classroom and personal use only.

• Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited.

• This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view.

• Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).