OpenSciEd Unit 8.1 · Lesson 09
Evidence for launcher energy transfer
MS-PS2-1MS-PS2-2Assessment opportunity · Formative assessment
From Teacher Edition
Facilitation guidance from the lesson plan — what to notice in student thinking and how to respond while teaching.
What to do
You can scaffold the activity to support students in identifying appropriate data and justifying their explanations with reasoning by providing sentence frames. This will help them organize data and observations and reference the science ideas they’ve figured out so far.
Referencing data
- When we did the ____ (description)______ investigation, the data showed that ___________.
- We saw _(description of the data)_ from our investigation.
Using science ideas
This means that __________ caused _________ (effect) because we know _(science idea)_.