reasoning — Lesson Plans & Printables by River X. Suh

Distance Learning Agenda:

Pre-Assess in Forms w/ video, what is evidence, what evidence is valid in Dad-Is-Alien argument
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
Review Jay-Z CER & Formative (haha) assess 3 Ignoble CERs: https://forms.gle/mf4sv5WWsorQRq5u8
Revise Mars after gallery walk
CER breakout pairs for practice argumentation, scribing on 1 shared Doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VmlYn5Z7ND2tYSr3e-uSyGi59dbtl_j8-95j5csCpWw/edit?usp=sharing
Gallery Walk, leave comments, freeze doc & assign individual re-write
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

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