During the third week of school (second week of Sept.) we started our first unit called “Thinking like an Engineer”. \u00a0We spent time learning the difference between an Observation and an Inference and how to apply it in science activities. \u00a0We used a Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER) guided notes to write down observations, and use our observation as evidence to back up a scientific claim. \u00a0This was used in our cube activity that we did in class where students had to guess what was missing on the blank side of a cube. \u00a0After modeling level zero for the students we then moved on to level one which was a slightly harder cube. \u00a0We observed patterns and gathered evidence to explain why our claim is true. \u00a0Next week we will be working with groups learning how collaboration helps engineers build a circuit using a D-battery, copper wires, and a light bulb. \u00a0During this activity students will be writing down any observations they have and make any changes to their design. \u00a0Knowing how to make proper observations and inferences will help students with this next activity.<\/p>\n
We also spend a day setting up our ISN (interactive science notebook) with a table of contents, titles, and page numbers. \u00a0It is very important our students are well organized because these notebooks will serve as an important tool in keeping all of our work, notes, and used as a study tool. \u00a0If your child does not have a notebook for this class yet, please help them get one as we already started using them this week and will next week.<\/p>\n
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Students:<\/strong> Here is a copy of my reasoning section for the CER on cube Level 1. \u00a0Please make sure your reasoning sounds smilier to mine. \u00a0You need to include the location of the number, letter, or roman numeral (top right, bottom left, middle, etc.) as well as the color too. \u00a0Make sure you refer back to the patterns we observed and why they support the claim. \u00a0It helps to talk about one pattern or one number\/letter at a time just as we did in class.<\/p>\n My evidence supports my claim because we observed many different patterns. \u00a0Based on the order of a cube, the middle number is a red 6 because of the numbers 1 ,2, 3, 4,and 5 being visible. \u00a0We also noticed that odd middle numbers were a blue color and the even middle numbers were a red color which is why 6 should be red. \u00a0Another pattern we observed were that the black roman numerals that were located on the bottom left corner, all seemed to match the middle number. \u00a0Therefore if the middle number is a 6 then the roman numeral should be a black VI. \u00a0On all the faces of the cube at the top right were orange letters that were in alphabetical order starting at B, C, D, E, and F. \u00a0According to the alphabetical pattern, the letter A seems to be missing. \u00a0The letter A should be placed at the top right and it should be orange according to the rest of the cube\/pattern. \u00a0On the top left of the cube, all the faces have a black number that is divisible by 2. \u00a0It starts with 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32. \u00a0That pattern shows that 2×2=4, 2×4=8, 2×8=16, 2×16=32, therefore 2×32=64. \u00a0A black colored 64 should be at the top left of the cube because it fits in with the pattern that we observed. \u00a0Lastly, we have a missing green number at the bottom right of the cube based on the pattern on all the other faces. \u00a0One of the patterns supports that the missing green number should be a 58. \u00a0The pattern observed states that the top left number (64) – the middle number (6) = the bottom right (58).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During the third week of school (second week of Sept.) we started our first unit called “Thinking like an Engineer”. \u00a0We spent time learning the difference between an Observation and an Inference and how to apply it in science activities. \u00a0We used a Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER) guided notes to write down observations, and use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/khzouza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/khzouza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/khzouza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/khzouza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/khzouza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/khzouza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/khzouza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/khzouza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/khzouza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}