Knowledge/Skill Building
📝 CER Frames for Waste Claims
Content Expertise
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Effective Communication
5-ESS3-1
ESS.3.A
ESS.2.A
Submission Required
Students examine short teacher-curated examples from an I Love A Clean San Diego assembly note, a campus photo, and a brief Earth Day text excerpt to identify what counts as a claim, evidence, and reasoning. They use a simple evidence log to sort strong evidence from opinions and practice writing one claim about a campus waste problem with two pieces of starter evidence. Science vocabulary such as resource, waste, recycle, compost, and environment is added to a class word bank for later use.
Plan day
Day 4
Duration
45 min
Grouping
Pair
Steps
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