K-12 Resources
Instructional Leadership for Science Practices (ILSP
- This website is being 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.
- 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.
- This webpage includes assessments and rubrics for assessing students' abilities for argumentation across writing, reading and talking.
- This website includes sample lesson plans using the claim, evidence and reasoning (CER) framework developed by teachers in the Boston Public Schools for elementary, middle and high school students.
- This webpage includes resources related to science and literacy. If you scroll down the page, you will come to a heading - Practicing Argumentation through the Common Writing Assignment. i worked with the BPS science department and science teachers to develop claim, evidence and reasoning (CER) writing prompts for 4th - 8th grade.
Podcast
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
Professional Development: Justifying Claims with Evidence and Reasoning
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.