Key Learning Objectives:
- What is a CER Conclusion
- What Makes a Complete Conclusion
- How to Write a CER Conclusion
- How You Set Up Debriefing and Sharing Conclusions Matters
- Tools: Motivation and Using Checkpoints and Concept Maps to Debrief Thinking
The focus of this article is on forming claim-evidence-reasoning (CER) conclusions and debriefing in NGSS Science - the fifth and last step in the KnowAtom lesson routine, and an important way to finish each lesson. When using the KnowAtom lesson routine, students discover phenomena, discuss it, and then try to answer a question or solve a problem related to it. With hands-on science instruction, students have the opportunity to be scientists and engineers, while they respond to real world problems and work together to solve them.
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