Inference and Observation Unit Plans Reviewed by Teachers

Columbus City Schools

Sedimentary Rocks

For Teachers 6th Standards

Turn your class discussion of rock formation from ho-hum to holy hornfels! Junior geologists gain experience in identifying rock types and rock origins, with an emphasis in hypothesizing the environment needed to form certain...

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Gwinnett County Public Schools

Analysis of the Tuck Everlasting and The Birchbark House Text Exemplars

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards

Looking to introduce some text-based questions into your ELA lessons? Practice the kinds of skills the Common Core demands with the seven text-based questions and the essay prompt provided here. Designed to be a three-day lesson, day one...

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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Observation vs. Inference

For Students 9th - 10th

A tutorial that explores the differences between scientific observation and scientific inference.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Question and Purpose

For Students 9th - 10th

This tutorial reviews over making observations to form questions and purpose for a lab experiment.

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Quizlet

Quizlet: Making Observations and Inferences: Flashcards

For Students 6th

A set of vocabulary practice flashcards over observations and inferences.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Mousie [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th

"Mousie" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a boy who caught, tamed, and learned about mice using a scientific method. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the...

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Descriptive vs. Comparative Investigations

For Students 9th - 10th

In the following lesson students will learn the differences between descriptive and comparative investigations.

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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Emily Dickinson & Poetic Imagination: "Leap, Plashless"

For Teachers 9th - 10th

This lesson introduces students to Emily Dickinson's poetry which often reveals a child-like fascination with the natural world. Students examine how she writes perceptively of butterflies, birds, and bats and uses lucid metaphors to...

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