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K-12 Resources

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OpenSciEd
  • This website includes high-quality, open-scource middle school curriculum materials and professional learning materials.
Instructional Leadership for Science Practices (ILSP)
  • This website was developed and revised over 2014-2018. It includes resources to support the successful integration of the 8 science practices in NGSS into k-8 classrooms. 
Argumentation Toolkit 
  • This website includes resources, including a library of videos, to support teachers in integrating argumentation into their classroom instruction. The resources are structured around four elements that students need support with: 1. Using high quality evidence, 2. Providing strong reasoning, 3. Considering multiple competing claims, and 4. Building off and critiquing each other's ideas. 
Scientific Argument Assessments for Middle School Students 
  • This webpage includes assessments and rubrics for assessing students' abilities for argumentation across writing, reading and talking.

Podcast

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Podcast on NGS Navigators - CER in the NGSS Classroom
  • The Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning (CER) model of argumentation is used in many science classrooms. Dr. Kate McNeill shares with us today tips, strategies, and tools that enhance this science and engineering practice of Engaging in Argument with Evidence.
Podcast on NSTA's Lab Outloud about CER 
  • In this podcast, Dr. Kate McNeill and Dr. Joe Krajcik introduce the claim, evidence and reasoning (CER) framework and discuss it as a teaching tool in relation to the science practices in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

Preservice and Professional Development Resources

 Professional Development: Argumentation in History and Science
  • This webpage includes agendas and resources for professional development I conducted in the Newton Public Schools around claim, evidence and reasoning (CER) for middle school science and social studies teachers in 2012-2013

Professional Development: Justifying Claims with Evidence and Reasoning 
  • This webpage includes the agendas and resources for professional development I conducted in the Boston Public Schools around claim, evidence, and reasoning (CER) for elementary, middle and high school science teachers from 2009-2012

Books

  • These two books and the associated facilitator guide's were written to be used with pre-service and in-service teachers to support them in integrating the CER framework into their instruction. They each include a DVD with videos of k-8 instruction.
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 McNeill, K. L. & Krajcik, J. (2012). Supporting grade 5-8 students in constructing explanations in science: The claim, evidence and reasoning framework for talk and writing. New York, NY: Pearson Allyn & Bacon.

McNeill, K. L. & Krajcik, J. (2012). Book study facilitator's guide: Supporting grade 5-8 students in constructing explanations in science: The claim, evidence and reasoning framework for talk and writing. New York, NY: Pearson Allyn & Bacon.

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 Zembal-Saul, C., McNeill, K. L., & Hershberger, K. (2013). What's your evidence?  Engaging k-5 students in constructing explanations in science. New York, NY: Pearson Allyn & Bacon.

Zembal-Saul, C., McNeill, K. L., & Hershberger, K. (2013). Book study facilitator's guide: What's your evidence?  Engaging k-5 students in constructing explanations in science. New York, NY: Pearson Allyn & Bacon. 

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