12 Ways to Use Sort Cards in the Science Classroom Do you need some ways to use sort cards in the science room to get the students engaged while learning concepts? I used to believe that matching sort game cards were for the younger classes. Once I started using them with my middle school students,…
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Introduce your students to mass and pan balances without using gram numbers right away. First get them to understand that a balance is used to COMPARE two objects. Let them become human balances as they hold two objects, one in each hand, to try to determine which has the greater mass! Not so easy!
Can you figure out what happens next in this image? When following the NGSS MS-LS2 or 5-LS2 standards for studying ecosystems, animal and plant behavior, these full color, digital or printable, prompt photo task cards are very useful for using CER to explain the phenomenon of sequential events in nature. Each image has a question such as “what happened next?“ or “what may happen in the next 10 minutes?“. Students look at the given evidence in the photo and explain their reasoning. There can be many interpretations that get the students engaged and thinking.
There is a brief description for the teacher at the beginning of the slides to use as a prompt. I like to use my CER Templates while teaching with this product.
Boost Your Student’s Critical Thinking with CER in Science Class CER (Claim, Evidence, Reasoning) is a critical thinking framework that encourages students to analyze evidence and draw conclusions that are thorough and appropriate. I have pushed my students for years to think “out of the box“ while trying to pull data together. However, they have…
Let’s organize your science classroom using digital science notebooks and making them interactive! Use Google Slides to create a notebook with lab reports, drawings, interactive activities, graphing, Cornell notes and everything else needed for remote, distance learning or the classroom.
