Description
Are your students struggling with writing their claim evidence reasoning? Do they have difficulty interpreting and analyzing graphs, diagrams, and data tables? Are you finding it difficult to find middle school 8th grade NGSS science test prep questions that mimic the state test and help students review and learn test-taking strategies? This solves all of those problems and more. Introducing the Science Teacher Ultimate Tool Kit.
What students are doing during these activities:
✴️ Interpreting data and diagrams
✴️ Organizing evidence from the data
✴️ Identifying key details from the passage
✴️ Explaining the evidence using their own knowledge and details from the passage
✴️ Answering the question with a claim
✴️ Supporting their claim with evidence
✴️ Justifying their evidence
✴️ checking their work with a self-assessment checklist and rubric
✴️ Identifying the question
✴️ Researching and brainstorming on what is needed for a great coffee cup
✴️ building and iterating
✴️ Hypothesizing and designing
✴️ Recording data and observations
✴️ Analyzing and drawing conclusions
This Science Teachers Ultimate Tool Kit includes:
The Interpreting Diagrams and Graphs Claim Evidence Reasoning Products that include:
✅ 33 experiments and studies to analyze
✅ Simple one-page background information sheet to explain the topics
✅ Four different scientific explanation summary templates
✅ Grading rubric
✅ Student Self-assessment checklist
✅ Graphic organizers
✅ Sentence frames for those that need extra support
✅ BONUS: Teacher guided presentation to help students go through and answer the practice questions ONLY available if you buy the bundle
The NGSS Test Prep and Strategies Products that includes:
✅ 21 test prep practice questions with graphs, data tables, and diagrams
✅ Mulitple-choice, multi-answer, and short (CER) questions
✅ Teacher slide presentation to guide the students with the strategies and how they can help them
✅ Answers for the example questions
The Scientific Method and Engineering Design Process Inquiry investigation which includes:
✅ Two different inquiry investigations (Creative Cup Competition and Consumer Testing: best paper towel)
✅ Student handouts and instructions
✅ Teacher guide for both
✅ grading rubric
The Lab Report Template that Includes:
✅ blank lab report template ready to be filled in by students
✅ Rubric to grade the lab report
✅ science experiment scenario
✅ example filled in lab report based on the science experiment scenario
✅ print and digital versions
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What teachers like you are saying about these activities
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐”Always looking for CER activities that i can just quickly upload”
⭐⭐⭐⭐”This was a huge help in my student’s reviewing for their state test in MS. I appreciate your hard work in compiling this useful information!”
⭐⭐⭐⭐ “”This resource kicks butt for teaching all of my students how to use the CER structure. From my almost no-English speaking students to my native English speakers, this has been invaluable in structuring their response to informational writing and claims. Thank you!””
These activities will help students master writing scientific explanation summaries and support their claims with evidence from graphs, diagrams,and data tables and then linking the evidence with reasoning from background knowledge and key details from the passages.
Comes with language support, in the form of graphic organizers and sentence frames. Plus a generic rubric to help you grade students’ CERs and a self-assessment checklist. This is great for integrating the Common Core into your science class.
included in this claim evidence reasoning activity product:
✅ 33 experiments and studies to analyze
✅ Simple one-page background information sheet to explain the topics
✅ Four different scientific explanation summary templates
✅ Grading rubric
✅ Student Self-assessment checklist
✅ Graphic organizers
✅ Sentence frames for those that need extra support
✅ BONUS: Teacher guided presentation to help students go through and answer the practice questions ONLY available if you buy the bundle