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Writing claim, evidence, and reasoning (CER) statements is an important, but often difficult task for students. This engaging digital escape challenge, made as a Google Form, offers students a chance to practice skills in recognizing scientific claims, evidence, and reasoning. It provides models for writing CER arguments that will help when your students complete these tasks on their own. This escape challenge has 4 puzzles and was designed for a 40-minute class period. The 4 puzzles addres

These eight, self-grading, Google Forms quizzes on skills in claim, evidence, and reasoning (CER) provide great formative assessment. These quizzes can easily be assigned for warm-ups or exit tickets. Each quiz has three questions about a specific skill. There are two unique quizzes of each type, including the following topics: - Recognizing a claim, evidence, and reasoning statement - Identifying a scientific claim statement - Matching scientific evidence to support a claim statement -

Hypothesis writing is an essential skill that students need to practice. This resources offers differentiated worksheets as, an excellent addition to your scientific method unit. Six realistic sets of observations and a focused question provide the prompt for students to write a clear, testable hypothesis. An introduction section helps students review the definition and requirements of a good hypothesis. A differentiated version is included that provides structured sentence formats. An ans

This activity models how the atoms of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen are conserved and flow from the process of photosynthesis to cellular respiration. This cut and paste activity includes a student activity guide and models of water, carbon dioxide, glucose, and oxygen molecules. A teacher's guide also provides you with suggestions to make this a successful activity in your classroom. This activity can be completed through the traditional cut and paste method on paper or as a digital activit

Using CER (Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning) format, this set of four worksheets provides scaffolding for your science students to begin writing their own conclusion to their own investigations and experiments. Four worksheets: 1) Sample CER conclusion in which the student identify the claim, reasoning, and evidence 2) Modeling CER- which you can do together as a class 3 and 4) Individual student practice worksheet Also available from Make Them Think are: ⭐ Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning in S

Studying human body systems in October? Are your students ready for a fun filled Halloween review of human body systems? This Google Form Escape Room is ready to use with no prep. Plus, its self grading and provides immediate feedback to your students. This activity is best used as a review after your students have studied the human body systems and their representative organs, homeostasis in the human body, and levels of organization within the human body. If you wish to omit one or more o

These twenty, self-grading, Google Forms quizzes on scientific method skills provide great formative assessment. These quizzes can easily be assigned for warm-ups or exit tickets. Each quiz has three questions about a specific skill. There are two unique quizzes of each type, including the following topics: - Scientific Method Vocabulary- Scientific Observations - Qualitative vs. Quantitative Observations- Observation, Inference, or Prediction- Testable Hypothesis- Independent vs. Dependent Vari

Writing claim, evidence, and reasoning (CER) statements is an important, but often difficult task for students. This engaging digital escape room is perfect for the Christmas holiday season. Made as a Google Form, this escape challenge offers students a chance to practice skills in recognizing scientific claims, evidence, and reasoning. It provides models for writing CER arguments that will help when your students complete these tasks on their own. This escape challenge has 4 puzzles and w

Climate change is a complex topic that should to be explored by all students. In this activity students will learn about the following causes of climate change: - solar cycles - Milankovitch cycles - greenhouse gases - burning fossil fuels -melting of the permafrost - decreased albedo effect - nitrous oxide - deforestation - warming oceans - beef cattle - CFC and HFC - sulfur hexafluoride As students move from card to card in the gallery walk scavenger hunt, they search for answers to find the h

Are you looking for a way to keep your science students engaged even on Halloween? This Halloween CER Escape Challenge is a perfect way to practice this important, but often difficult skill of claim, evidence, and reasoning (CER) argumentation. Made as a Google Form, this escape challenge offers students a chance to practice skills in recognizing scientific claims, evidence, and reasoning. It provides models for writing CER arguments that will help when your students complete these tasks on

Are you looking for a way to keep your science students engaged and practicing CER skills even at the end of the school year? This School's Out for Summer CER Escape Challenge is a perfect way to practice the important, but often difficult skill of claim, evidence, and reasoning (CER) argumentation. Made as a Google Form, this escape challenge offers students a chance to practice skills in recognizing scientific claims, evidence, and reasoning. It provides models for writing CER arguments t

Are you looking for a way to keep your science students engaged and practicing CER skills on Earth Day? This Earth Day CER Escape Challenge is a perfect way to practice the important, but often difficult skill of claim, evidence, and reasoning (CER) argumentation. Made as a Google Form, this escape challenge offers students a chance to practice skills in recognizing scientific claims, evidence, and reasoning. It provides models for writing CER arguments that will help when your students com

Hot air balloons offer an amazing ride, but how do they work? Pique your students' interest by having your them apply their physical science knowledge of gas laws and density to explain how hot air balloons work. To be successful, students will need to know about the following topics: - density - floating and sinking - gas laws Teaching density? Make more real life connections through a unique STEM activity. ⭐ Density- Recycling Plastics- STEM ChallengeRelated Products⭐ Accelerat

Climate change is a complex topic that should to be explored by all students. In this activity students will learn about the following effects of climate change: - changing seasons - changing precipitation - increased storm strength - coral bleaching - rising sea levels - increased spread of disease - decreased biodiversity - heat waves - wildfires - decreased food availability As students move from card to card in the gallery walk scavenger hunt, they search for answers to find the hidden phras

Are you looking for a way to keep your science students engaged even on St. Patrick's Day? This St. Patrick's Day CER Escape Challenge is a perfect way to practice the important, but often difficult skill of claim, evidence, and reasoning (CER) argumentation. Made as a Google Form, this escape challenge offers students a chance to practice skills in recognizing scientific claims, evidence, and reasoning. It provides models for writing CER arguments that will help when your students complete

Are you looking for a way to keep your science students engaged even on Valentine's Day? This Valentine's Day CER Escape Challenge is a perfect way to practice the important, but often difficult skill of claim, evidence, and reasoning (CER) argumentation. Made as a Google Form, this escape challenge offers students a chance to practice skills in recognizing scientific claims, evidence, and reasoning. It provides models for writing CER arguments that will help when your students complete the

Are you looking for a fun, engaging way to review claim, evidence, and reasoning (CER) in the New Year? This New Year CER Escape Challenge is a perfect way to practice this important, but often difficult skill of claim, evidence, and reasoning (CER) argumentation. Made as a Google Form, this escape challenge offers students a chance to practice skills in recognizing scientific claims, evidence, and reasoning. It provides models for writing CER arguments that will help when your students com

Build your student's scientific vocabulary and empower their comprehension through this visual display. The following 30 terms are included: - problem - phenomena - scientific method - inference - prediction - hypothesis - investigation - scientific question - observation - qualitative observation - quanitative observation - data - control - variable - manipulated variable - responding variable - independent variable - dependent variable - experiment - procedure - conclusion - verify - falsify

This cap and trade classroom simulation activity was designed to actively engage students in exploring not only the process of cap and trade, but also the advantages and disadvantages of the system. Students should have a basic understanding of what the cap and trade market is before beginning this activity. Other concepts they should understand are supply, demand, market equilibrium, surplus and deficit. This activity is designed for groups of 4 students, but can be played as a whole classroom

At least 99% of bacteria are beneficial to human and environmental health, but most of our students just know bacteria to cause disease. Help your students gain a broader understanding of bacteria through this gallery walk scavenger hunt. As students move from card to card in the gallery walk scavenger hunt, they search for answers to find the hidden phrase. The hidden phrase puzzle provides the perfect motivation to capture the students' attention and get them to read and reread passages to