CER Claim Evidence Reasoning Activities Posters and Worksheets

Are you trying to implement CER into your science classroom and unsure where to start? These claim, evidence, reasoning materials will walk you through introducing CER to your students using teacher tips pages, ideas for practicing with your students, student reference sheets, scaffolded classroom decor posters, a graphic organizer, and a rubric to assess student writing.

Are you looking for more practice writing CER responses? Check out this resource that includes ten student activities. Click here to learn more.

Students will be able to:

• Demonstrate their knowledge of scientific principles through crafted writing responses
• Utilize the claim, evidence, reasoning formula to summarize their understanding of science activities, classroom discussions, and real-life scenarios

CER resources include:

• Teacher tips pages: Explanation of how to implement this writing strategy in your science classroom
• Classroom poster: Claim, evidence, reasoning poster sized at 18" x 24" (Directions to print 8.5" x 11" posters to a larger size)
• Scaffolded posters: Various posters sized at 8.5" x 11" which include the terms claim, evidence, reasoning as well as a definition and examples
• Formula poster: Sized at 8.5" x 11" will walk students through writing a thorough response.
• Practice examples: Ideas to use 5 real-life examples with your students
• Student reference sheets: Perfect to put in a student science notebook
• Student graphic organizer: Use with students as they are learning about the strategy or hand out to struggling students who need a differentiated approach
• Digital Google Slides version of the organizers and examples
• Rubric: Assess student responses using the rubric

How to use the CER Writing strategy in your classroom:

• Introduce this strategy on the first days of school. Instructions are included to teach you how to do this.
• Strengthen student analysis and writing skills using this strategy while working on hands on activities and labs.
• Assessment to demonstrate understanding of science concepts.

Teacher feedback:

• This resource is perfect for teaching students how to write scientific arguments with evidence. It pairs nicely with my adopted science curriculum.
• My students used this as an individual anchor to refer to when using the CER writing in Science. My students and I found this resource helpful, especially for students who are new to this strategy. Several of them kept referring back to the chart to check their responses.
• Of all the CER products I looked at, this one seemed to be the most thorough.
• There were some helpful tips on how to start teaching CER. I liked the suggested videos to help students get better at applying CER to daily situations.
• I love that this resource provides multiple ways to use the material, and it is very clear! It lines up perfectly with what I'm currently teaching, and there is a rubric!!

This resource will help your NGSS aligned units.

Science units you might be interested in:

• Atoms and Elements
• Chemical and Physical Changes
• Electricity
• Potential Kinetic and Forms of Energy Unit
• Magnets
• Force and 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
• Watershed
• Oil Spill STEM Activity
• Moon and Lunar Cycle
• Tides and Eclipses
• Earth's Rotation and Revolution
• Characteristics and Life Cycle of a Star
• Star Systems and Galaxies
• Solar Systems and Planets

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