7th Grade C E R

Multiple Choice

What does CER actually stand for?

• Claim Extra credit Rational

• Creative Extra Reasoning

• Claim Evidence Reasoning

• Claim Evidence Renissance

Multiple Choice

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

Multiple Choice

What is a good description for claim?

• Any statement

• A statement that answers a question

• A question

• A piece of evidence

Multiple Choice

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 Taylor Swift is the greatest singer alive.

• Plants hate filtered light

• Onions smell really bad.

Multiple Choice

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

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.

Multiple Select

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

• 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.

Multiple Choice

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

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.

Multiple Choice

Claim, Evidence, or Reasoning?

Information from a reliable source.

• Claim

• Evidence

• Reasoning

Multiple Choice

Claim, Evidence, or Reasoning?

Consists of one sentence.

• Claim

• Evidence

• Reasoning

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The

explains why the evidence that you used further proves that your claim is true.

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A

is what you know and what you are stating as true.

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is what you use (often a quote from the text) to prove that your claim is true.