CER Final Assessment

What is a claim?

• Answers a question or problem

• long and detailed paragraph

• Explains why something happened

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

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

• Used to prove something true or false

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

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.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

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 reasoning?

• To show how and why

• to answer a question

• To prove your claim is true

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

Why do we need evidence?

• To answer a question

• To show how and why

• To prove our claim is true

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

What does CER stand for?

• Create Evaluate Respond

• Consider Evidence Relevant

• Claim Evidence Reasoning

• Cause Examine Real-life

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

Ties evidence to claim. 

• Claim
• Evidence 
• Reasoning
• All

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Has specific data, numbers, values, or qualitative descriptions. 

• Claim
• Evidence 
• Reasoning
• All

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

NGSS.MS-PS1-2