REMOTE LEARNING: CLAIM , EVIDENCE, REASONING (CER) INTRODUCTION

This lesson does include both the teacher slides to do with your students (synchronous learning) and the student “digital interactive notebook” slides for the kids to do along with you. This could also be done asynchronously by adding some of the teacher slide instructions to the student slides. You also get the DO Now for students and even the learning target for the day. So you are all set!

Make sure to scroll down to the bottom for a video preview of the lesson.

The breakdown below is just of the student “digital interactive notebook” slides:

Title Slide

Slide 1: Do Now- Students watch a commercial and write down what they think the evidence and the claim of the commercial are. Students also write down the learning target for the day.

Slide 2: Write a CER-Students are given a graphic organizer to fill out as the whole class debriefs about the commercial. The teacher slides walk the students through each part of the CER, using the commercial as an example. Students will be able to come back to this example later in the lesson as well as the year.

Slide 3-4: Commercial CER- Students are given 3 different videos of commercials to choose from. They will fill out the same graphic organizer on their own this time for the commercial of their choice. You can debrief as a whole class or individually with students later on.

Slide 5-7: What’s in the teacher’s bag?- A bunch of “items” have fallen out of the “teacher’s” bag and students must use those items to fill out he 6 CER statements about the teacher. You can delete my example items and come up with your own so that the students get to know you, or use the ones I provided. I did throw in some extra items that are not relevant to the 6 statements to reinforce the facts that not EVERY pieces of data is relevant to the question you are answering.

Slide 8: What’s in my bag?- Students will now create their own “bag” with 6 items in it that tells us about themselves. Students will also create 6 sentence stems that they want us to complete using the items in the bag. I would then suggest that students are broken into small “breakout” session and the group creates CER statements for each person. I suggest using goggle jamboard for each group, but you could also assign each group a google doc, slide, sheet etc. It just needs to be something that they can all see and type their statements on and then type the evidence and the reasoning next to the claim. Each group can then submit their 1 assignment.