Review driving question progress

Revisiting the Driving Question Board provides a low-stakes moment for students to apply their ideas to real-world questions. As students are working, use this opportunity for formative assessment and listen to group discussions about what we can and cannot answer. Students should be able to answer questions regarding the items listed on the What We Have Discovered poster.

Students are also asked to record one answer using evidence for a question of their choice on the bottom of Reviewing Our Driving Question Board. Read over these answers as students are constructing them. If students are struggling, see the questions provided in the next section to also aid students in making connections between their key science ideas and a new scenario.

Circulate the room as students work in pairs to answer a question from the Driving Question Board. Listen carefully to student answers and listen for students to use science ideas to support their answers. If students are not using their science ideas to fully answer questions, use questioning to help students make the connection to their science ideas:

What evidence do we have from past investigations that supports your answer?

What patterns in past investigations and activities led you to that idea?

What patterns in data support your answer?

Did we collect any other data or evidence besides the piece you cited that helps support your answer?

Is there anything on our What We Have Discovered poster that helps you answer this question?

Did you see something change in our system as two objects interact in a previous investigation or activity that supports this answer? What happened?