Writing a CER

Writing a CER

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What is a claim?

• what you do when you find gold

• it's the connect the dots for your reader/audience

• how you wrap up an essay

• a statment you are setting out to prove

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What does CER actually stand for?

• Claim Extra credit Rational

• Creative Extra Reasoning

• Claim Evidence Reasoning

• Claim Evidence Renissance

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The C-E-R framework is used for

• writing specific and accurate scientific explanations

• organizing data from a lab investigation

• analyzing patterns in data

• creating drawings of scientific concepts

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Claim, Evidence, or Reasoning?

Consists of one sentence.

• Claim

• Evidence

• Reasoning

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Claim, Evidence, or Reasoning?

Use keywords and ideas from the question to write this.

• Claim

• Evidence

• Reasoning

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Claim, Evidence, or Reasoning?

Information from a reliable source.

• Claim

• Evidence

• Reasoning

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What is the purpose of reasoning?

• To get full credit

• We need to connect the evidence to the original claim

• We need to justify the evidence

• All of the answers are correct

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What is a good definition for evidence?

• A statement that answers a question
• All data and facts
• Data/facts that support your claim
• Reasoning that justifies your evidence

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What is a good description for claim?

• Any statement
• A statement that answers a question
• A question
• A piece of evidence

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What does the "E" stand for in "CER?"

• eliminate
• energy
• evidence
• equal

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What does the "R" stand for in "CER?"

• relevant
• right
• reverse
• reasoning

Multiple Select

What could the evidence of the pervious claim be? (Students who get less sleep are more likely to perform poorly in academics.) Select up to two

• According to the study, students who went to sleep later, causing them to get less sleep, scored an average of 30% lower on their exams.

• The article said so, plus I agree.

• Students reported feeling more sluggish over all, making it hard to focus and do well on their exams.

• According the the article, the kids were sleepy. When I am sleepy, I also do poorly on my assignments.

Open Ended

What is one difference you noticed with the second CER?

Poll

Is this an accurate CER?

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Which reasoning explains the following evidence? "According to the data, a plant grown in a 5 cm pot only grew to be 4 cm tall, where as a plant in a 10cm pot grow to be 8 cm tall."

• When plants are placed in a bigger pot, the roots have more room to spread out, making it more optimal for a plant to grow taller.

• Sometimes, plants just enjoy being in a bigger pot.

• No one really knows why, it just happened.

• And that is my evidence, thank you.

Reasoning

• Your reasoning should explain how the evidence supports your claim

• Also should explain the scientific phenomena being observed in your experiment

Multiple Choice

Which of these is relevant evidence to this claim: Plants in bigger pots will grow taller.

• My family has a computer at home.

• Some plants grow taller than others.

• According to the data, a plant grown in a 5 cm pot only grew to be 4 cm tall, where as a plant in a 10cm pot grow to be 8 cm tall.

• We observed 10 plants total.

EVIDENCE

• In a scientific CER, you evidence should include some kind of data to back your claim

• Data can be quantitative or qualitative

• Quantitative= numbers, percentages, etc 

• Qualitative= evidence observed (hair color, ethnic group, etc)

Multiple Select

What is an example to a scientific claim that can be proven with evidence?

• Basketballs will bounce higher when filled with more air.

• I think Lil Yachty is the greatest rapper alive.

• Plants with bigger pots will grow taller.

• Onions smell really bad.

CLAIM

• This should be a sentence/statement

• In science, this should be based off of evidence, not an opinion. (However it is possible to make a claim based off your opinion in a subject like History or ELA)

• Should be the answer to a question

What is a CER?

In science we still practice the skill of writing (gasp!) When writing in science, we will typically use something called a CER. This stands for Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning.