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Help students see science happening around them in their everyday life.
Make content and concepts mandated by standards meaningful to students.
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CER is Claim, Evidence, Reasoning – and the basis of science. In reality, we want to find out about something. Maybe we need to solve a problem. Maybe we are simply curious.
We ask a question. We find evidence about the question that leads to an answer. We use what we know and sound science practices to evaluate the evidence. We use reasoning to explain how our evidence answers the question.
Want to learn to make it work for your students?
Blog posts are mostly informal lesson plans. Some are basic strategies for supporting student understanding. You can use the strategies right away, with little planning.