These CER activities are designed to get kids practicing CER, not learning content. No prior content knowledge is required. Students are able to make a claim based on the information in the text and data table alone.
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CER Set #1 Topics: fertilizer and apples, car speed and ramp angle, fish growth and acidity, gravity and astronaut blood pressure, diet and blood iron levels, guitar strings and note sustain, peacock tail feathers and protein in food, tides and moon phases
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CER Set #2 Topics: deforestation and orangutans, car speed and stopping distance, star surface temperature and brightness, straws in the ocean and marine mammals, planet distance from the Sun and length of year, density of real gold and fake gold, sleep hours and reaction time, air pressure and altitude
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CER Set #3 Topics: materials that make good insulators, cricket chirps and temperature, vaping and lung damage, atmospheric carbon dioxide over time, classifying objects as planets, gravitational potential energy and height, age of ocean floor and distance from mid-ocean ridge, DNA base pairs
