Guided Notes and Student Practice Activities

Introducing and teaching the method of CER – claim, evidence and reasoning is not so easy. You are training the students to raise their level of critical thinking and to dig deep for evidence they can use to support a claim.

This activity explains the basics behind CER and then has instructions on how to use CER to analyze a lab and then an image writing prompt. On the basic overview of CER there are guided notes.

There are two activities for the students to practice their CER skills. The first one involves analyzing a lab and the second one has students viewing an image.