I was in the hall minding my own business (chasing 6th graders out of my room that want to use my computers!), when I heard a group of students complaining that I'm making them write claims, then provide evidence and then I'm making them write DEEP meanings or reasons for the evidence and claim! So I went back to my room and I asked myself: why am I teaching this stuff??? And then a light surrounded me.... That's when I remembered! I want to teach my students how to be scientists or engineers. They need to experience science in an orderly way, not just playing with dry ice or making fun marble runs, but to act like a scientist or an engineer! The skills I teach them in 6th grade will help them through out all their years in high school and college. Someday one of my students might engineer the largest rocket engine in the world that will send astronauts to the vast reaches of our universe, or one of my students may cure all the cancers in the world!!! My students will be able to create, evaluate, and analyze all at the same time. It's all because I taught them how to make a claim, look for evidence and then create a reason that will change other people's minds about what they saw, or did or will do! It's all about STEM: Claim-Evidence and Reasoning fit perfectly with this dream of students becoming scientists or engineers! (Making pretty good money, may I add!) Wait!!! This is kind of like a bad dream...all this information...can't process.... That's when I woke up and discovered this was all a dream. I just teach 6th graders. They have dreams of their own, football players, soccer, dancers, dentists and Hawaiian beach bums.
I guess the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning skill is a very valuable tool to help students organize their thinking and a format to help them write down what students see and think. I will stay on course, I bet these kids don't even know they are learning a new skill? Possibly CER will open their minds to new ways to communicate!! Well, back to work....
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OLIVER ROPER
3/19/2019 03:38:51 pm
First! Someday I'll be too LIT for science. He hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe!
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aaron
3/19/2019 04:12:48 pm
all very true!!!
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italia
3/19/2019 04:20:11 pm
my.....brain..........can't...........process.
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your mom
3/19/2019 04:23:30 pm
the person crying was soo true hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehhehehehehehehehe.
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Sebastian Lei
3/19/2019 04:24:49 pm
i love that kids face (the one that's swinging
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Sebastian Lei
3/19/2019 04:25:15 pm
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danny araya
3/19/2019 05:08:16 pm
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kajetan
3/19/2019 08:02:55 pm
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kajetan
3/19/2019 08:06:59 pm
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Alice Watson
3/19/2019 08:24:09 pm
I love the picture of all the kids going crazy in the classroom!!!!
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Marcus Besaw
3/19/2019 08:26:17 pm
On the left there's a kid throwing a chair in the last meme.
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cooper ihler
3/19/2019 09:06:09 pm
A lot of that was bogus.
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Andrew
3/19/2019 09:13:10 pm
I think the kids are going crazy because they have a substitute.
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Bob
3/19/2019 09:14:25 pm
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Michael Mandaa
3/19/2019 09:17:10 pm
I think we should choose if we do science or not
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Ryker Bement
3/19/2019 09:24:42 pm
Too bad that science is more than just playing around with dry ice and other things like that.
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Michael Mandaa
3/19/2019 09:30:32 pm
I don't think this does not help us with science. You are telling us why claim-evidence-reasoning helps us.
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Aaron
3/20/2019 03:50:10 pm
First!! take that oliver
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michael mandaa
3/20/2019 04:31:40 pm
last. the kid swing looks like he ate to much sugar
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michael mandaa
3/20/2019 04:32:17 pm
look at dis dude
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danny
3/20/2019 04:52:43 pm
first haha
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Michaeel mandaa
3/20/2019 05:08:02 pm
Nah A A ron was first
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kajetan
3/20/2019 06:47:34 pm
rip in the chat for micheal
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Audrey
3/20/2019 06:54:57 pm
Those kids went LOCO!!
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Marcus Besaw
3/20/2019 08:24:42 pm
I thought a light surrounds you when you die.
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cooper ihler
3/20/2019 08:28:21 pm
I love hump day.
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OLIVER ROPER
3/20/2019 08:36:48 pm
Happy hump day and it is Wednesday my dudes and dudets! That LIT thing has been trademarked! Hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe hehehe!
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Michael Mandaa
3/20/2019 08:47:11 pm
bruder u commented so late
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Michael Mandaa
3/20/2019 08:48:22 pm
y u look like a crocodile , with the raggedy cane
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