1. Follow These Directions
Please sit down
Take out your agenda book, science notebook, a highlighter and something to write with.
Hand in any late work in the homework.
Sit down quietly and wait for directions

2. Homework
CER Identification
worksheet

3. Tape in CER tab on Page 9
Fill out this box. What is something you wish to know more about CERs? What is something you struggled on the “What can you do” Test?

5. Tape in on page 10

6. NOTES on Page 10 with tape ins
Claim: statement about the results of an investigation/ answer to a question
Evidence: scientific data used to support the claim
*Source must be cited*
Quantitative Data: Numbers
Qualitative Data: Observations
Reasoning: connects the claim and evidence with scientific principles

7. Add page numbers to CER tab vocab

8. Practice… Which part is the Claim. Evidence. Reasoning
Practice… Which part is the Claim? Evidence? Reasoning? Cut out & Write your answer next to sentence
Rain is the worst type of weather
Rain makes you sleepy and you step in puddles.
Being sleepy makes it difficult to concentrate, and stepping in puddles can ruin your shoes.

9. Insert Practice in free space under the CER flap

10. More practice… Which part of this CER is the reasoning?
Going outside with wet hair will not cause you to catch a cold.
The common cold is caused by a viral infection, most commonly the rhinovirus. There are over 200 different viral types associated with the common cold.
The 200+ viral types that cause the common cold are present in the air around us whether your hair is wet or dry. Therefore the idea that the cold is caused by going outside with wet hair is an old wives tale.

11. Homework
CER Identification
worksheet