Scientific
Argumentation
{ Science
PD Sept. 2013
For your calendar:
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Oct. 14 – 25 (maybe longer): testing window for Science
District Benchmarks for grades 3-8 and HS Biology
Oct. 16: Vertical Articulation - Feeder schools meet at
each High School
Jan. 18: County Science Fair at Greenwood
Feb. 26: next PD like this one at your schools
(trainers will meet at GHS Feb.19)
The Phase III On-modules
*WCPS will require four modules to be completed during the 2013-14 school year. The following three
modules listed in *bold type and the fourth module will be teachers’ choice. Certified staff will need to
complete one module per quarter. The certificates will be turned in to the PD designee at each school.
Ten new modules are available to North Carolina educators in 2013–2014, all through the NC Education site:
Go On-line to NC Education: My home (GUEST) https://center.ncsu.edu/nc/my/
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Building and Sustaining Professional Development
*Data Literacy in Action* required, submit certificate of completion by Friday, 3-21-14 to your school
Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects, Part 2
Measures of Student Learning, Grades 9–12
Measures of Student Learning: Common Exams, Middle and Elementary Grades
NC Principal and Assistant Principal Evaluation: Understanding the Process
NC Teacher Evaluation: Understanding the Process
*Responsibilities of the 21st-Century Educator* required, submit certificate of completion by Friday, 1-17-14
to your school
21st-Century Mentoring
*Universal Design for Learning* required submit certificate of completion by Friday, 10-25-13 to your school
The fourth module (teacher’s choice) will need to be completed and certificate turned in by Friday, 5-30-14 at
your school
Chemical Hygiene Plan (CHP)
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Students with contacts should not remove
contacts before wearing safety goggles.
(I. B. 19. Contact lens wearers should be
provided with non-vented or indirect-vented
chemical splash goggles in the laboratory.)
Remember to flush eyewash stations weekly.
 Read the CHP—the whole thing!!!
(Compared to industry, accidents in school
labs are 100-1,000x more common.)
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You have ~3 minutes to
complete the following:
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In one sentence, describe how the school
year has gone for you so far.
With one or more sentences, cite evidence
to support your claim of how your year has
been going.
Argumentation ≠ Fighting
Ärgyəmən’tāSHən
noun
1. the action or process of reasoning systematically in
support of an idea, action, or theory.
"lines of argumentation used to support his thesis"
NGSS: Next Generation Science
Standards Scientific and Engineering Practices
1. Asking questions (for science) and defining
problems (for engineering)
2. Developing and using models
3. Planning and carrying out investigations
4. Analyzing and interpreting data
5. Using mathematics and computational thinking
6. Constructing explanations (for science) and
designing solutions (for engineering)
7. Engaging in argument from evidence
8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating
information
Cl-Ev-R
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Claim: a statement that answers a question
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Evidence: the data that supports a claim
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Reasoning: explains how and why evidence
supports the claim (hopefully using newfound science ideas!)
Take a look at the Cl-Ev-r handout
Poster version
Feedback template
Feedback template can be used for selfassessment, peer feedback, or teacher
feedback.
data and evidence:
students often confuse the two
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The data does not “speak”.
Something must be done with data to get
evidence.
data
reasoning
evidence
Cl-Ev-R and Formative probes
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Each school received a set of these seven
Page Keeley books last year.
DPI has produced a document that links
NC Essential Standards to each probe
within these books.
That PDF can be downloaded from your
teacher resources page on the WCPS
Science site
Task: get that PDF
1. Go to WCPS homepage
2. Click the “Instruction” tab
3. Find “Science” and click on it.
4. Click on “Teacher Resources” for your level
Science
…yum
here
or here
5. Click to download
Cl-Ev-R Formative Probe
Complete sections
1. and 2. of the
SWH template:
(from Keeley Vol. 2, page 41)
Making a probe concrete
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Use the stuff I give you to do an experiment
Fill out sections 3. and 4. of SWH
Safety goggles are
for losers.
Making a probe concrete
Do sections 5. and 6.
What effect did holes
have on floating?
Give an explanation
to support your claim
with evidence and
reasoning.
Sharing and comparing results
2 stay the others stray activity:
 Two members of your team
stay to study “external
sources”.
 The others moves to
collaborate with other class
members “internal sources”.
 Return and record your
findings.
Metacognition
What is SWH?
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Science Writing Heuristic
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a type of guided inquiry
a writing to learn strategy
promotes collaboration, learning, critical
thinking skills, communication, &
problem solving
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Why use SWH? NRC says:
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Students need to investigate
Students need to gain evidence for their
claims
Students need to compare their findings
to those of peers, others
Students need to communicate and
defend their findings
You do not really understand
something unless you can explain it
to your grandmother. Albert Einstein
SWH helps integrate
What’s so good about
integration?
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That’s how problems are solved in “the real world”.
It gives students a use for what you’re teaching.
It’s a treatment for student apathy.
MS/HS Writing portfolios
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Now required to contain 2 pieces of
science writing.
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