1. Jacque Melin
My day at Vanandel

2. Circle Map
Scientific Inquiry

3. List words or phrases associated with scientific inquiry– your current thinking about this topic.

4. Scientific Inquiry Categories for the ideas you generated.
List words or phrases associated with scientific inquiry– your current thinking about this topic.
Scientific Inquiry

5. Scientific Inquiry Categories for the ideas you generated.
List words or phrases associated with scientific inquiry – your current thinking about this topic.
What prior knowledge influences your views?
What are the personal influences on your perspective?
How do your present roles (teacher, mother/father, etc.) influence your point of view?
Scientific Inquiry

6. The QPOE2 Model

7. A Three Year Plan

8. Year One Goal

9. Year 1 Content Questions

10. Year 1 Content Questions Continued

11. Goals & Agenda for the day

12. Habits of Mind Goal: Self-Direction

13. Day before - simulation

14. Presentation about the simulation – Claim/Evidence
Claim: My claim answers my investigation question. It tells what I learned from my investigation.
Does my claim answer my investigation question?
Evidence: My evidence is the scientific data I use to support my claim.
Does the evidence I used support my claim?

15. Reasoning
Reasoning tells why the data I used is evidence that supports my claim. Reasoning is my argument. A strong argument includes:
What I already know
How my investigation was a fair test
Science words and ideas
Ideas, evidence, and arguments of other people.

16. Claims + Evidence + Reasoning
= Explanation
This is an introduction to scientific reasoning

17. Claim: My Father is an Alien
Jeff Rohr, a fifth grade teacher in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, suggests using the following Audi commercial to introduce students to the components of an explanation by asking them to identify the claim, the evidence, and the reasoning – or rule – that connects the evidence to the little girl's claim that her dad is a space alien.

18. CER Graphic
This is how we explain things in science. We don’t always have the opportunity to perform experiments. For example, Plate Tectonics…..we can’t just crash continents into one another.
5/20/2019

19. Claim My dad is an alien Air is matter The velocity is constant
A claim answers the question or problem. It states what you (think) you know.
My dad is an alien
Air is matter
The velocity is constant
A claim that answers the question
Evidence from students' data
Reasoning that involves a "rule" or scientific principle that describes why the evidence supports the claim

20. Evidence
Evidence states how you know your claim. Evidence comes from (Qualitative, Quantitative) observations.
He has a spaceship
An inflated ball weighs more than a “flat” ball.
It covers the same distance in the same time.

21. Evidence For Alien He speaks a weird language He drinks green stuff
He says he’s from Albuquerque
Just look at him…..
He has a space ship.

22. Reasoning Explain how your evidence supports your claim.
Aliens fly spaceships
Air has weight (mass), a property of matter.
Objects traveling the same speed cover the same distance in the same time.

25. CER = Explanation Observation Claim Evidence #1 Evidence #2
Reasoning #1
Reasoning #2
Reasoning #3
Use “My dad is an alien” to fill out the chart.
You can also use Plate Tectonic

26. Use scenarios that are real to students
Who is the best vocal artist/sports figure/movie/etc.?
What time should you get up on the
weekend?
What is a reasonable allowance for a middle school student?
Mysteries “Who done it?”

27. Basic Requirements of Living Things

28. Another Claim/Evidence Chart – Basic Requirements of Living Things

29. Presentation discussion

30. Analyzing data

31. Learning about collecting data
Qualitative Observations:
Data I collect using by five senses (feeling, seeing, hearing, smelling, or tasting). I check with my teacher about tasting.
Record by writing descriptions, making sketches, taking photos, using video/audio, samples
Quantitative Observations:
Data I collect by taking measurements and by counting. Recorded using numbers. Need to be labeled.

32. Gradual Release – Collecting Data

33. Pillbugs

34. Collecting data on Pillbugs

35. What’s next

36. Head – Heart - Foot How has this touched your HEAD with a new idea?
How has this touched your HEART with a feeling?
How has this touched your FOOT with an action to take on something you learned?