8th Grade Science Guide

PRIORITIZED DISCIPLINARY LITERACY SCAFFOLDS FOR SCIENCE Graphic Organizers, Rubrics, and other Tools to Support Students

CER (Claim, Evidence, Reasoning) is a scaffold for writing about science. It allows student to think about data in an organized, thorough manner. Sentence stems and paragraph frames are great scaffolds to help students with their writing. The LABS protocol helps students make sense of Lab data through a student talk protocol. Use instead of asking students to answer lab questions independently or in a group. Determining Roles for Lab Investigations can help lab groups stay focused. It is recommended that lab groups be no more than 4 students. D-TAILLS is an acronym and protocol for creating a graph. LENSES is a protocol that helps students read and analyze data in a graph or data table. tools and resources that can help scaffold students through the Developing & Using Models process.

Writing

CER Supports and Templates

Science Sentence Stems Paragraph Frames

Inquiry (Labs, Analyzing Data, Modeling)

LABS Debrief Protocol Poster LABS Debrief Slide Deck Roles for Investigations

D-TAILLS Protocol & Rubric

LENSES Protocol

Modeling Toolkit Modeling How to/Templates & Slides Sample - Food Poisoning Sample - Shattering Glass Blank Template Talk Science Teacher Cards

Speaking & Listening

Talk Science STEM Teacher Cards - provide sentence stems for teacher to promote deeper thinking.