Claims - Evidence - Reasoning
The use of the claims-evidence-reasoning (CER) approach is incorporated throughout our curriculum to help students develop skills providing explanations for how nature works. Below we highlight the lessons that use CER.
Grade 6 Lessons
1.13 Earth Systems Deep Dive Part III
4.9 Animal Behavior and Survival Part IV
4.10 Animal Action! Protecting Animals in an Age of Climate Change
4.11 Plant Structures and Survival Part I
4.12 Plant Structures and Survival Part II
4.14 Plant Structures and Survival Part IV
4.15 Plant Action! Protecting Plants in an Age of Climate Change
Grade 7 Lessons
1.7 Thinking Like A Scientist: Introduction to Claim-Evidence-Reasoning
1.9 Looking for Evidence: Continental Puzzle
1.10 Looking for Evidence: Seafloor Part I
1.11 Looking for Evidence: Seafloor Part II
2.5 Worldwide Petroleum Distribution Part I
2.6 Worldwide Petroleum Distribution Part II
2.7 Worldwide Petroleum Distribution Part III
2.21 Transportation’s Carbon Footprint Part I
3.23 Analyzing Food Choices Part III
4.3 Can Our Soil Feed Everyone? Part I
5.14 Staying Above Water: Reducing the Risk of Floods Part II
Grade 8 Lessons
3.5 Human Consumption and Earth Systems
3.12 Wave Behavior Lab Part II (Light in the Ocean Extension)
3.18 Analog and Digital Part I
3.19 Analog and Digital Part II
3.20 Analog and Digital Part III
5.6 KE Cluster: Design Experiments
5.7 KE Cluster: Mass Experiments
5.8 KE Cluster: Speed Experiments
5.10 Engineering Drag Racers Part I
5.11 Engineering Drag Racers Part II