Making Science Real

......Teaching and learning science in the real world

Resources

Content Areas and Skills

Claim, Evidence, Reasoning

Student Collaboration

Resources for All Science Classes

The resources linked below provide support strategies for most any science class.

Have a TA? Here’s an editable list of TA duties and an editable contract

Writing the Claim: Claim, Evidence, Reasoning

A claim is an answer to a question. Just about any question, actually.

You’ve come up with a question to investigate. You’ve gathered data, either from your own procedure and methodology, or perhaps from data compiled by others. You may have organized those data in a way that points to a pattern. Voila! Proof, right?

Nope.

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Back to School Activities NOT To Do

It’s the first day of school.

You welcome students at the door and show them to their seats. You pass out books and materials, introduce yourself. You read the syllabus and get your kids motivated with an icebreaker. Right?

Nope. Not me.

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Claim Evidence Reasoning – the Terms

All teachers give lab safety instruction, right? Students learn to wear chemical splash goggles whenever chemicals, glassware, or heat are present. They learn what to wear on lab day, how to handle flames and glassware and chemicals, and how to operate and lab equipment they may need.

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