CER Claim Evidence Reasoning Practice

Are you trying to implement the CER science strategy into your classroom but need more example worksheets for your students master writing about their scientific explanations? This claim, evidence, and reasoning lesson includes ten practice CER videos or readings for students to identify a claim, identify supporting evidence, and write an explanation using scientific reasoning.

Like this claim, evidence, reasoning lesson? Get started using CER in your classroom with this introductory lesson. Click here to see more.

Students will:

• Identify a claim based on watching a video or reading a short passage
• Support their claim with evidence based on observations from a video or details from the reading passage
• Explain their thinking through scientific reasoning

This lesson includes:

• Sneak Peek into My Classroom: Two pages of ideas and tips on how to use this resource in your classroom. Includes Youtube links to four videos that are used.
• Digital link to the Google Slide version of the worksheet, which can easily be distributed through your learning management system such as Google Classroom, Schoology, etc
• 12 activities for students to demonstrate their CER claim, evidence, and reasoning learning. Students will answer on printable student response graphic organizers or worksheets
• Blank template - Use to create your own CER activities
• Answer key

How to use this activity in your classroom:

• After introducing the CER claim, evidence, and reasoning strategy to your students, use these activities to practice each step of the strategy.
• Use the 12 activities as a whole class activity, science stations, or emergency sub plans.
• Activities can be used at the beginning of the year after introducing the science writing strategy. Then continue using the examples throughout the year. These activities are great to use before holiday breaks as a way to keep students engaged.

Feedback from teachers who have used these CER practice sheets in classrooms:

• Print and go! It was so easy, and there are SO many options for you to pick from. It was great to introduce this, and then I'll come back to some of the other prompts as a review with practice later in the year! I've taught CER for the last 5 years, and this, by far, was the most effective and engaging resource for doing so!
• My students used this product to practice writing CER in science. We used it during whole group lessons, small groups, and independent work.
• I used this to introduce claims, evidence, and reasoning with my 5th graders. They thought it was so fun and engaging! They really understood. Thank you so much!
• SO HELPFUL! I really enjoyed using this with my students. They liked the different approaches to the CER information (like reading or watching a video), and they were quite engaged!

Science units you might be interested in:

• Atoms and Elements
• Chemical and Physical Changes
• Magnets
• Newton's Laws of Motion
• Periodic Table of Elements
• Simple Machines
• States of Matter
• Human Body System Unit
• Plant and Animal Cell Unit
• Microscope
• Microorganisms
• Ecology and Ecosystem
• Weathering and Erosion
• Rocks and Minerals
• Moon and Lunar Cycle
• Tides and Eclipses
• Earth's Rotation and Revolution
• Solar Systems and Planets

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