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Description: You will be able to read and understand the importance of 4 topics; claim evidence and reasoning, main idea, fact and opinion, and cause and effect. This teaches students about the importance of scientific arguments. Can be used in SST, SCI, and ENG.
Thank you so much
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1. LIVE INTERACTIVE LEARNING @ YOUR DESKTOP
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How Do You Know That? Helping Students
Write About Claims and Evidence
Presented by: Jodi Wheeler-Toppen
December 12, 2012
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Eastern time
3. Welcome!
Quick Poll:
How do you use a claims and evidence approach in your
classroom?
a) I’m still learning about it.
b) I talk about it in the context of how science works.
c) Students are required to support claims with evidence in
class discussions.
d) Students have to write claims and support them with
evidence for some or all labs.
e) We have class discussion and writing activities that revolve
around making claims and supporting them with evidence.
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4. This Evening
Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning
• Session Plan
– Solve a murder mystery
– Look at the structure for C‐E‐R arguments and
what they look like in science
– Tackle the practical issues of helping students do
this kind of writing
– Look at a science mystery, with competing claims
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5. “Slip or Trip”
– Adapted from: Hillocks, G. Teaching Argument
Writing: Grades 6‐12. Portsmouth, NH:
Heinemann Press.
• He adapted it from: Treat, Lawrence, and Kathleen
Borowik. Crime and Puzzlement 2: More Solve‐them‐yourself
Picture Mysteries. Boston: D.R. Godine, 1982.
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6. Use a clip art “hand” to point to any
evidence you deem important.
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7. Was Queenie telling the truth?(Did
Arthur trip and fall to his death?)
Evidence Reasoning (Why is this
evidence important?)
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8. Possible Claims
• Queenie is telling the truth. Arthur tripped
and fell to his death.
• Queenie is lying. Arthur did not trip and fall to
his death.
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10. Claim:
Is Queenie telling the truth?
Evidence:
Reasoning:
Evidence:
Reasoning:
Evidence:
Reasoning:
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11. Claims—Evidence—Reasoning (CER)
• Claim
– Answer to the question!
– Usually the easiest for students
• Evidence
– Must be appropriate
– Must be sufficient
• Reasoning
– Explains how the evidence supports the claim
– Often includes scientific principles
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12. Why take a C‐E‐R Approach?
• Students are more successful understanding what’s
going on than with the generic term “Conclusions.”
• This is how you make an argument or explanation
convincing.
• This is what scientists do.
• This is the language of both the Common Core and the
Next Generation Science Standards.
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13. Common Core Standards:
Writing in History, Science, Technical Subjects
WHST.6‐8.1. Write arguments focused on discipline‐specific content.
• Introduce claim(s) about a topic or issue, acknowledge and
distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and
organize the reasons and evidence logically.
• Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant, accurate data
and evidence that demonstrate an understanding of the topic or
text, using credible sources.
• Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the
relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
• Establish and maintain a formal style.
• Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and
supports the argument presented.
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14. Next Generation Science Standards
Scientific and Engineering Practices
1. Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering)
2. Developing and using models
3. Planning and carrying out investigations
4. Analyzing and interpreting data
5. Using mathematics and computational thinking
6. Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for
engineering)
7. Engaging in argument from evidence
8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
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15. Why write it down?
• Writing is a key science skill. Science depends on the
written record to build on existing knowledge.
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16. Why Writing Is Important
• Writing helps students learn.
– It forces them to organize their thoughts and find
the relationships between ideas.
–Writing holds ideas in place long enough for
students to think about them.
–Writing gets all students to participate.
• Writing helps you (as the teacher) spot
misconceptions.
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17. (Earth) Science Example
From this FREE Claims and Evidence Unit: Cyber‐enabled Earth Exploration
Curriculum– www.spatialsci.com/CE3 (covers volcanoes, earthquakes and plate
tectonics using Google Earth)
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18. Life Science Example
What Shape are Cells? (student‐selected question)
(From Cells R Us, Chapter 5 in Once Upon a Life Science Book: 12 Interdisciplinary
activities to create confident readers, by Jodi Wheeler‐Toppen.)
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19. Physical Science Example
Does a lever make work easier?
Levers sometimes make work easier. (Claim) When we picked
up the load without the lever, it was 2.2 N. When the load was
5.0 cm from the fulcrum and the effort was 10 cm from the
fulcrum, it was 0.8 N. When the load was 20 cm from the
fulcrum and the effort was 10 cm from the fulcrum, it was 4.3
N. When the load was 10 cm from the fulcrum and the effort
was 5.0 cm, it was 5.3 N. When the load was 10 cm from the
fulcrum and the effort was 20 cm, it was 1.3 N (Evidence)
Doing work is the ability to move an object. If it takes less
force, the work is easier. A lever can make work easier
depending on the position of the fulcrum, effort and load.
When the fulcrum is close to the load and far from the effort,
the work is easier. (Reasoning)
(A sample from Katherine McNeill, used with permission. See:
McNeill, K. and Martin, D. 2011. Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning: Demystifying
data during a unit on simple machines. Science and Children, 48(8).)
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20. Chemistry example
Is there something solid under the cardboard sheet? If so what shape is it?
[Rutherford’s Atom Simulation]
There is something under there because some of
the marbles bounced back. They would go through
if there was nothing there. I think it’s square
because they came straight back on all sides and we
had a square shaped blank spot on our lab sheet.
[Note: an explanation of how marbles bounce
against different shapes would complete the
reasoning here.]
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21. Questions?
• About the Claims‐Evidence‐Reasoning
approach?
• About writing?
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22. Helping students succeed—
Before they write
• Talk about why you’re using the CER framework:
– This is how you make an argument or explanation
convincing.
– This is what scientists do.
• Help students generate (or give them) a clear
question.
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23. Prewriting
• Science Ideas
– What are some possible claims?
– Where will you look for your evidence?
– What reasons show that this is good evidence?
(Gradually reduce support)
• What science words will you want to include?
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24. Prewriting
• Audience: Are you explaining this to the
teacher (who really knows what happened) or
to an outside audience?
• Language: Should you use casual or formal
language?
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25. • What writing words will you want to include?
– Because
– Sequencing words: first, second, third
– “Uncertainty” words: usually, generally; suggests,
indicates
– Therefore
– If… Then…
– However
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26. “Therefore”: connects reasoning to
the claim
What claim can you make about the movement
of water when the egg was in the syrup?
Student: The egg was squished [ie, smaller] and
we got more syrup than we started with.
Teacher adds: Therefore, water moved from the
egg into the syrup.
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27. “Therefore”: connects reasoning to
the claim
• Claim: What makes up the grasshopper’s
skeleton?
The skin. We looked and there’s no bones. The
muscle connect to the skin. In people, muscle
connect to the bones. Bones are our skeleton.
Therefore, skin is their skeleton.
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28. If…Then… helps you say what you
would predict to happen
There is something under there because some of
the marbles bounced back. They would go through
if there was nothing there. I think it’s square
because they came straight back on all sides and we
had a square shaped blank spot on our lab sheet.
If there was nothing under the cardboard, then the
marble should go straight through.
However…
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29. Prewriting: What can you actually see
yourself doing with your class?
Helping them think through
the science ideas
Having them list science words to
include
Talking about a writing word or
two they might include
Considering audience and/or
formality of the language
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30. After they give it a try
Look at strong and weak arguments with the class.
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31. Do cockroaches prefer light or dark
environments?
Cockroaches prefer dark environments. They want
to hide from us. Because cockroaches have those
long antennae, maybe they can just feel their way
around and don’t need light to see.
Cockroaches prefer dark environments. When we
let 10 cockroaches choose between the light and
dark side of a box, 9 of them chose the dark side.
Since more of the roaches chose the dark, we can
tell that is what they prefer.
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32. Evaluation ‐ Don’t get overwhelmed
with grading
• Replace lab report (or portion of it) with Claims/
Evidence/ Reasoning language
• Quickly sort by levels of understanding for short
assignments (no grade; just for your own
feedback)
• Quickly mark a rubric
• Peer review or self‐review using a simple system
(underline the claim in green…) or a rubric
• Let some writing just be practice
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34. Questions?
• Questions about implementing C‐E‐R in your
classroom?
• Questions about helping the students with
writing?
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35. More from the Common Core
Write arguments focused on discipline‐specific content:
Grades 9‐10:
• Introduce precise claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing
claims, and create an organization that establishes clear relationships among
the claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
• Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly, supplying data and evidence for
each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both claim(s) and
counterclaims in a discipline‐appropriate form and in a manner that
anticipates the audience’s knowledge level and concerns.
Grades 11‐12
• Introduce precise, knowledgeable claim(s), establish the significance of the
claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and create
an organization that logically sequences the claim(s), counterclaims, reasons,
and evidence.
• Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly and thoroughly, supplying the most
relevant data and evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and
limitations of both claim(s) and counterclaims in a discipline‐appropriate form
that anticipates the audience’s knowledge level, concerns, values, and possible
biases.
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38. Where do flies come from?
Claim Counter/ competing claim
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39. Where do flies come from?
Claim Counter/ competing claim
Flies only come from other
flies
Flies come from rotting meat
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40. Where Do Flies Come From?
You are Redi, addressing a group
of scientists familiar with this
debate.
• Claim: Flies only come from
other flies.
• Evidence
• Reasoning
• Counterclaim
• Evidence against
• Reasoning for evidence
against
• Summary statement (a lovely
place for a “therefore”)
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41. Help me find: Claim and counterclaim;
Evidence/Evidence against; Reasoning
Flies only come from other flies. Maggots, which develop into flies, only
formed on the meat in the first flask. Flies could land on that meat, and
they produced maggots there. Those who support spontaneous generation
would say that rotting meat alone or in combination with air creates flies.
If rotting meat alone could produce maggots, then there would be
maggots in flask 2, which was sealed. If rotting meat in combination with
air could produce maggots, then there would be maggots in flask 3, which
allowed air, but not flies, through the gauze. However, neither of these
flasks had maggots. Therefore, flies are necessary to produce more flies.
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42. Help me find: Claim and counterclaim;
Evidence/Evidence against; Reasoning
Flies only come from other flies. Maggots, which develop into flies, only formed on the
meat in the first flask. Flies could land on that meat, and they produced maggots there.
Those who support spontaneous generation would say that rotting meat alone or in
combination with air creates flies. If rotting meat alone could produce maggots, then
there would be maggots in flask 2, which was sealed. If rotting meat in combination
with air could produce maggots, then there would be maggots in flask 3, which allowed
air, but not flies, through the gauze. However, neither of these flasks had maggots.
Therefore, flies are necessary to produce more flies.
[Note: 11‐12th grade standards would also want the writer to position this
within the larger argument of spontaneous generation.]
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43. Further Information
• McNeill, K. and Martin, D. 2011. Claims, Evidence, and
Reasoning: Demystifying data during a unit on simple
machines. Science and Children, 48(8).
• Preparing for the Next Generation Science Standards—
Engaging in Argument from Evidence by Joe Krajcik
(NSTA Webinar Archive)
• Teaching Argument Writing: Supporting claims with
relevant evidence and clear reasoning by George
Hillocks, Jr. (Heinemann Press)
• Cyber‐enabled Earth Exploration Curriculum–
www.spatialsci.com/CE3 (covers volcanoes,
earthquakes and plate tectonics using Google Earth)
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44. Final Questions
• On counterclaims?
• On anything else we’ve discussed?
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45. Thanks to today’s presenter!
Jodi Wheeler-Toppen
• Former science teacher
• NSTA Press author
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today’s web seminar:
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47. National Science Teachers Association
Gerry Wheeler, Interim Executive Director
Zipporah Miller, Associate Executive Director,
Conferences and Programs
Al Byers , Ph.D., Assistant Executive Director,
e-Learning and Government Partnerships
Flavio Mendez, Senior Director, NSTA Learning
Center
NSTA Web Seminars
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Jeff Layman, Technical Coordinator
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