1. Date:
2/1/17
Topic:
CER & CHNOPS
Page # ___
Must wear uniforms/IDs!
2/1/17
EBHS
Admit Slip
Put your required school supplies on your desk for me to check!
(Have $$ out if you owe me!)

2. Journal Setup 1. Write your name and class/room on the front cover!
Your Name Here
Biology, Rm 326
Journal Setup
1. Write your name and class/room on the front cover!
2. Open up the journal, and on the inside of the hard cover, tape my business card:
Website:  Spring Semester
HW Website:  username/password = __________
Review website:  Student login = gately
Journal setup 5 min (!0)

3. Table of Contents 1
Date Title Pg #
Continue labeling, using both sides of the paper, until you reach #10
Journal Setup
Next, on the first page of paper, write at the top “Table of Contents”
Then, make a column with labels as shown above
Then, flip THREE pages (including the first page) and on the FOURTH page, label the top right corner as #1

4. Interactive Notebook This is your interactive notebook!
You will do nearly all your work in here
When you write out Admit Slips, notes, or have questions, where everything in here
Make sure each new day is labeled when you arrive, by looking at the bottom of the Admit Slip 

5. Date:
2/1/17
Title:
CER & CHNOPS
Page # ___
2/1/17
Admit Slip
Put your required school supplies on your desk for me to check!
(Have $$ out if you owe me!)

6. Page Numbering
If there is still half a page left when you start a new class period, that’s ok!
Different titles/topics can be on the same page, just make sure to label them.
You will continue labeling past 10. People will be on different pages- that’s ok too! Just keep your Table of Contents up to date.

7. Date:
2/1/17
Topic:
CER & CHNOPS
Page # ___
9/20/16
(Real) Admit Slip
Choose one of the sentence starters below and make a claim (in journal!).
The best movie is ______________________.
The greatest musical artist (solo or group) is ________________.
The greatest (choose one) football/hockey/baseball/basketball player is _______________.

8. What’s a “claim?” A concluding statement that answers a question*
Usually one sentence in length
Accurate and specific
Example:
Question: Who is the greatest person ever?
Claim: Ms. Gately Is the greatest person ever.

9. What did you claim? Admit slip share out
What are some follow-up questions to any claim?
Why do you think that?
How do you know?
What is your evidence?

10. Other claims? EVIDENCE! Global warming Energy drinks Bottled water
Diets
Axe body spray
Airborne
Organic food
Vaccinations
“2012”
Sketchers “shape-ups”
Vitamins
Car insurance
Balance bracelets
Weight loss meds
How can we VALIDATE a claim?
EVIDENCE!

12. JOURNALS OUT! Take notes!
What is “evidence” ??
Evidence is all the data that supports your claim*
Evidence must be sufficient (enough) and relevant to your claim
Not all data is evidence! (Example?)
Data must be from a reliable source
Important to have MORE THAN ONE piece of evidence! (Why?)
Makes your argument stronger!

13. What comes after evidence?
Make a claim, provide a fact (evidence)… that’s it?
REASONING
Explanation that connects your claim to the evidence*
Shows that you have an understanding of the relationship between the evidence and your claim

14. CER = Claim-Evidence-Reasoning
Formula for advancing an argument!
(Flowchart may help…)

15. CER Flowchart

17. Life on Mars? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHLb XTOaw7w
What are these scientists curious about? What do they want to know?
What data will the rover collect?
How will this data help scientists answer- make claims about- their questions?

18. Claim: “My Dad is an Alien”
QTsue0lKBk
Let’s fill out a chart together…

20. Inquiry Boxes Box 1: Numbers
Question: What do you think is on the bottom?
Claim: (answers the above question in a full sentence)
3 pieces of evidence & reasoning

21. What do you think are the “elements of life”?

22. CHNOPS = elements of life
Carbon
Hydrogen
Nitrogen
Oxygen
Phosphorus
Sulfur

23. Element? Simplest form of a chemical substance
6 of them make up most (98%) of living organisms

24. Which element is the best?
Use the information given on the handout to claim your element is the best!
You need 3 pieces of evidence/reasoning
What is a rebuttal?
Opposing (opposite) argument
Address it, then “refute” it. Meaning say why it is wrong!

26. Who had the best argument?
Share Out
Who had the best argument?
Why?

27. Homework
CHNOPS edpuzzle video
Ignore the date!