Lesson (2x): Claim-Evidence-Reasoning

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Distance Learning Agenda:

  1. Pre-Assess in Forms w/ video, what is evidence, what evidence is valid in Dad-Is-Alien argument

  2. Breakout Room card sort of evidence from Mars Opportunity rover, 1 shared Doc https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Fa85BSs970inCMMQ6HdmS_SWtBx91Fx5-fFXW96y_Wc/edit?usp=sharing

  3. Review Jay-Z CER & Formative (haha) assess 3 Ignoble CERs: https://forms.gle/mf4sv5WWsorQRq5u8

  4. Revise Mars after gallery walk

  5. CER breakout pairs for practice argumentation, scribing on 1 shared Doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VmlYn5Z7ND2tYSr3e-uSyGi59dbtl_j8-95j5csCpWw/edit?usp=sharing

  6. Gallery Walk, leave comments, freeze doc & assign individual re-write

  7. Card sort mouse experiment variables 8. Learn how to write a testable question & design first experiment

Access Breakout Room Shared Slides card sort for this activity here.

Access CER argumentation pairs here .

I made an evidence-inference card sort based on evidence the Opportunity rover photographed on Mars. I assign each breakout room to a slide, students work together to sort ir/relevant evidence for the claim. I include the slide here. The sorting is the background image and the cards are actual images, so there's no typing or accidentally rewording things. Template slide at end for your edits.

Some guidance: Duplicate Slide 1 as many times as you have breakout rooms. Set Permission to Edit.

Option: Save completed slide as JPEG and email or submit as Form to instructor. Some framing: I follow up with a Do After that asks them to identify claim, evidence, and reasoning in several paragraphs. They also have a series of evidence-inference polls where we discuss the reasoning behind each answer.

Time: 55 minutes + 70 minutes

Goals:

  • Identify the claim, evidence, and reasoning in a scientific explanation.

  • Identify relevant evidence to support a scientific explanation, using real NASA photos from Mars.

Additional Prep Required: download external materials from here

Agenda (Pt 1, 55min)

  1. Do Now

  2. Video: Dad is an alien!

  3. Slides: Explaining Science - CER

  4. CER: Penny

  5. Solo: Analyze

  6. Pairs: Peer Review

Assessments

Formative (CER: Analyze; Mars check-ins); Summative: Mars Spoken Explanation

Agenda (Pt 2, 70min)

  1. Do Now

  2. Video: Are cats liquid or solid?

  3. Slides: Claim - Evidence - Reasoning

  4. Activity: Identifying Relevant Evidence…on Mars!

  5. Pairs: Peer Review

Sources

Learning Design Group, Reteaching Loop: Understanding the Role of Relevant Evidence in Supporting a Claim

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