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The scientific claim, evidence, and reasoning lesson includes 8 animated slides that spark student discussion that helps students understand the distinction that scientific claim, evidence, and reasoning has in comparison to these writings in other subjects. Teacher notes are also included. Related Products⭐ Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning in Science Google Form Quizzes - Exit Tickets⭐ Conclusions Writing-Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning in Science (CER)⭐ Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning (CER) in

Claim, evidence, and reasoning writing is one format for engaging in argumentation from evidence, a science and engineering practice. To introduce this writing format to your students in an engaging activity, try this gallery walk scavenger hunt. In this activity, students move from card to card, searching 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 find the answe

Do your students struggle with Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning (CER) writing? Sometimes they need some solid examples of what is claim, evidence, and reasoning. These worksheets were designed to give students examples and non-examples of each of these three parts of CER. Included in this resource are: - Scientific Claims- 1 worksheet- non-scientific claims vs. scientific claims - Scientific Evidence- 3 worksheets- matching scientific evidence to a claim - Scientific Reasoning- 3 workshe

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 -

Climate change is a highly integrated process that is regulated by both positive and negative feedback loops. This worksheet provides detailed explanations of seven phenomena and will allow students to determine how feedback loops impact climate change. At the beginning of the worksheet, students are introduced to the topic of feedback loops through illustrations and explanations of both positive and negative feedback loops. This resource helps students work towards achieving the NGSS-HS-ESS2

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

Simplify the Calvin Cycle and make learning fun, especially for kinesthetic learners! Students often become overwhelmed by the multiple steps and complex names of the Calvin Cycle. Help your students focus on the Cross Cutting Concept of matter and energy flow by deemphasizing names and demonstrating how the carbon atoms and high energy or “excited” electrons move through each step of the process. This activity was created to allow your students to explore the idea of the conservation of matt

Assess if your students can differentiate between observations and inferences. Two worksheets are available in PDF, PowerPoint, or Google Doc forms for digital and print use. Related Products⭐ Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning in Science Google Form Quizzes - Exit Tickets⭐ Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning in Science Lesson- PowerPoint⭐ Conclusions Writing-Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning in Science (CER)⭐ Hypothesis Writing Worksheet⭐ Hypothesis Worksheets- Digital and Print Versions⭐ Scientific

This game about intraspecific competition allows students to explore the need for territory and how intraspecific competition influences predators. Without space, or territory, a predator will not be able to obtain the resources it needs. The game is to be played before any notes or readings are given about competition or resource partitioning. Students are to use the “data” they obtained from the game to arrive at possible conclusions. Their conclusions and questions are then a basis for fur

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

Have your students measured their ecological footprint? Have you challenged them to reduce their ecological footprint? Empower with knowledge about how to reduce their ecological footprint through this engaging this gallery walk scavenger. In this gallery walk scavenger hunt, students move from card to card, searching 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 fin

Ecotourism is gaining popularity among tourists. Your students can learn the advantages and disadvantages of ecotourism through this engaging activity and the summary graphic organizer at the end of the activity. In this gallery walk scavenger hunt, students move from card to card, searching for answers to find the hidden word. The hidden word puzzle provides the perfect motivation to capture the students' attention and get them to read and reread passages to find the answer. Ten short reading

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

This energy pyramid study allows your students to calculate the flow of energy through the energy pyramid. This fun example provides a cross-curricular mathematical application and meets NGSS-HS-LS2-4. While we are often concerned about the Calorie intake of our food, the activity asks students to also think about the Calorie intake that went into growing our food. Background Information: In order to complete this activity, students should understand: Law of Conservation of Energy Law of Ent

Waste management and its influence on groundwater and soil pollution are vital concepts for our students to understand. This STEM design challenge asks students to explore landfill composition and consider ways to improve their efficiency in order to reduce human impact on the environment. This activity may help you teach the way to reduce human impact on the ecosystem, as a part of NGSS-MS-ESS3-3 or NGSS-HS-ESS3-4. Suggested time for this activity is about 3 hours, divided over multiple clas

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

Botany lessons don't have to be boring. Have your students explore plant adaptations through this STEM challenge! Through this STEM challenge, students will discover the necessity of vascular tissue in the life of a tree. The student activity guide is completely editable, allowing you to change materials based upon local availability, point values based upon your classroom standards, and any other portions of the activity you deem necessary to make this activity successful in your classroom

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