Jacque Melin

Circle Map Scientific Inquiry

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

Scientific Inquiry

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

Scientific Inquiry Categories for the ideas you generated.

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?

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

Scientific Inquiry Categories for the ideas you generated.

The QPOE2 Model

A Three Year Plan

Year One Goal

Year 1 Content Questions

Year 1 Content Questions Continued

Goals & Agenda for the day

Habits of Mind Goal: Self-Direction

Day before - simulation

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?

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.

= Explanation

Claim: My Father is an Alien

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CER Graphic

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Claim

A claim answers the question or problem. It states what you (think) you know.

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My dad is an alien

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Air is matter

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The velocity is constant

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Evidence

your claim. Evidence comes from (Qualitative, Quantitative) observations.

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He has a spaceship

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An inflated ball weighs more than a “flat” ball.

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It covers the same distance in the same time.

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Evidence For Alien

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He speaks a weird language

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He drinks green stuff

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He says he’s from Albuquerque

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Just look at him…..

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He has a space ship.

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Reasoning

supports your claim.



Aliens fly spaceships

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Air has weight (mass), a property of matter.

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Objects traveling the same speed cover the same distance in the same time.

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CER = Explanation

Observation

Claim Evidence #1 Reasoning #1 Evidence #2 Reasoning #2 Evidence #3 Reasoning #3 25

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?”

Basic Requirements of Living Things

Another Claim/Evidence Chart – Basic Requirements of Living Things

Presentation discussion

Analyzing data

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.

Gradual Release – Collecting Data

Pillbugs

Collecting data on Pillbugs

What’s next

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?