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• Comprehension: In Level C, Writing in Science, students exhibit “evidence of knowing” by
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rephrasing information from the introductory text.
• Analysis: In Kepler Level C Math, students reveal “evidence of knowing” by examining light
brightness graphs in order to make inferences and conclusions about distant stars and planets.
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utilizing the planet table and making use of the provided information to solve the problems.
• Synthesis: In Kepler Level C Bringing It Home, students show “evidence of knowing” by
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work completed at home and to assess students’ understanding.
If you have more time:
• Encourage students to share their work from the Bringing It Home activity in small groups.
• For older students, encourage comparing and contrasting of the different Kepler models that students created
at home.
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• Ask students to think beyond the Weekly Lab. What other questions related to Kepler could students
investigate using the same materials, or other materials on hand in the classroom? In small groups, ask
students to plan and carry out an additional investigation.
• When students share their investigations and results with the class, encourage them to ask one another
questions. (Why did you do it that way? What did you think would happen? Did anything happen that
surprised you?)
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hear, taste and smell) as possible to illustrate so that students experience the “meaning”, ways of
speaking and reasoning.
• Incorporate the strategy of “talk moves” in your classroom conversations. That is, help students
relate familiar, everyday ways of speaking and reasoning to more unfamiliar and scientific ways of
speaking and reasoning.
In the Kepler issue, you might:
• Use cooperative groups to discuss stories students have heard from family members about space,
planets, falling stars, men from mars, and spaceships.
• Ask students to help others better understand their stories by using forms of art, dramatizations and
music.
• Then, have students correlate what they bring to the learning environment to what they have learned
in the Kepler unit.
• Ask students to use their imagination to create another planet where people exist in a peaceful, just
and fair world where there is no lack.
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