Jacque Melin My day at Vanandel

Circle Map Scientific Inquiry

List words or phrases associated with scientific inquiry– your current thinking about this topic.

Scientific Inquiry Categories for the ideas you generated. List words or phrases associated with scientific inquiry– your current thinking about this topic. Scientific Inquiry

Scientific Inquiry Categories for the ideas you generated. List words or phrases associated with scientific inquiry – your current thinking about this topic. What prior knowledge influences your views? What are the personal influences on your perspective? How do your present roles (teacher, mother/father, etc.) influence your point of view? Scientific Inquiry

The QPOE2 Model

A Three Year Plan

Year One Goal

Year 1 Content Questions

Year 1 Content Questions Continued

Goals & Agenda for the day

Habits of Mind Goal: Self-Direction

Day before - simulation

Presentation about the simulation – Claim/Evidence Claim: My claim answers my investigation question. It tells what I learned from my investigation. Does my claim answer my investigation question? Evidence: My evidence is the scientific data I use to support my claim. Does the evidence I used support my claim?

Reasoning Reasoning tells why the data I used is evidence that supports my claim. Reasoning is my argument. A strong argument includes: What I already know How my investigation was a fair test Science words and ideas Ideas, evidence, and arguments of other people.

Claims + Evidence + Reasoning = Explanation This is an introduction to scientific reasoning

Claim: My Father is an Alien Jeff Rohr, a fifth grade teacher in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, suggests using the following Audi commercial to introduce students to the components of an explanation by asking them to identify the claim, the evidence, and the reasoning – or rule – that connects the evidence to the little girl's claim that her dad is a space alien.

CER Graphic This is how we explain things in science. We don’t always have the opportunity to perform experiments. For example, Plate Tectonics…..we can’t just crash continents into one another. 5/20/2019

Claim My dad is an alien Air is matter The velocity is constant A claim answers the question or problem. It states what you (think) you know. My dad is an alien Air is matter The velocity is constant A claim that answers the question Evidence from students' data Reasoning that involves a "rule" or scientific principle that describes why the evidence supports the claim

Evidence Evidence states how you know your claim. Evidence comes from (Qualitative, Quantitative) observations. He has a spaceship An inflated ball weighs more than a “flat” ball. It covers the same distance in the same time.

Evidence For Alien He speaks a weird language He drinks green stuff He says he’s from Albuquerque Just look at him….. He has a space ship.

Reasoning Explain how your evidence supports your claim. Aliens fly spaceships Air has weight (mass), a property of matter. Objects traveling the same speed cover the same distance in the same time.

CER = Explanation Observation Claim Evidence #1 Evidence #2 Reasoning #1 Reasoning #2 Reasoning #3 Use “My dad is an alien” to fill out the chart. You can also use Plate Tectonic

Use scenarios that are real to students Who is the best vocal artist/sports figure/movie/etc.? What time should you get up on the weekend? What is a reasonable allowance for a middle school student? Mysteries “Who done it?”

Basic Requirements of Living Things

Another Claim/Evidence Chart – Basic Requirements of Living Things

Presentation discussion

Analyzing data

Learning about collecting data Qualitative Observations: Data I collect using by five senses (feeling, seeing, hearing, smelling, or tasting). I check with my teacher about tasting. Record by writing descriptions, making sketches, taking photos, using video/audio, samples Quantitative Observations: Data I collect by taking measurements and by counting. Recorded using numbers. Need to be labeled.

Gradual Release – Collecting Data

Pillbugs

Collecting data on Pillbugs

What’s next

Head – Heart - Foot How has this touched your HEAD with a new idea? How has this touched your HEART with a feeling? How has this touched your FOOT with an action to take on something you learned?