Claim Evidence Reasoning Quiz Practice

What is a claim?

• Answers a question or problem

• long and detailed paragraph

• Explains why something happened

What is evidence ?

• Answers a question

• Anything you see, hear or read or experience that causes you to believe something is true.

• Long and detailed paragraph

What is reasoning?

• Answers a question

• Explaining how evidence supports a claim- the how and why

• Used to prove something true or false

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

What is an example of a claim?

• Tornados are destructive.

• In the fall, because of changes in the length of daylight and changes in temperature, the leaves stop their food-making process.

• The data shows that when leaves are taken away from sunlight, they change colors.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is an example of reasoning?

• Honey is stored in hives.

• Honeybees store their honey in hives.

• Honeybees use hexagons to store the honey and pollen they bring to the hive because hexagons make use of all of the space in the hive.

What is an example of evidence?

• Football players are 33% more likely to get injured than baseball players.

• Football is more dangerous than baseball.

• Baseball is a fun sport.

Why do we need evidence?

• To answer a question

• To show how and why

• To support our claim and prove it is true

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

NGSS.HS-PS1-2

Why do we need reasoning?

• To show how and why the evidence fits the claim

• to answer a question

• To prove your claim is true

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Which one of these is an evidence sentence starter?

• Answers a question

• The data shows…

• This is important because…

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

What does a reasoning sentence look like?

• Starts with the words Therefore or Because

• Answers the question

• Information from books